Elsa Workflows is a workflow execution platform for automating tasks and coordinating business processes within applications. It supports workflows that complete quickly as well as processes that pause for external input and resume later, making it suitable for approvals, scheduled operations and event-driven automation.
Workflows may be authored through a visual interface or defined programmatically. The workflow runtime can be hosted in an application or accessed through a server, while Elsa Studio provides browser-based design and administration. Its architecture separates workflow definitions from individual execution instances.
A workflow can wait at a bookmark until an external event arrives, avoiding continuous execution while an approval or callback is outstanding. The design is useful for processes that span hours or days without losing their state. Activities can also pass output values to later workflow steps.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Visual workflow designer with drag-and-drop activities and configurable properties.
- Workflow definitions using code, visual models or JSON representations.
- Sequential, conditional, looped and parallel activity execution.
- Long-running workflow instances with suspension, persistence and resumption.
- HTTP endpoints, API requests, timers, scheduled triggers and message-handling activities.
- Custom activities for integrating application-specific operations and services.
- Expressions and dynamic values for configuring workflow inputs and decisions.
- Versioning, publishing and management of workflow definitions.
- Workflow instance monitoring with execution status and variable inspection.
- Persistence options including relational databases and MongoDB.
- Integration with messaging infrastructure and external applications.
- Administrative interface for viewing and managing workflows and their executions.
Website: github.com/elsa-workflows/elsa-core
Support:
Developer: Elsa Workflows contributors
License: MIT License
Elsa Workflows is written in C#. Learn C# with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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