Extension:FlowchartWiki

Flowchartwiki is an extension to MediaWiki for creating flowcharts from the links between wikipages in a category to support process modelling and process documentation in MediaWiki. This simplifies the self-organizing of teams and processes.

Each process-step is a wikipage and based on the tagged links between the wikipages and a type assigned to a wikipage, a flowchart diagram is created automatically. This keeps the diagram always up to date and reduces manual maintenance. The Diagram itself is clickable to simplify the navigation in the wiki. A hierarchy of Processes is supported.

In comparison to popular office software, all users of the wiki can simultaneously access the process model and keep it up to date.

New in 1.1.0-RC6

 * updated cacheing of images, added "?Timestamp= " to image-tag of graph images in order to remove the requirement to press "shift-reload" in the browser to see the updated image.
 * Database table access now uses Mediawiki DB-Prefix. (Thanks to J.R.M.)
 * Updated special page CheckFchw to show a graph created by graphviz for testing graphviz.

Usage
How MediaWiki can be used to model processes:
 * Process = Category Page
 * Process-Step = Wiki Page
 * tagged Wiki-Links
 * Result: clickable graph

By adding a few special tags to category and wiki pages, a graph is created from the links between these pages.

Add these tags to a category page:  ModelType::Process
 * The CategoryBrowser tag creates and displays the clickable flowchart on the category page.
 * The Modeltype tag selects the type of diagrams used for the process (fully customizable).

Add these tags to the individual wikipage (besides the usual Category Tag).  NextStep::Download



Type::ProcessStep PageName::Different_Name_in_Graph Level::100
 * The  tag creates and displays the flowchart on the wikipage and highlights the current page in the graph.
 * tags the link to the "Download" wikipage in the process.
 * The  tag is a special version of "What links here" and shows a list of links from and to this page - including the type of the links.
 * defines the type of this process step and determines the shape type and color used in the graph. The shape types and colors are customizable.
 * is optional and overrides the default usage of the Name of the WikiPage with the "Different_Name_in_Graph".
 * is a hint to the graphing-algorithm (graphviz) on where to place the process step in the graph.

Download instructions
Downloads are available from sourceforge.net. For prerequisites (Graphviz) please also check the project website at http://www.flowchartwiki.org.

Installation
Installation and upgrading instructions can be found on flowchartwiki.org.