WorkflowEngine

Author(s)

• Florian Chiaruzzi

Tags

Workflow Automation Parallel Pipeline Orchestration Tasks CI-CD DevOps Debugging ETL DataProcessing BatchProcessing Deployment BuildAutomation

Functions

New-Workflow New-WorkflowStep

PSEditions

Desktop

Dependencies

This module has no dependencies.

Release Notes

           
## 1.0.2 - Bug Fixes & API Improvements
### Fixed
- Fixed Unicode encoding issues in interactive mode (replaced box-drawing characters with ASCII)
- Fixed parallel group detection and visual display in interactive menu
- Fixed API consistency: New-WorkflowStep function now properly exported for module users
- Synchronized standalone script with module version

### Changed
- All examples updated to use New-WorkflowStep instead of [WorkflowStep]::new() for better module compatibility

## 1.0.1 - Project Link fix

## 1.0.0 - Initial Release
### Core Features
- Sequential workflow execution with automatic ordering
- Parallel execution using efficient runspace pools (4x faster than jobs)
- Conditional steps with runtime condition evaluation
- Step dependency management for complex workflows

### Error Handling & Reliability
- Configurable retry logic at both step and workflow levels
- Step timeouts to prevent runaway operations
- ContinueOnError mode for fault-tolerant workflows
- Comprehensive error reporting and logging

### Developer Experience
- Interactive execution mode - select and run specific steps interactively
- Context sharing between steps for data passing
- Detailed execution summaries with timing information
- Extensive examples covering all features (9 examples + real-world scenarios)

### Performance
- Runspace pool-based parallel execution
- Configurable parallelism limits
- Efficient context synchronization

See full documentation and examples at: https://github.com/someoneelse131/powershell-workflow-engine