By Dileepkumar Adari on 2025-08-01 10:32 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Report Period: July 28 - August 01, 2025

The Twelfth Workflow Enhancements project review meeting was held on August 01, 2025. The meeting was attended by Benjamin Trenkle, Dileep Adari and Christiane Maier-Stadtherr. It focused on refactoring, UI improvements, accessibility changes, and toolbar standardization.

What has been done throughout the week

• July 28:
  • Completed previously pending tasks.
  • Refactored existing workflow codebase for improved readability and maintainability.

• July 29, 30:
  • Replaced inline toolbar buttons (undo, redo, shortcuts) with FileLayout-based toolbar templates for better consistency.
  • Updated Titlebar.vue styles to align with design standards.
  • Added  the keyboard navigation to the menu dropdown and also the reader.
  • Cleared the existing accessibility issues from the tool.
  • Removed all the external js files from the main files and seperated them to the other files.
• July 31:
  • Updated the category transition plugin to the latest version and made some required changes in functionality.
  • Satrted with the next task article modal and designed the initial version of how to show the graph.
• August 01: 
  • Met with mentors to gather feedback and define the upcoming tasks.
  • Addressed review comments:
    • Removed the deprecated funcions from the repo, which are causing the actions to fail.
    • cleared some of the spelling mistakes and readability issues.
    • Changed some of the colors of the elements.

Planned for Next Week:

• Edit the layout of the global toolbar to include a graph button beside the transition field in article page.
• Complete the Dialog display of the aticle page for the workflow graph for users who are not admins.
• Clear all existing issues in the workflow graph dileep branch and make it ready for review.
• Clear all the accessibilty issues.