Expressions

 Expressions in DCWorkflow are TALES expressions. See 
 "TALES Overview":/Control_Panel/Products/PageTemplates/Help/tales.stx
 for general TALES information. They are used as access guards and for
 the setting variable values. 
 
 [**Note:** I haven't figured out what all these contexts actually are
 and what you can use them for. Explanations are is welcome!]

 Some of the contexts have slightly different meanings from what is provided
 for expressions in page templates:

  'here' -- The content object (rather than the workflow object)
  'container' -- The content object's container

 Several other contexts are also 
 provided:

  'state_change' -- A special object containing information about the
  state change (see below)
  'transition' -- The transition object being executed
  'status' -- The former status
  'workflow' -- The workflow definition object
  'scripts' -- The scripts in the workflow definition object

 'state_change' objects provide the following attributes, some of which
 are duplicates of the above information:

   - 'status' is a mapping containing the workflow status. This
   includes all the variables defined in the variable tab with "store
   in state" checked.

   - 'object' is the object being modified by workflow.
     (Same as the 'here' variable above.)

   - 'workflow' is the workflow definition object.  (Same as the
   'workflow' variable above.)
  
   - 'transition' is the transition object being executed.  (Same
   as the 'transition' variable above.)

   - 'old_state' is the former state object.  The name of the former state,
   for example "published", is available as 'old_state.getId()'.  (Note
   that DCWorkflow defines 'state' and 'status' as different entities;
   the name of the current 'state' is stored in the 'status'.  The word
   clash is unfortunate; patches welcome.)

   - 'new_state' is the destination state object.  Use 'new_state.getId()'
   to access the new state name.

   - 'kwargs' is the keyword arguments passed to the doActionFor() method.

   - 'getHistory()', a method that returns a copy of the object's workflow
   history.

   - 'getPortal()', which returns the root of the portal.

   - 'ObjectDeleted' and 'ObjectMoved', exceptions that can be raised by
   scripts to indicate to the workflow that an object has been moved or
   deleted.

   - 'getDateTime' is a method that returns the DateTime of the transition.