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Use when building a Django app with the Viewflow library — workflows (BPMN), CRUD viewsets, FSM state transitions, jsonstore process data, or Viewflow forms. Loads Viewflow conventions and the full docs.

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Building with Viewflow

Viewflow is a low-code library for Django. It adds workflows (BPMN), CRUD, forms, and reporting on top of normal Django models and views.

How to use this skill

  1. Fetch https://docs.viewflow.io/llms-full.txt — the whole documentation in one file. Search it before guessing an API. It is the source of truth.
  2. For a quick orientation, fetch https://docs.viewflow.io/AGENTS.md.
  3. Follow the conventions below.

Conventions

  • Install: pip install django-viewflow. Add "viewflow" (and "viewflow.workflow" for workflows) to INSTALLED_APPS.
  • Workflows are flow.Flow subclasses; wire nodes with this.<name>. Store process data in viewflow.jsonstore fields on a proxy Process model — no per-field migrations.
  • Mount with Site/Application viewsets, not hand-written URL patterns.
  • For state transitions without the workflow engine, use viewflow.fsm.State and @state.transition(source=..., target=...). The target state is set before the method body runs and rolls back on exception.
  • A transition permission is a query, not a gate: the method runs regardless. Check flow.<transition>.has_perm(user) in the view and raise PermissionDenied.
  • Workflow permissions are view_<model> and manage_<model>; canceling a process needs manage.
  • Don't edit viewflow/ in the open-source repo — it is generated.

Examples

See https://docs.viewflow.io/AGENTS.md for minimal flow, URL, and FSM examples, and https://github.com/viewflow/cookbook for full sample projects.