Plug-in 或Workflow的使用時機

Plug-in 或Workflow的使用時機常讓人搞混，在此利用表格做區分，讓設計時能夠一目了然要使用Plug-in 或Workflow…

 
 

Requirement	Plug-in	Workflow
Needs a synchronous action to happen before or after an event occurs	x
The same piece of logic will be executed for different events and possibly on different entities	x	x
The logic needs to be executed while offline	x
Needs elevation of privileges (impersonation)	x
Needs to execute on events other than assign, create, update, setstate	x
The process/logic may take a long time to complete or will be a persistent process (multiple long running steps)		x
Needs an asynchronous action	x	x
End users will need to modify the process logic		x
Child sub processes will be triggered		x