[Zope-CMF] Switching workflow causes affected objects to change state?

[Hamish Lawson]

Should switching the workflow associated with a portal type cause any 
affected objects to change state, even if the new workflow supports all 
the states provided by the previous workflow?

I defined a workflow based on plone_workflow, called shared_workflow, 
and associated it with all my types, including Folder. Some while later 
I realised that I shouldn't have used this workflow also for folders, as 
the permissions that need to be managed for a folder are different from 
a non-folder type. I therefore defined another workflow, 
shared_folder_workflow, this time based on folder_workflow. However when 
I associated shared_folder_workflow with the Folder type, any folders 
that had been in the visible state changed to being in the published 
state, the initial state for shared_folder_workflow, even though 
shared_folder_workflow supports the visible state.

I'm using Plone 1.0.5 with CMF 1.3.2.


Hamish Lawson
University of St Andrews, Scotland