Problem
Workflow Groups (configured under App > Settings > Workflows > Groups in Studio Pro) cannot be created, listed, or modified through mxcli. They are project-level settings — peers to UserEntity and DefaultTaskParallelism — but are missing from ALTER SETTINGS WORKFLOWS and DESCRIBE SETTINGS.
This blocks fully scripted project setup, since workflow user tasks reference these groups for assignment.
Workflow Groups are GA from Mendix 11.6 onwards.
Current State
ALTER SETTINGS WORKFLOWS
UserEntity = 'Administration.Account',
DefaultTaskParallelism = 3,
WorkflowEngineParallelism = 5;
-- No way to define groups here
Proposed Syntax
-- List groups
SHOW WORKFLOW GROUPS;
-- Add a group
ALTER SETTINGS WORKFLOWS ADD GROUP 'Approvers' DESCRIPTION 'Primary approval group';
-- Modify a group
ALTER SETTINGS WORKFLOWS ALTER GROUP 'Approvers' DESCRIPTION 'New description';
-- Remove a group
ALTER SETTINGS WORKFLOWS DROP GROUP 'Approvers';
-- Include in DESCRIBE SETTINGS output for round-tripping
Why It Matters
Without this, developers must switch to Studio Pro to define groups, breaking automated scaffolding, CI/CD pipelines, and migration scripts.
Problem
Workflow Groups (configured under App > Settings > Workflows > Groups in Studio Pro) cannot be created, listed, or modified through mxcli. They are project-level settings — peers to
UserEntityandDefaultTaskParallelism— but are missing fromALTER SETTINGS WORKFLOWSandDESCRIBE SETTINGS.This blocks fully scripted project setup, since workflow user tasks reference these groups for assignment.
Workflow Groups are GA from Mendix 11.6 onwards.
Current State
Proposed Syntax
-- List groups
SHOW WORKFLOW GROUPS;
-- Add a group
ALTER SETTINGS WORKFLOWS ADD GROUP 'Approvers' DESCRIPTION 'Primary approval group';
-- Modify a group
ALTER SETTINGS WORKFLOWS ALTER GROUP 'Approvers' DESCRIPTION 'New description';
-- Remove a group
ALTER SETTINGS WORKFLOWS DROP GROUP 'Approvers';
-- Include in DESCRIBE SETTINGS output for round-tripping
Why It Matters
Without this, developers must switch to Studio Pro to define groups, breaking automated scaffolding, CI/CD pipelines, and migration scripts.