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Can the size of attachment icons be changed in Webcon? I would like to enlarge the icons. See the attachment.

How to import files from a folder into the Webcon application. It's not about using the HotFolder functionality. Do you have any ideas?

I would like to send an email with a link to the client. Clicking on the link signifies ACCEPTANCE. Such acceptance would trigger a transition path in WEBCON. How can this be done? Do you have any ideas? The client is an external user.

I would like to conduct tests in the context of a specific user, using their permissions as an example. How do you do this?

MVP

Hi, sometimes when trying to import an older .bpe package you might encounter error message like this: "The version of the import package does not match the installed WEBCON BPS version.". It's somewhat helpful, we know the reason, but we don't know the version of the package, in case we would like to be able to use it there is a need to setup an environment with that specific version, and update it. So how do we find a version number in .bpe package? First let's start with extracting it (...)

MVP

Hi, in case you have choose fields, which reference information from another workflow you should prevent the user from entering special characters. Example: A subworkflow is linked to a parent workflow with a choose field and uses the Title field as the display name. If a user enters ; or # in the value of the field, this will break the choose field logic. The system will be interpreted as a delimiter for a new choose field. This can be achieved by using a regular expression. RegEx (...)

Hello all, I'm trying to copy the HTML code from the company's sharepoint for the News page. I've tried many ways but the layout changes when I try to add it in the dashboard and even trying to select the margins, it doesn't fit in the page, like I just want to check the first 5 news and get a scroll. Maybe I'm asking for too much, but do you have any ideas? Thank you

Hi Is there possible to set a rule or something else, so that you can only add one item in an item list? And if a user tries to "Add" a new item (2nd item) to set an alert ...? Thanks.

MVP

Hi everyone, maybe you have read the change log of the latest version and come across the new action and it's description: This action adds all rows from the specified Data source to the indicated Item list, without checking for duplicates, but taking into account the values specified in the Columns mapping section. Executing this action may result in duplicate rows of the Item list. As I encountered the described implications, I wanted to stress this, as the current action may (...)

Hi everybody, has anybody an idea how I could manage to make (copy) out of a base64 type picture field an attachment for a bunch of instances? I.e. I have an QR code within my workflow instance as picture field. But I need to export it for external use. Kind regards Klaus

Hello, I need to set up two columns to calculate some KPIs for a report. The first one will show the status based on Case statement and date difference: (select case when DATEDIFF(day,WFD_AttDateTime3,getdate()) >0 then 0 when DATEDIFF(day,WFD_AttDateTime3,getdate()) = 0 then 1 else 2 end) The second column should pick the number of instances that have the conditions DATEDIFF(day,WFD_AttDateTime3,getdate()) = 0 DATEDIFF(day,WFD_AttDateTime3,getdate()) < 0 and then divid (...)

Hello everyone, I am new to Webcon so it might be a dumb question. Anyway, I am trying to create an App where one Department starts one Workflow that creates subworkflows for several other departments. The main Workflow should be able to see the current status/step of every subworkflow. But with what I did, I am getting 2 Errors [Form] "Failed with an unknown exception Fehler-ID: d1a18cc6-c67d-43bb-b883-66e3584445e9" [] "during saga execution: Failed with an unknown exception". See the at (...)

Hello, I have 2 form fields - Person (Assignee, Manager) I would like to create a report and filter that report based on these 2 columns. It is working fine, until Assignee/Manager is multiple value. If there are 2 persons assigned, it doesn't bring that instance in the report. This is my formula (SQL filter): and (WFD_AttChoose1 like trim('##currentloginname## ' )+'#%' OR WFD_AttChoose6  like trim('##currentloginname## ' )+'#%') Do you have (...)

Hi Guys, i perhaps have a simple question regarding the itemlist. We initalize the first row of an itemlist with default values in the coloums. I now would like to prevent the first row (init row) from deleting by the user. How can i manage this? Thanks so far Gerd

Hello, I have a form field - multiple lines of text (rich). When i send an e-mail, i set my form field - last entry text. If i write a text and add a new line, it multiples the number of lines in e-mail...as you can see in the attached screenshots. Do you know why is it happening? And what is there to do? Thank you.

Hello, I have set up a hotmailbox - Add to elements based on e-mail content. I am saving the BodyContent to a multiple lines of text form field called BodyContent - set always. I have created a global Menu buton which must be triggered when the value of BodyContent changes. So, on the form field - Style and behavior - Form rule to be exeuted on value change - I set "Invoke menu action - my button". If i send another e-mail and i mention that Instance ID, the value of BodyContent is modi (...)

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Hello everyone, i am searching for a tip / need a helping suggestion. 𝘒𝘕𝘖𝘞𝘓𝘌𝘋𝘎𝘌 𝘉𝘈𝘚𝘌 > 𝘍𝘖𝘙𝘔𝘚 > 𝘗𝘙𝘌𝘝𝘐𝘌𝘞 𝘖𝘍 𝘙𝘌𝘓𝘈𝘛𝘌𝘋 𝘐𝘕𝘚𝘛𝘈𝘕𝘊𝘌𝘚 https://community.webcon.com/posts/post/preview-of-related-instances/47 (see attached picture) "𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙖 𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙙 𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙚 𝙗𝙮 𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙖𝙪𝙡𝙩." 【QUESTION】 My question is: When PREVIEW-MODE is BY DEFAULT, is it possible to enable full (...)

Hello everyone, How can I find out more information about the cause using an error ID? Where can I enter the ID in the Designer Studio to get to the form field that is causing the error? I tried to adapt a data source to a "data table" form field because not all existing values ​​were displayed. Now I always get the error "Failed with an unknown exception Error ID: 6f351188-04d9-4049-bd2b-d3da66c64976" Unfortunately the error code doesn't help me understand what exactly happened... Ma (...)

Hi there, I have following idea and search for a solution: I have an items list; now in case a certain field is changed, I want to write the "old" value before the change into a different column of this itemlist row. Any ideas? Kind regards, Klaus

Hello, I have an application that creates a folder within a document library on SharePoint and needs to upload files to the newly created folder. I am encountering difficulties in uploading the file to SharePoint using the REST action with the Graph API. I get this error: "Invoke REST Web service test (2) - Request Url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/f656719a-4d1c-482b-be59-564f8c2af72d/oauth2/v2.0/token Response Code: Exceptions: Cannot add value because header 'Authorizat (...)