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In version 2020, the ability to present absences of employees in the form of the Gantt chart has been added to the Modern form. Until now, this form field was available only on the SharePoint form. One of the examples is displaying the employee's approved leaves in the absence process, but there are more possibilities - the process described below allows you to manage employees from the level of the production line.

The new version of WEBCON BPS mass e-mail notification system presents a great array of possibilities to adjust the contents and graphical solutions of mass e-mail notifications to the user’s current needs. Similar to the previous WEBCON BPS version the system administrator can define the day and time of the e-mail notification taking into account of the nature and working time of the organisation. Despite the possibility of defining the circumstances, e.g., group of addressees or redirecting the e-mail to the respective address, the previous version of WEBCON BPS 2021 mass e-mail notification system has been enriched with a vast range of new functionalities and visual solutions.

WEBCON BPS provides the option of embedding Microsoft Graph Toolkit components in the WEBCON BPS Portal. Basic information on the Graph Toolkit can be found at: Getting started with the Microsoft Graph Toolkit - Microsoft Graph | Microsoft Docs. o be able to use Graph Microsoft Toolkit components, you must first register the appropriate application in Azure Active Directory (App registrations) and create an authentication provider based on it (the msal2 version is recommended).

Automations are an overhaul to the Action mechanism in WEBCON BPS 2022. Existing actions will be incorporated into Automations which aim to provide:
1) Visual clarity and easier management of large numbers of actions
2) Robust error handling
3) "Temporary" Local parameters that are discarded after the Automation completes

As of 2019.1.1 version the application pool and WEBCONBPS IIS server is set by default. Default settings are not recommended for production environments. In the production installations, a change of default settings is recommended to minimalize the Portal response time to the first HTTP request after restarting its process.

WEBCON BPS allows for selecting an authentication provider and sometimes there may be a situation in which it will be necessary to change the already established provider from Active Directory to Azure Active Directory.

“Quick paths” is a standard functionality allowing for the use of a transition path without editing the form as well as several instances at the same time. “Quick paths” can be found useful wherever a task is repeatable and it does not require completing any form fields by the user or verifying a large amount of data.

The article aims at providing key information required to configurate new application elements. The article presents both required and optional information that will help you to add configuration components.

This article discusses the operating mode of the choice field type, types of choice fields in item lists (a.k.a. choice columns), the person type or group field type as well as the differences between form fields.

WEBCON BPS applications frequently require integration with external systems. SAP is one of the popular systems that requires integration with WEBCON BPS workflows.