General

An overview of topics we needed to take care of when we upgraded a 2022.1.4.127 version to 2025.1.1.105.

Three options to migrate data and deactivated/no longer existing users.

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.

In some cases it may be necessary to look beyond the diagnostic sessions and events stored in the database to diagnose errors occurring in WEBCON BPS Portal. Here, information stored in the browser comes to the rescue: developer console data and HAR files. This article provides instructions on how to create and save the mentioned logs in the most popular browsers: Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox.

The Public Forms mechanism is an interesting solution that allows you to create external forms whose main advantage is anonymity. The site built in this way communicates with WEBCON BPS via the REST standard, creating new instances in specific processes. It is important to note that the mechanism is available for free on GitHub under the MIT license.
This article focuses on the installation of Public Forms in IIS. The described scenario assumes the preparation of an external site that will allow potential clients to request contact for more detailed information. The functionality prepared in this way will be able to be embedded into the site as an IFrame.

In the standard platform configuration, the name of the machine on which the WEBCON BPS components are installed is stored in several places in the system. Among other things, it serves as the address of the license service, the Solr server, and also plays a role in the license activation process. Therefore, changing the name of the WEBCON BPS server will prevent the components from working correctly and will require configuration changes to the environment.
This article lists the steps that must be taken to ensure that the system works correctly when the application server needs to be renamed.

A documentation for setting up the App registration and an example on how to use it.

SMS notifications in WEBCON BPS are one of the methods for additional authentication of user operations, e.g. when authorizing path transition or access to confidential form data. This article provides instructions on how to configure an SMS gateway that allows sending short text messages with authorization codes from the system.

In order to facilitate the management of tasks, WEBCON BPS provides the functionality of marking tasks, also called flagging. Users can change the flags of the tasks to which they are assigned, both from the document and from a properly configured report.

Timers are elements that allow you to define the frequency with which the associated actions are performed. Thanks to them, it is possible to define the start time and the possible repetition cycle of such actions.
In WEBCON BPS 2025 R1, numerous changes and improvements have been made to the operation of Timers (previously known as Timeouts). This article describes these changes to the timer configuration and gives examples of how to calculate their start dates.