External Content by Daniel Krüger; WEBCON BPS Version: 2023.1.3.76 The original post appeared on: daniels-notes-.de There’s no application I know of, which doesn’t use some workflow relations. The most common is the parent-child variant followed by data referenced from dictionary processes, which further continues with grand-grand-children with other data references. T
External content by Daniel Krüger; February 13, 2024 ; WEBCON BPS Version: 2023.1.3.29 The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de WEBCON BPS has a series of safety mechanisms preventing the accidental deletion of crucial elements. This post provides a checklist of "to-do" items whenever there's a need to delete a complex application, which usually c
External content by Daniel Krüger; March 11, 2024; WEBCON BPS 2023.1.3.76 The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de This post provides a solution to extracting the latest comments in the standard "Comment" field on the form. The issue with this Last comment text variable is, that’s always the latest added comment, regardless of how old it may be. He
External content provided by Daniel Krüger; April 11, 2024; WEBCON BPS Version: 2023.1.3.118 Full post: https://daniels-notes.de/posts/2024/playwright-part-two The video show cases the changes to the previous part and will give you how Playwright could be useful. Changes: Tab support Collapsed group support Provide step id instead of the title to verify it
External content by Daniel Krüger; March 31, 2024 ; WEBCON BPS Version: 2023.1.3.118 The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de A colleague introduced me to Playwright from Microsoft. This is a tool you can use for automating UI testing. If you have no idea, what this means, imagine the following: You have an approval workflow. Person one provides s
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External content by Maksymilian Stachowiak; 16.04.2024 There are still some places where low-code has identical challenges as code, one of those issues is Magic Numbers. This post is rather for beginners, those starting their WEBCON journey. It focuses on the importance of using Constants instead of typing numbers directly in filters, rules, and queries. This leads to easier maintena
External content by Raluca-Mirabela Lupu; 18.04.2024 Why would you need gamification for your processes? Gamification is the process of using game elements, such as points, ranks, awards, and competitions, in non-game contexts, like education, business, or health, to motivate and engage participants more actively and involved. Studies show that gamification can have significa
External content by Markus Jenni; 17.04.2024 The "Generate/Update a Word file" action allows the creation of documents quite easily. In the past, we stumbled upon some challenges: Internal names of Test and Production can be different It happened that a report had to be redesigned for production as the properties are named after the internal names No Rich text c
The open lecture entitled "Process Design using Low-Code for Students Planning to Work in Business and IT", organized by the Department of Logistics and Process Engineering and WEBCON Sp. z o.o., brought significant value to students of Logistics and Computer Science at UITM. During the lecture, Urszula Słupik and Adrian Baszak introduced stude
External content by Daniel Krüger; October16, 2023 ; WEBCON BPS Version: 2023.1.2.44, 2022.1.4.155 The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de If you ever used a condition to mark cells in a larger item list and had "Single row edit" activated, you may have been confused which cell is required. In this post you will: See one solution to add a g
External content by Daniel Krüger; May 5, 2024 ; WEBCON BPS Version: 2023.1.3.118 The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de I've finished a new post about using Playwright with WEBCON BPS. As I needed to add support for more field types, I didn't want to define the test data for each step and field type on my own. Therefore, I focused this time on
External content by Daniel Krüger; November 10, 2021 ; The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de Even so this post is old but inI regard to a current forum post I think it's worth to mention it. It describes: The differences between saving a workflow instance using the save action and a save path. How to simulate a save menu action, in case of a new wo
External content by Daniel Krüger; April 18, 2024 ; The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de Did you ever wanted, to navigate up to a parent or grant parent workflow instance? Then you may find the linked post interesting. READ MORE: HERE
Applies to version: 2023.1.x and above; author: Michał Bednarz Introduction The feature to install WEBCON BPS modules in containers was added in version 2023 and has been described here. Now that the platform can be run based on container services, we can employ various modern services like Kubernetes to launch and manage our application. Requirements W
External content by Daniel Krüger; May 26, 2024 ; The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de While you get a lot of results if you search for translations, there's not an overview of the different topics. Therefore, I compiled a list on my own and provided additional information wherever necessary. Covered topics are: User interface Data Emails Enfor
Applies to version: 2023 R3 and above; author: Krystyna Gawryał Introduction In WEBCON BPS, it is now possible to perform automated operations on the rows, columns, and values of the Item list. Previously, these operations were executed using the Change item list values action, with the final result determined by the mode chosen by the configurator. However, version 2023 R3 introd
Applies to version: 2023.1.3 and above Introduction The security of a WEBCON BPS system is influenced by two things: the infrastructure of the installation, and the configuration options within the system itself. In this article, we will focus on the latter – options that can be found in Designer Studio that can be used to control the system’s accessibility.
Author: Markus Jenni I came across a requirement, that only pdf files should be allowed to be uploaded. As there are other file extensions allowed in further processes, we can not only limit the extensions globally. To enforce this requirement, we first configured a validation rule, which basically did the trick. However, from a user experience perspective, it would be great if th
Applies to version: 2022.1.x and above, author: Krystyna Gawryał This is an updated version of the article: Outlook Modern – installation and use Introduction Microsoft Outlook is one of the basic tools used by office workers. Outlook Classic and Outlook Modern add-ins are responsible for its integration with WEBCON BPS Portal. They allow users to access their tasks