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External content by Raluca-Mirabela Lupu The most important moment for a project is its deployment to production and the proper configuration of permissions for the users who will be using the application. I believe we have all encountered the problem of "no permissions to view certain reports" or something similar. To reduce these situations, we can use the "work on behalf of

Applies to version: 2024 R1 and above, author: Krystyna Gawryał   Introduction WEBCON BPS is equipped with application export and import mechanisms, enabling users to create applications in one environment (DEV/TEST/PROD) and then deploy them in another. Until now, export and import operations have been initiated by administrators in WEBCON BPS Designer Studio, requiring user input

(...) access. Evergreen Standalone Installer (x64): a full installer for environments without Internet access. For further information on downloading the runtime, please refer to the following link: https ://learn.microsoft.com/pl-pl/microsoft-edge/webview2/concepts/distribution#understanding-the-options-at-the-runtime-download-page. IMPORTANT: to ensure that the Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime is i (...)

Applies to version: 2024 R1 and above; author: Łukasz Maciaszkiewicz   Introduction Fast and easy access to information is one of the key aspects of a well-designed form. With crucial information readily available, users can not only perform tasks faster, but also make better decisions in the process. But how do you distinguish this crucial information from other data and present it

Applies to version: 2024 R1 and above; author: Łukasz Maciaszkiewicz   Introduction Dashboards are virtual panels that facilitate navigation within a WEBCON BPS application. By enabling embedding various elements within them, dashboards provide not only access to specific application assets, but also data that may be relevant for end users. This article discusses the possibilitie

Applies to version: 2024 R1 and above; author: Łukasz Maciaszkiewicz   Introduction Designing a business application is a process that requires both good memory and coordination from the people involved in it. Unfortunately, when faced with a large number of tasks, lengthy execution times, many people involved, or often all of the above, even the most capable mind must yield. To add

External content by Daniel Krüger; July 06, 2024 ;  The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de   It should be obvious, that you should secure any website with an SSL certificate. There's neither an excuse nor a valid reason for it. Ok, there's one theoretical exception I would accept. You are run a single server environment. Use only local accounts.

External content by Daniel Krüger; December 05, 2021 ;  The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de   Even though this is quite old, it still works and it can help others: If you are providing multilingual user interfaces this post can provide you with little helpers to generate SQL statements: For multilingual choose fields. Multilingual icons &n

External content by Daniel Krüger; February 04, 2024 ;  The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de   During my first Ask me Anything I was asked how I could add a custom help page.I found this question so intersting, that I went a little overboard. The result was a solution to automatically display a help icon, if there's a help page for this step. 

External content by Daniel Krüger; September 02, 2022 ;  The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de If you are accessing at least to WEBCON BPS environments you may have come into a situation, where one environment is using a different WEBCON BPS version than the other.  In this case it comes in handy that it is possible to create a shortcut which opens connects to

(...) t yet have Java, it is best to install Java from OpenJDK distribution. It is available under Open Source license. As of publishing this article, the newest version of OpenJDK can be found here: https ://jdk.java.net/22/ The installation involves downloading the Windows 64 version of the pack, and extracting it to the chosen directory. Next, it is necessary to add a JAVA_HOME environmental va (...)

(...) r individual configuration!   A small tip for using images as links: If you do not have access to the server's image folder, use services like BASE64 Image [English text version: https ://www.base64-image.de/ ] to convert your JPG or PNG graphics into text that can be directly integrated. This also saves the recipient from the annoying prompt by the email program asking if i (...)

External content by Daniel Krüger; July 15, 2024 ;  The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de WEBCON BPS 2024 added a public API to import applications. WEBCON made this easy by providing a command line utility which is described in the knowledge base article Importing applications using the public API: Since I want to use the API in another use case I needed to play ar

External content by Daniel Krüger; August, 2022 ;  The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de   If you are working with web services data sources like REST then you will have noticed that you can't view the outgoing request. This is also true, if you have a problem, when the instances hasn't been saved yet. All in all this can be quite annoying, if there&

External content by Daniel Krüger; July 20, 2024;  The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de   Should we import applications via an application instead of the Designer Studio? In my opinion yes. But this is mainly influenced from a partner perspective who has to deploy the same process to multiple customers who require that these kind of things are documented. Wh

External content by Daniel Krüger; July 06, 2024 ;  The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de     WEBCON BPS 2024 introduced different kind of form templates: While this is great for WEBCON BPS 2024 users. You can already achieve something similar with a little HTML field in previous version. You could even make it dynamic. If one tab needs a lot of

External content by Daniel Krüger; July 21, 2024 ;  The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de   I'm sure I'm not the only one who got the task, that some item list rows should be deletable while others can not be deleted. For example if an item list starts sub workflows and when a subworkflow was started for a row, than it should not be possible to delete it.

(...) styles could be defined in the new html-field (for every process we would have to define it again) or much better, let it define in the themes editor! Update 06.04.2021 Apparently is now in back-log https ://community.webcon.com/forum/thread/404/15

(...) rmatting, no options to use existing variables Why do I think that this would be mandatory? The path example of advanced colouring will just break on transporting the report to another environment: https ://community.webcon.com/community.webcon.com/public/posts/post/advanced-cell-coloring-in-reports/18 This is just a simple example and I have more in mind. While I can workaround for some variables b (...)

(...) In the release notes of WEBCON BPS 2021 the new option of using the openid authentication flow is mentioned. However, i did not find an option to use this authentication when calling Rest API's. https ://webcon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/WEBCON-BPS-2021-New-Release-Overview.pdf Did i miss something or is it not yet released?