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Applies to version 2020.1.3 ; author: Dawid Golonka    Introduction   This article describes how you can create, delete, and edit individual users in WEBCON BPS, using a standalone installation (one that operates without SharePoint). These features have been introduced with version 2020.1.3 of the program. You can also use BPS groups to manage users. To read more a

  PDF version   1. Prerequisites (SharePoint platform) 2. Prerequisites (no SharePoint platform) 3. High availability 4. WEBCON BPS databases 5. Disaster-recovery scenario (SharePoint platform) 6. Disaster-recovery scenario (no SharePoint platform) 7. Good practices in WEBCON BPS platform maintenance 8. WEBCON BPS Farm internat/external communication diagr

Applies to version: 2021.1.x and above; author: Józef Cyran Introduction The article presents two workflows, the first is used to plan absence by an employee, and the second to register absence requests (using wizard). A special workflow for creating absence plans allows the employee to plan the absence (e.g. at the beginning of the year), which will then appear on the Gantt chart.

Applies to version: 2022.1.x and above; author: Dominika Stelmach This article is an update of the already existing article -> WEBCON BPS Portal - Website look customization.  Introduction In WEBCON BPS, it is possible to personalize the appearance of the platform by changing the logo and color theme of the website. To be able to modify a color theme, a user must have app

Applies to version: 8.1.x and above, author: Martyna Kubiak Functionality description With WEBCON BPS users can now create HotMailBoxes. A HotMailBox automatically starts workflows or adds files to them whenever an e-mail message is delivered to an inbox configured in it. A HotMailBox can operate in one of the following modes: “Start one workflow for each e-mail” &l

Applies to version: 2022.1.x and above; author: Krystyna Gawryał   Introduction The overarching idea of workflow in WEBCON BPS is to exchange written information between system users and perform related tasks, such as reading, updating or modifying data on a form. Documentation in the workflow consists not only of workflow instances and filled out forms, but also files with various

(...) seven standard language packages a user can easily switch between changing translation of fixed elements of form and WEBCON BPS Portal. Sometimes, changing language package also involves changing the date format , which is especially important for English which in standard WEBCON BPS package is available in its American variety. This article describes how to change date format while preserving translations in (...)

Applies to version: 2021.1.x and above; author: Agnieszka Burda   Introduction With WEBCON BPS you can use API interface. The article available here: https://community.webcon.com/posts/post/the-invoke-rest-web-service-action/170/ describes the “Invoke REST Web Service” action provided in Designer Studio that allows users to use external services sharing their own API. Th

Applies to version: 2021.1.x and above; author: Mike Fitzmaurice   WEBCON BPS offers several ways to handle parallel activity. If the scenario involves a single task assigned to multiple people, a few task configuration settings are all that is needed. But when entire sets of activities, instructions, and decision logic must take place in parallel, subworkflows are necessary. The va

Applies to version: 2023 R3 and above; author: Jacek Język   Introduction ABBYY FineReader 12 is a software that transforms scanned documents and PDF files into editable (text) versions. In the WEBCON BPS platform, the software is used to generate text layer for attached files. This article describes the procedure for installing the ABBYY FineReader 12 component.   &n

Hi all, I'm taking some time to explore the possibilities of Sharepoint and Webcon. I have a process set up to approve internal documents and they need to be renewed after 1 year from the previous date. I was trying to set up the beginning of the process in the Library List (and in the future use the renewal date do display the Start Workflow option for the line) and took the example of

(...) a date field. Of course creating extra text fields which are visible on the form which are just formatted text fields is an option. But it somehow HAS to be possible just simply set a different date format . Thanks in advance. Best regards

(...) able to a date from a form field that is completed by an user (it is "user's date"): "where table1.date = User's date: date acc. browser settings(text)" and it doesn't work because of different date format s. I've tried multiple methods and nothing worked. Do you know any solution? However, the following where clause works very well, what tells me that the problem is date format . "where table1.date (...)

Hello, I have some date set on forms. Need to find any solution to have that date - 1 month for example: Date on form is (YYYY-MM-DD): 1. 2022-05-05 2. 2022-01-10 3. 2021-12-25 Date that I expect need(YYYY-MM-DD): 1. 2022-04-05 2. 2021-12-10 3. 2021-11-25 Do you have any idea to solve it? My poor trying on the screen below (a lot of counting and IF's and still get wrong format

Hi, I had a "task" workflow with a due date and this due date was used in a timeout in a start step. At a later point in time it was decided that a "save draft" path should be added which won't validate the form. Using this path failed with "unknown exception" and the diagnostic log did not contain any hint that this was related to the timeout. Everything was fine except that there was the bel

Hello, after changing the connection type for exchange actions from EWS Basic to MS Graph, I lost the ability to format body text in html in exchange calendar events. Problem observed in version 2022.1.4.84. Manual update with Graph works fine, however, calling it from the built-in action, there is some conversion to body content applied here - please return us the ability to format body in ht

Hello everyone, I'm wondering if there is any function that will format today's date from original format into "JAN.14.2024" format. Basically to transform the month into letters and display them like that. Thank youu.

Hi, We have problem after update to ver. 2023.1.2.99. We have implemented menu buttons for Help Desk and Printing. In 2022, every user who have acces to instance can push button and print form or start help desk (button in menu was accesable in every step or last steps etc). After the update buttons apear on the form but after clicking there is error... and users cant use it. Is it new fe

Hello all, This might be a very simple question! I'm trying to set up a calculated date field using a concat function and then a text to date in order to format it to date, but I'm keep having an error saying that String '7/3/2024' was not recognized as a valid DateTime. It looks like the conversion function is not working. Do you know if that only works if selecting a field? Meaning

Hi guys, in some use cases we need to have some formatted text based on an textconstant on a pdf dokument. Therefor we have some logic in the application which places the text in a given multilinefield if a date is changed in a special way. The texttemplate ist displayed correctly in the application and in the word, if the user did not make any changes on the text. But the user has to make