External content by Razvan Ogrezeanu; 15.04.2024 Introduction In today's digital age, email remains a cornerstone of business communication, serving as a direct line to customers, stakeholders, and internal teams alike. Its role extends beyond mere information exchange, functioning as a vital tool for marketing, customer service, and engagement. The ability to capture attention a
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
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.
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 The form is a critical component of WEBCON BPS, serving as a conduit for the collection of business data. A user is more likely to complete a form accurately and attentively when it is attractive, convenient, and intuitive. Version 2024 R1 introduced the ability to change the proportions of the left and
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
Applies to version: 2024.1 and above; author: Marcin Kapusta Introduction In WEBCON BPS 2024 R1, the Search Server component uses a new version of the Apache Solr index to search for data – 9.6.0. Because of this, updating WEBCON BPS will require additional steps. Most of these steps will be carried out automatically by the installer, nonetheless, some will need to b
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
Applies to version: 2023.1.x and above; authors: Marcin Kapusta, Krystyna Gawryał Introduction The newly released version of WEBCON BPS (2023.1.x) enables containerization of the system components. Thanks to this, it possible to use Docker images provided for WEBCON BPS Portal, BPS Workflow Service, and Search Server (Solr) and run these modules in containers. Containerization
External content by Daniel Krüger; September 29, 2024 ; The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de Another post about starting a Teams chat? But this time it’s not about contacting a person who has a task but starting a chat/call with anyone who is referenced in a workflow. This could be: A single person field. A field which allows only groups. Or eve
Applies to version 2025 R1 and above, author: Krystyna Gawryał Introduction Version 2025 R1 of WEBCON BPS introduced two new functionalities: Workflow phases and Workflow actors, which aim to visually divide the steps and tasks assigned to them according to the stages of execution (phases) and the people responsible for their completion (actors). Together, these functionalities cr
Applies to version: 2021 R1 and above; author: Łukasz Chechelski Introduction The OAuth2 authentication standard is becoming increasingly popular, as it enables integration between different systems. In many cases, the connection takes place in the API → Application model, which makes authentication much easier. In this case, a predefined set of data is used – Client ID
Hi all, I am quite new to webcon and I came over this. We have a form with a item list. The item list is initialized from external source. It shall represent a log file for some measured values. The lines in the item list shall be every 10 minutes, so I initialize the list with 100 x 10 minutes line. Hence, the user shall not be able to delete or duplicate records / lines from the item list.
Every WebCon BPS Applications needs permissions to work properly. Of course best practices is to use groups: WebCon BPS, Active Directory, SharePoint ones. It is worth to some have naming convention for them. It is also crucial to know which are used within the specific Application. We can dig into the BPS Studio and check Application, Process, Worfklow, Document Types permissions. We can chec
Hi, in an Azure Active Directory environment it would be great to add an option to the people field which would configure it, whether external /guest users are selectable at all. Default value should be false. A customer worked around this by limiting the selection to a BPS group and adding AAD Groups as members of the group. No external user was a member of the AAD group. Technically t
(...) Hi, I'm planning to use BPS for an Agreement process. Is it possible to collaborate in a Word document with external users (users from outside of the company, assigned to the process only for the specific Agreement for 2-3 days)? Do I need licenses for those users?
Although there is a 'Tips & Tricks' category in the forum, the forum is primarily used for asking questions. Searching for specific tips and tricks is not always optimal. My suggestion is to create a separate section for this, with the option to allow external contributions. This could either be regulated like the Knowledge Base or open like the forum. Ideally, this section could include subcat
Privacy Policy WEBCON Effective Date: 27.08.2019 The Privacy Policy determines the principles of gathering and collecting personal data and other anonymous data. The Privacy Policy applies to mobile applications „WEBCON BPS 2019”, „WEBCON BPS”, applications: „WEBCON BPS Add-In for Outlook” „WEBCON BPS Cloud Portal for Teams”, service &