Applies to version 2017.1.3.x; Author: Bartłomiej Spyrka SDK configuration for an ‘Administration process’ used to find and manage personal data This article presents methods of utilizing features available in WEBCON BPS to prepare a process for GDPR-related data management. In this article you will learn: How to approach the Administrative process which is used to tra
Applies to version: 2023 R3 and above; author: Krystyna Gawryał Introduction In the 2023 R3 version of BPS, WEBCON has implemented a new functionality that enhances security against unauthorized path transition .and prevents the execution of an unrequested task, such as signing a contract. If enabled, users who want to proceed to the next step must confirm their identity based on
Applies to version: 2023 R3 and above; author: Krystyna Gawryał Introduction The users of WEBCON BPS Designer Studio have a number of form fields at their disposal, thanks to which the forms prepared by them can take a variety of forms, and the end users of the system can easily exchange written information. One of the groups of form fields available in the system are Survey field
Applies to version: 2023.1.3 and above Introduction This article concerns the system data source <Users and Groups> and its effect on the Person or group form field from 2023 R3 onwards. The system data source <Users and Groups> (distinguished by the triangle brackets) is meant to act as a filter on top of the list of synchronized users -
(...) invisible or inactive for citizen developers with Application administrator privileges. Furthermore, among other things, they have the ability to manage data sources created by other users or create user groups … BPS groups To facilitate the concurrent execution of three projects, the Department Manager organized their subordinates into three groups and assigned each group to a respect (...)
Applies to version: 2021 R1 and above; author: Konrad Wojtycza, Łukasz Maciaszkiewicz Introduction This article examines the admin mode in Portal and the capabilities of users with Business administrator privileges. In addition to detailing the specifics of the aforementioned mode, the article addresses the process of granting Business Administrator privileges and configuring rule
Applies to versions: 2024 R1 and above; authors: Łukasz Chechelski, Jacek Język Related documentation A detailed description of the functionalities mentioned herein and their configuration can be found in the following sections of the WEBCON BPS Help: Users and groups synchronization | WEBCON BPS Authentication providers | WEBCON BPS Introduction Microsof
Applies to version: 2025.1.x and above; author: Grzegorz Straś Updated in 2025 R2: Authorization now available on table reports Related Documentation The 2 areas relevant to setting up this feature are the Visibility tab in the configuration of each form field, and the Security node in the global parameters, where the authorization methods are enabled. This article references on
Applies to version: 2025 R1 and above, author: Krystyna Gawryał Related documentation A detailed description of the functionalities mentioned herein and their configuration can be found in the following sections of the WEBCON BPS Help: Security | WEBCON BPS SMS notifications | WEBCON BPS Introduction SMS notifications in WEBCON BPS are one of the methods
Applies to version: 2020 R1 and above; author: Konrad Wojtycza, Dawid Golonka, Lily Adamowicz The WEBCON BPS system is natively integrated with the Active Directory (AD) service. Basic functionality of WEBCON BPS includes actions that allow managing AD resources directly from workflows. This article covers actions that enable the management of users and groups. The applicatio
(...) Hello, I have a field for "internal comments" and I want three user groups to be able to edit this field on every step of the workflow. On steps where they have the general right to edit, this works, but not on other steps. To clarify, on those other steps, they should NOT have rights to edit the step, ONLY to edit this one multiline text field. And any other group should NOT have the right to edit this f (...)
Hi everyone, maybe I have a wrong idea how a multi value picker field is used in filters/groups in reports. Current situation: The picker field will store the selected values in the order they have been chosen. If you use this field as a group, every unique "string" will be used as a group. Example: Workflow instance 1: IT: Research & Development Workflow instance 2: IT: Research
Hello, after playing around with the answers in the former thread I think it may be helpful for others to present my approach here. If anybody wants to reply to improve it, I will be grateful to learn. 1) Requirement Within a process a group of users is requested to deliver an approval by two different members from within the group. Also it shall be possible to change the process to two per
Hello, Is there a way to check a specific user AD group membership? I want to type a user in a field and then I want to see on which groups this user is(based on AD). It would also be great if the list of groups would be loaded into a list items. I read this: https://alterpaths.com/webcon-admin-process-checking-users-groups/ but it didn't work on me. Can you help?
Hi, During user synchronization I get hundreds of warnings like - Could not find group with BPS ID 'bps_startdk_kon_2u30@bxwebcon.pl' for relation stored in database. - Could not find group with BPS ID 'bps_kon_edycjaslownikow_2s4w@bxwebcon.pl' for relation stored in database. As a result members of groups don't have access to documents through group permissions. When I add user to
Hi, are any of you using the AD action that allows you to add/remove users from a group? Maybe I`m missing something, but I can't get the action to remove a user from a group to work. The add user to group action works fine, but when deleting, the log says that user is not a member of selected group. I tried with different groups, making sure that users are synchronized, and even for testing
I've got following problems - we are using AD as an authentication tool, but because of quite complex, matrix organizational scheme I cannot use a supervisor data from AD, because (depending on the project) the same user can have two different managers). So I figured out, that I will be using BPS Groups next to AD: 1. I've got User A, Manager A and Manager B 2. I've got groups Managers, Project
Hi, Blocking access based on login. Situation related to last webconaday :). Suddenly, there was a need to block access to the webcon BPS platform for a specific user. The situation was a bit more complicated because the user could not be deactivated at the AD level. Of course, it can be done, but it requires analyzing data, ad groups, places on configuration forms where such a person can b
Hello, I've upgraded my Webcon only yesterday and today it seems that there is a problem when sending configurable e-mail through action. The action is simple and it worked until now (previous version 2023.1.1.89). When the action runs it returns an error "Can't send e-mail: Column 'mail' does not belong to table Results.". The field used in the action is named "Procedujacy" and is the type "User
In template configuration of vacation template generated process we have 2 important data sources - vacation history and vacation plans. Their display on vacation chart is different - history has legend and colors for different types of absences, whereas plans are displayed just in one color and there are no types. Another difference is that history items do not point to the original item, whereas