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(...) Applies to version: 2020.1.x and above; author: Michał Lalewicz   Introduction privilege s are an integral part of the WEBCON BPS system – defining what each user (or group of users) can see in an application and to what extent they can participate in the system. privilege s can be scaled and applied globally, per application, per process and even per specific form type.   (...)

(...) Applies to all versions; author: Adrian Motyka   During the installation of the FineReader 11 component, one must consider the user privilege s of the account on which WEBCON BPS Workflow Service will be run. If this user is not a local administrator, then add this account to be stored in the DCOM service of the FineReader 11 component. More information here: http://knowledgebase.abbyy (...)

(...) es for a form field to remain in a single step for a long time. One of the most popular is a stocktaking process of the provided assets. Based on it, a difference between assigning task and providing privilege s to modify will be explained.   Case study For the purposes of this article an asset stocktaking process was created.     It starts with a “Asset registrati (...)

(...) Kastelik   WEBCON BPS offers you several actions enabling integration with the Microsoft SharePoint Online environment and SharePoint workflows. This article describes how to manage these privilege s using actions in workflows.   1. SharePoint Site Collection To configure the actions running in the SharePoint Online environment, first create a connection. In Designer Studio, g (...)

(...) Applies to version 2020.1.3; author: Michał Kastelik   Introduction WEBCON BPS contains a built-in administration tool that allows you to quickly transfer or copy privilege s from one user to another. This function can be used at the moment of changes in the structure of the organization or when delegating responsibilities to a new person in a given process.   Configuration Ev (...)

(...) irectory’, ‘Synchronize organization hierarchy from Active Directory’ and periodic Cache refresh.   Additionally, in the process configuration in the ‘User privilege s’ tab you need to select the checkbox: ‘Make subordinates’ tasks and workflow instances accessible’.     After saving the configuration in the De (...)

(...) 2021.1.x and above; author: Konrad Wojtycza The article is an update of the already existing article, it shows the configuration in version 2021.1.1. For the original see: Adding and removing privilege s. Introduction In workflow instances, there is often a need for people who do not have active tasks at the indicated steps to have appropriate privilege s and be able to e.g. view (read privileg (...)

(...) Applies to version: 2021.1.x and above; author: Adrian Baszak Introduction This article presents a workflow for checking user’s and group’s privilege s in one place. It can become useful when having many deployed applications and roles with different privilege s. This workflow may be used as a part of a larger group management application based on WEBCON BPS.  In the workflow, one (...)

(...) inistrator had the authority to create BPS groups; similarly, only they could add new users to existing groups. However, from version 2023 R1, a mechanism has been introduced so that users with lower privilege levels will be able to manage selected BPS groups.   Business case This article describes the new functionality on the example of a BPS group that was created in Company X in connection (...)

(...) External content by Maksymilian Stachowiak Every application you create needs defined permissions, this post is about a pattern I'm using in every application. It helps with managing privilege s, and eases out assigning already existing permissions. Read more here

(...) Hello everyone, I have a problem and I hope that you will help me with the solution :) In general, at the star step, I grant read permissions to different domain groups (Add/Remove privilege s BPS Action). The problem comes when I have a completely new group and I need them to have access to old documents in end step (Final - positive). Clicking through several thousand documents is not an option. It wo (...)

(...) Hello, I have a quick question - are privilege s added to item through "Add privilege s" action visible in the administrative "privilege s to item" panel? I'm asking, because I have an action that is being run on an item, there is no error, but the rights given rhis way are not visible. Is it normal (I have the latest of 2021 versions still running)?

(...) I need to grant task assignments to a specific user, for already existing specific instances. And a select other person, which is already assigned, should be unassigned. Except for the "Add/Remove privilege s" Action (which is not what we want), I have found no way to switch task assignments. Is there a way to do it, preferrably via a MenuButton? Kind regards

(...) time, so we need to adjust rights on certain workflow elements (in different processes) to this specific list of persons. I am wondering if it is possible (with Webcon Standard actions) to replace privilege s on certain workflow elements in different processes. Selection of workflow elements in different processes with SQL would be easy, but I did not find a Webcon action which actually replaces permi (...)

(...) Has someone met the problem with "Giving privilege s" action, after update to v. 2022.1.4.127? Action stopped matching user data on "DisplayName" (COS_DisplayName) or ID that is stored as BPSid (COS_BPSid). Finding user is now possible only by email address (COS_email). COS_BPSid and COS_email are not the same in my case. That seems to be a bug as the log of action suggests that data is searched firstly by (...)

(...) Hello everyone, I have a question for you, maybe you can help me. I know you can set user privilege s for each application or process separately, but I wonder if I can also restrict user visibility depending on some criteria.. For this scenario I've created: BPS user group: Software Engineer person X, person Y, person Z are part of software group Let's say there are also multiple projects and thei (...)

(...) Hello, Is there a possibility to implement an automation mechanism for granting application privilege s, such as the "Metadata access", "Access all workflow instances" permissions etc? I have created a Global action - On start (cyclical) that is creating a group and adding a user to that group, but also i have to add that group to Application privilege s so they can access the app. How can i do that auto (...)

(...) Hello, I am trying to call this API so i can grant "readonly" privilege to a group on a instance. /api/data/v4.0/db/{dbid}/elements/{id}/admin/privilege s I have added App.Elements.Admin.All permission. But i get error: Invoke REST Web service - Request Url: https://domain/api/data/v4.0/db/1/elements/2450/admin/privilege s Response Code: BadRequest (400) Exceptions: Rest service call failed. Http (...)

(...) Hi all! I am currently struggling with 'Add privilege s' action. I want to use a predefined datasource (SQL query based on WFElements), this is shown under (1) in attached picture. The datasource I am using selects all elements from a specific formtype and needs additional filtering in SQL query window (2). But I am unable to do that, every attempt so far resulted in syntax error. I am sure t (...)

(...) An error (lack of privilege s) in executing the Generate/Update a Word file triggered from the Menu button by a user who had privilege s to read an instance but not to edit it. This is happening after upgrade to version 2023.1.2.124. It was working in previous version we were using. It would be great if we can go back to allowing users with read only access to generate a word file. Thank you