AgilePoint engine follows an industry standard called XPDL for its process model definition. However sometimes clients might also ask for BPMN support on the process as well as individual workflow activities. Though one thing to clarify is that BPMN is more of a static notation which is used for documenting the process and none of…
Category: Process Designer
Unable to save process model
If you are encountering an issue where you are unable to save changes made to a process model please follow the steps mentioned below. The symptom usually is that after checking out the process and making changes, clicking on save greys the screen like it is attempting to save but it doesn’t save. Finally you might…
Restrict workflow activity and form lookup usage to certain users in AgilePoint NX
Sometimes during the client discovery calls, there is a question that they wish to restrict usage of certain workflow activities and workflow lookup to certain designers only based on their permissions. This scenario is already covered in the permission management system of AgilePoint NX. An app designer can see all the shapes but in order…
Execute custom C# Snippet with AgilePoint NX Process
For those of you who are migrating over from AgilePoint NX v 5.x to AgilePoint NX might notice taht the C# snippet workflow activity is missing. C# shape has been knowingly left out of NX as it was seen as big security concern for lot of people as it can be really dangerous if C#…
Assigning workflow task to user based on his online presence
There are more than 1 ways of achieving task load balancing based on user’s online presence. It needs some logic to be defined which will differ from one client to other and even one workflow to other. Here are few of the driving factors. What system are you going to depend on while detecting that…
Store file on network drive through eForms or Process
If system admin tries to map a drive on AgilePoint NX server machine manually, it will not be usable by AgilePoint NX server as it is not mapped in context of this service. This is where intricacies of Map drive and how it works at O/S level shows up and that is what we are going…
Automate deploying apps from one environment to other
Bigger enterprises love automation. At times a question comes up is that can we automate deployment of apps from development to staging. Also some companies want to have an approval workflow around moving of apps from one environment to other so that configuration management teams are in full control over the environment. AgilePoint makes it…