In this article, I am going to cover a new use case scenario for Bot enabled AgilePoint NX application where you want to create secured bot which asks known user to be authenticated before bot starts performing the work on behalf of the user. I am going to utilize one of my previous bot demos…
Create App Level Access Tokens for Office 365
As part of the security best practices, a lot of admins in Office 365 setup their user password policy in a way that the password needs to be changed every 3 months. Though this is very good for end user account security, it can pose challenge for service accounts being used in the applications to…
Create Smarter Bot Enabled Apps with AgilePoint NX – Part 3
In this article, I am going to cover a new use case scenario for Bot enabled AgilePoint NX application. In my previous blog posts on this topic, I showed an example of a bot where it collected initial information from the user using Skype and then passed on that information for further processing to AgilePoint…
Create Smarter Bot Enabled Apps with AgilePoint NX – Part 2
In this article I am going to walk you through another scenario of a bot enabled AgilePoint NX application where the bot is powered by Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. In my previous blog post on this topic, I showed an example of a bot where it collected initial information from the user using…
Integrate Logic Apps with AgilePoint NX
We can discuss Microsoft Flow and Azure Logic Apps together because they are both configuration-first integration services. They make it easy to build processes and workflows and integrate with various SaaS and enterprise applications. Flow is built on top of Logic Apps They have the same workflow designer Connectors that work in one can also work in…
How Microsoft Flow can play a key role in AgilePoint NX
For those of you working on Microsoft cloud systems specially Office 365 might have noticed that Microsoft has a new personal productivity tool to replace the now deprecated SharePoint Designer. People sometimes ask me if I have any comment on the announcement of Microsoft Flow and how it impacts or integrates with AgilePoint NX Workflow…
Create Smarter Bot Enabled Apps with AgilePoint NX
In this article I am going to walk you through a scenario of a bot enabled AgilePoint NX application where the bot is powered by Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. A lot of businesses are moving towards bot enabling their operations not just to perform repetitive tasks which do not need human intervention but…
Create Auto Increment field using AgilePoint NX
Generating an auto increment sequence number is a pretty common requirement for applications but often times you would find that something as simple as that might not be that straightforward to achieve. However AgilePoint NX platform makes it very easy to achieve this functionality. There are infact more than 1 ways of doing it which…
Artificial Intelligence based Process Routing
Business process management (BPM) and Low code platforms are going through a drastic shift. The traditional focuses of process efficiency and cost reduction have given way to agility and digital automation. AI is the trending thing in the business process management (BPM) industry and it is continuing to come to the forefront. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies…
Integrate business apps with cognitive services like Sentiment Analysis
Traditionally focused BPM solutions had a priority of cost-cutting and process optimization but today’s digital transformation trends have moved the focus over to customer experience. As a result, BPM solutions are seeing an infusion of artificial intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) especially as vendors look to differentiate themselves apart from the competition. Integrating…
Approve tasks using Skype for Business and other social channels
Enterprise social and chat applications like Yammer, Salesforce Chatter, Slack, Skype for Business are in demand, and new generation’s user expectation is that you should be able to access work without leaving the chat client whether it is on mobile or desktop client. This is exactly what AgilePoint’s social and chat bot lets you do….
Multi Tenancy with AgilePoint NX for Enterprises
Multi Tenancy is a topic which needs no introduction as anyone who has embraced cloud has already been using it with SaaS offerings like Office 365, Salesforce etc. but AgilePoint NX has taken it a notch up by making it available not just for SaaS but within enterprise firewall as well. Multi Tenant installations has…
SharePoint Access Token – Best Practices for Multi Nationals
AgilePoint NX as a product is used by companies with employees ranging from 50 user – 400K users. A lot of organizations do a global roll out of AgilePoint NX for their employees worldwide with application designers spread across multiple continents. A lot of global roll-outs do involve SharePoint integration and a question we sometimes…
Accelerate your IoT strategy with AgilePoint NX – Part 2
In the previous blog post on this topic, I had demonstrated a Fire Alarm system which where as Raspberry Pi 2 device alongwith a temperature sensor was integrated with AgilePoint NX to have an end to end business monitoring by a fire alarm company. Here is the link to part 1 in the IoT blog…
Oracle Database Access Token ORA-12154 error
While creating access token for Oracle database if you get the error message as shown in screenshot then this solution applies to you : One of the possible reason is that the system doesn’t rely on the tnsnames.ora file in the local system, so to overcome that we need to frame the connection string omitting…
Accelerate your IoT strategy with AgilePoint NX
One of the biggest technology trends of last few years is the Internet of Things. The term Internet of Things (often abbreviated IoT) was coined by industry researchers but has emerged into mainstream public view only more recently. Some claim the Internet of Things will completely transform how computer networks are used for the next…
Specify custom column width for Data Grid in eForm
In the following article I would show how you can specify custom column width for Data Grid in eForms by using some minimal JavaScript. Suppose your grid has 3 columns where you wish to specif 25% width to first 2 columns each and 50% width to last column. You could insert CSS in the CSS…
Natively embed eForms into a WordPress portal
Last year I worked on a interesting concept during my spare time to create a WordPress plugin to make AgilePoint components available in WordPress. WordPress is one of the most famous web portal in the world and having full featured enterprise forms available in WordPress sounded an interesting concept as you could send/receive data from…
Integrate BizTalk with AgilePoint Process
I was browsing through some of the old video archives and came across a video I had recorded back in 2010 on how to integrate AgilePoint process with BizTalk. Though the video shows few of the AgilePoint V5 legacy components like Visio based designer and uses InfoPath as form technology, the concept remains the same even…
How to embed custom AgileReport into your eForms
AgileReports is an AgilePoint NX component where you can create, run, and configure reports and reports settings related to data in your applications. It lets you create Interactive Ad-hoc dashboards and Advanced Visualization based reports based on your custom application data. Sometimes your target audience might want to see these reports right within the context of…