There are multiple ways of adding participants on the fly to the process even though they might not have been initially in the original process design. These capabilities were there in AgilePoint since beginning. Here are few options Option 1: Create Linked WorkItem – Permits creating tasks for others in an ad-hoc manner. In this…
Internet Explorer support for AgilePoint Dashboard Webpart with SharePoint 2010.
AgilePoint Dashboard WebPart is built on top of html 5 features and to support viewing of AgilePoint Dashboard WebPart, user must have IE 10 or later versions installed in the SharePoint server. However, within SharePoint 2010, pages are always rendered using IE8 standards document mode by default even if higher versions of IE are installed…
Re-initiate AgilePoint NX portal provisioning
If for some reason, the initial portal provisioning did not go through properly, you can re-initiate it by following the steps mentioned below Close the portal if it is open in any browser on the server machine Create a new tenant database if you wish to recreate all tables from scratch. You cna also delete the…
ADFS Error: There was an error in enabling endpoints of Federation Service.
Symptom: After configuration AD FS if you tried to connect to the endpoint for e.g. “……adfs/services/trust/13/usernamemixed” and you get following error message “HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.”. However if you see the endpoint is enabled in AD FS Reason: If you look at the AD FS event log on the AD FS machine you…
What happened to C# snippet activity in AgilePoint NX?
C# workflow activity 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# can be injected directly from browser. Here are some details Before I explain a bit more detail on why C# snippet is being deprecated and alternatives…
Mobile App Security – AgilePoint NX
AgilePoint NX has a stateless engine i.e. each call is individually authenticated at the server side. So if you lose the mobile device by chance if the app was on, and disable the user in AgilePoint manage center or change its password, at most what user can see is the screen which is open. However…
AgilePoint support for Windows Azure AD federated through OnPremises ADFS
If your Office 365/CRM Online environment is already protected by OnPrem ADFS, AgilePoint portal and server supports logging in with same Microsoft Office 365/Windows Azure AD account using OAuth2 token. When your Office 365 account is protected by OnPrem AD using ADFS, what Microsoft does behind the scene is that it protects all its Online…
AgilePoint NX Office 365 dashboard not rendering in Internet Explorer
Symptom: I have noticed a discrepancy between the different browsers when adding the AgilePoint Dashboard and opening the AgilePoint Workflow Plug-In. The AgilePoint dashboard and AgilePoint workflow plugin do not render when using Internet Explorer but works fine in Chrome and Firefox. Resolution: Internet Explorer 10+ is supported for AgilePoint NX. The reason for this error is…
Content Type Level Workflows Limitations in Office 365
Content type level workflows are a thing which has been very common in SharePoint world for many years. However with introduction of new workflow platform in SharePoint 2013, significant changes were made which resulted in few limitation been introduced for content type level workflows. Please note that as far as AgilePoint NX is concerned this…
Extending AgilePoint Platform – No hitting the Brickwall here
Most of the AgilePoint customers use AgilePoint as a process enabling platform for which becomes a backbone of their entire IT infrastructure. The reason for this is that AgilePoint does not limit you to just OOTB functionality but provides an extremely extensible framework of components which can added on top of the ones available OOTB….
BPMN support for AgilePoint NX Process Modeler
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…
SharePoint Term Store lookup and Managed Metadata column support in eForms
For any company which works with SharePoint 2013 and beyond, managed metadata and term store support is something you will run into often. I have recorded a video which covers the support for managed metadata and ability to bind SharePoint term set lookup to a dropdown kind of control. This enables users to lookup a term set…
How to Access Custom Database in AgilePoint NX OnDemand Trial
One of the commonly sought after features in cloud trial environment is to provide an additional database to prospects and clients where they can create their own tables for lookups and storing data during evaluation. This is certainly is an additional feature which we did not want to be missing during evaluations. Also internal consultants would need…
Local file system as file repository for eForms
When it comes to supporting document repositories for file upload, AgilePoint provides a wide array of choices as shown below. At the time of writing this article, support for NetSuite, FTP and SFTP were just about to be released so are missing from the screenshot but would be made available in a month’s time. The list…
Upload large files using eForms
In a regular scenario people usually upload files ranging from few Kilobytes to few Megabytes only but in some rare scenarios there is a use case to upload large file as big as hundreds on Megabytes through the form. AgilePoint NX eForms makes file upload max limit configurable through the file upload control as shown below However…
SharePoint Item Permission Demo
Sometimes when you are creating a SharePoint app, a question comes up that can you use SharePoint native ListForm capability. However the immediate question which pops up in their mind is that now since you are making me go to the SharePoint list to kickoff a process or perform certain actions, how can AgilePoint do…
Multi Lingual Forms
Ability to define multiple languages on the same form is a highly sought after feature by big enterprises who have participants spread across multiple countries. Please do not confuse this with the 10-12 languages in which entire AgilePoint product is localized. This is the feature specific to forms as most of the users directly deal…
Bypass login screen if user is already logged into Office 365 or Salesforce
Often times task assignment emails are sent to users with a link to directly open the task form. This can be achieved by following instructions in the following KB article Create Task Link – Sample However one of the things high on the wish list of the users is to have a way of bypassing…
Powershell error: There is no Runspace available to run scripts in this thread.
While executing a Poweshell Workflow activity if you see following error Exception: System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive. —> System.Management.Automation.PSInvalidOperationException: There is no Runspace available to run scripts in this thread. You can provide one in the DefaultRunspace property of the System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.Runspace type. The script block you attempted…
Pre-populate data on the initial form based on previous process instance data
In some of the client projects you might run into a requirement where they wish to start a new request but instead of making the user fill in all the data from scratch, they wish to copy over the data from one of the previous request they had submitted. This is often the case when…