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…
AgilePoint NX SAP Integration – How to use end user credentials at runtime
SAP is one system where people do not like to run things under a service account. They want to see transactions being recorded with end user name specially when posting data back to SAP. Most of them are fine when it comes to reading data with service account but not when it comes to posting…
Reusable SharePoint Workflows
One of the topics which comes up is that can I reuse the same workflow against multiple SharePoint site collections or even SharePoint farms. No one would prefer to clone apps for each site collection unless the logic is different. Prior version of AgilePoint had SharePoint access token was scoped at a site collection level which…
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…
Single Sign On for AgilePoint NX OnPremises
A JavaScript based system cannot utilize windows authentication directly in the browser. Windows Authentication is not an option in a client side form technology as you cannot obtain windows users username and password in JavaScript. That is only going to work on server side technology like ASP.Net. Also even for ASP.Net it won’t work on browser…
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…
Read data from excel sheet and populate on eForms
Sometimes the requirement is to have an AgilePoint eForm in which an Excel file can be uploaded. Once uploaded we need to grab the data in the Excel file and populate it to the different fields in the form. There are N number of ways of doing this based on Effort VS Reusability Vs Customer’s willingness…
Barcode control in AgilePoint NX eform
In this article, I would demonstrate how to use a 3rd party barcode generation service and render the returned result back in the form. Though I have used an open source service for the sample app, same concept would work for any of the paid subscription service for barcode generation. Start by creating a form…
Perform a SAP transaction through process model
Transaction plays a very important role in the SAP world and often times you would run into SAP BAPI’s which will not commit data till the transaction has been terminated properly. In this article I am going to cover how to call a SAP BAPI which needs to be part of transaction. Before we begin,…