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RE: How to localize task header fields?

Posted By Andrew Paier Fri March 12, 2021 05:31 PM
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You approach makes sense. I've found in the past that in most of these scenarios the individual instances do not need to be multi-lingual and when you drilled In you could figure out something like "When X is true I show German, otherwise I show English". We would then create a service flow "Get Subject ...

RE: How to localize task header fields?

Posted By Andrew Paier Fri March 12, 2021 10:39 AM
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Unfortunately this capability still does not exist in BAW (AFAIK). The underlying problem, as it existed back when localization was first added, I think is still there. The issue is that the data above is stored directly in the DB when the task is created. They are stored there as strings. The UI that ...

RE: Digital signature in BAW

Posted By Andrew Paier Fri March 05, 2021 03:37 PM
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So, given you only provided a 1 sentence question, here is your 1 sentence answer - Yup. . . . Now, I'm going to assume that isn't very helpful to you, just as your very brief question isn't very useful to people who want to help you. This question is too open-ended to get a good response. I ...

RE: Print documents from BAW

Posted By Andrew Paier Fri March 05, 2021 03:29 PM
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This isn't really a BAW question as the user is interacting with BAW in a web browser, so the real question you need to ask is "How would I do what the customer is asking for from a Web App" and then use that to inform how you want to handle the use case. The limitations / capabilities of that client ...

RE: Create Excel/Word/CSV from BAW

Posted By Andrew Paier Fri March 05, 2021 03:27 PM
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Totally sure this was answered in the discussion forum that existed before this one, but apparently those have gone away. First lets separate "Word" from "Excel" as those are really much different topics. Several of the UI table controls out in the wild have the ability to download a given table as excel. ...

RE: How to transfer file using a webservice?

Posted By Andrew Paier Wed March 03, 2021 10:02 AM
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There are ways to display Base64 files in a browser for example this entry on stack overflow. The issue will likely be the exact format for that is going to differ based on the underlying file type, and if what you really want to do is download the file you likely need to do something more like this. ...

RE: How to transfer file using a webservice?

Posted By Andrew Paier Tue March 02, 2021 12:47 PM
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Due to how variables are handled in the BPM engine it is not safe to place the binary data of a file in a variable in its raw form. The issue is that some combinations of the potential file content can look like "escape" characters to the engine and cause an error. For this reason all the ECM* data types ...

RE: Long processes and parallel synchronous dependent processes

Posted By Andrew Paier Tue February 16, 2021 05:46 PM
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So let me start with the specific and then go to the abstract for the Create / Change question. Specific - I can't get my head wrapped around how one is supposed to go about "changing" an entity that hasn't completed creation. That sounds very bodged together and slightly broken. What I could see ...

RE: two instance are created when calling start Message Event

Posted By Andrew Paier Tue February 16, 2021 05:22 PM
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As @Thong Huynh stated this is a very common use case so it is unlikely it is broken. Is the UCA in a toolkit? If so maybe there is more than one BPD that is watching for it? Say, perhaps, a developer duplicated the PA to test something out and so you are seeing 2 instance but from different PA?​ ...

RE: How to get instance variable values within a human task after it is started?

Posted By Andrew Paier Thu February 11, 2021 10:47 AM
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Excellent find! I vaguely remember that perhaps in the past there were some problems with those calls. This might be bad memory on my part of a bug that has since been fixed. I want to say that there was a problem retrieving complex/nested types that way. Can you share if you are pulling Business Objects ...

RE: How to get instance variable values within a human task after it is started?

Posted By Andrew Paier Wed February 10, 2021 04:59 PM
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The instance variables can be read using the ReST API. I'd assume they pick up on the changes made via that JS call (but I've not tested that) ------------------------------ Andrew PaierAndrew Paier ------------------------------

RE: Database connection to Excel sheet

Posted By Andrew Paier Tue February 09, 2021 03:23 PM
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Based on screen shots and context I think you are talking past one another. The original question was referencing Automation Anywhere, which was bundled with BAW for ~12-18 month. But IBM bought a company called WDG (I think) that has an RPA solution that has since been re-branded IBM RPA. I think the ...

RE: Installer

Posted By Andrew Paier Tue February 09, 2021 03:08 PM
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If you are in an organization that is an IBM Partner, you can generally find downloads on Partner World. If you are a customer I'd reach out to your Sales person / Support. If you don't have a relationship with IBM yet, I think your only option for access is to see if there is a free/trial tier for the ...

RE: Process center server does not contain sufficient capabilities... error while activating a snapshot

Posted By Andrew Paier Thu January 14, 2021 03:50 PM
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I'm not convinced this is tied to that as the underlying problem. If you were having problems importing, then that would make sense. Or if it was failing when attempting to execute that would point to a problem with Advances / Standard cross over. But all the server we use in our Lab are Advanced, and ...

RE: Process center server does not contain sufficient capabilities... error while activating a snapshot

Posted By Andrew Paier Wed January 13, 2021 10:12 AM
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It is not only possible, but definitely the case. I mentioned above in the thread that if you were using capabilities beyond what the Process Designer provides, you need to have additional binaries installed. I believe that "Advanced Toolkits" are generated using IID and requires an Advanced install ...

RE: Process center server does not contain sufficient capabilities... error while activating a snapshot

Posted By Andrew Paier Mon January 11, 2021 01:41 PM
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Unless you have done something to specifically prevent it, in the Process Center all snapshots are available to run. They may not have a shortcut in the portal (because would make the UI unusable in the real world) but you can use either the Process Designer or ReST API to launch a BPD or service on ...

RE: Process center server does not contain sufficient capabilities... error while activating a snapshot

Posted By Andrew Paier Mon January 11, 2021 01:01 PM
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I'm a little confused about "activating" the PA on the Process Center as this isn't typically something you need to do on the PC as every application on the PC is Active unless you deactivate it. This might be what is causing the problem. What problem are you trying to solve by "Activating" it? I ...

RE: Unexpected flow error sign without flow error

Posted By Andrew Paier Fri January 08, 2021 10:56 AM
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When you click on the service in your process app, it is going to bring up the version of the services that exists on the snapshot you are referencing in your PA. When you open the TK directly in designer, it is going to bring up the "Tip" version of that service. It is possible the service had problems ...

RE: Design Approach :Lock on Parallel Task IBM BPM

Posted By Andrew Paier Fri December 25, 2020 05:00 PM
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I will start by saying "This way lies madness" only because you will get into increasingly annoying corner cases. Things like - Team 2 started working their task, then Team 1 decides to edit, so what happens to what Team 2 is doing? Or Team 1 started editing, but didn't finish the task. They expected ...

RE: BPM - SQL like query syntax

Posted By Andrew Paier Thu December 24, 2020 09:04 PM
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In case you ever need to check out exactly how to do this, the DB connector is just a wrapper to the Java Prepared Statement. Part of this is that if you set it up right, doing things like adding quotes around values is not required. So you really want your statement to be something like (ignoring your ...