As part of a recent product briefing, I created a fairly comprehensive application with multiple integrations from scratch using AgilePoint NX v9.0 in less than 2 hrs which is shown in the video at the end of the post. If you’ve never heard of the low code approach to app development before then get ready…
Category: AgilePoint NX Server
Efficiently Monitor the AgilePoint Cluster Performance
In this article, I will be covering a feature requested quite often by system administrators – ability to monitor system load parameters of the AgilePoint NX cluster. It is pretty common for bigger enterprises to have a load balanced environment with multiple AgilePoint servers in a cluster. As part of AgilePoint NX V9.0 product rollout,…
BPM Vs Orchestration Platform – The Big Picture
A question which we come across many times is whether AgilePoint BPM platform and Orchestration platforms (iPaaS) compete with each other, and if yes, does AgilePoint play any role in the iPaaS world? This topic is frequently on the minds of business leaders. Should the integration problem be solved using an integration solution (like MuleSoft,…
Configure Active Directory Authentication to Use Bearer Token Instead of Basic Authentication
In this article we will see how you can make your active directory authentication with AgilePoint NX more secure using a Bearer token. Before we dive into this topic, lets understand the terminology around Bearer tokens and JSON Web Token (JWT) token as they are used interchangeably. JWT is an encoding standard for tokens that…
Custom Announcements Through AgilePoint NX Portal
Every system administrator, at some point, needs to make few key announcements to the entire user base. Today most system admins make use of emails or company announcement systems to send such notifications but there are very high chances that users do not pay attention to such notifications. It is better to show notification to…
AgilePoint’s Webhooks – Are Your Apps Listening?
Before we deep dive into this topic, lets first understand what are Webhooks. Webhooks are automated messages sent from apps to pre-configured endpoints when something happens. They have a payload that is sent to a unique URL. They’re a simple way your online accounts can talk to each other and get notified automatically when something…
AgilePoint NX Connector for Blue Prism RPA
AgilePoint’s NX solution combines all the features and components of RPA, DPA and Business Process Management (BPM) into a single, future-proof digital transformation platform that allows critical business applications to evolve and adapt at the same pace, while it supports trending technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and Internet of Things without the need to…
Display Scheduled Maintenance Notification on AgilePoint Portal
Every system administrator, at some point, needs to take an important service like AgilePoint NX server and portal offline temporarily, for scheduled maintenance or for upgrades. This article provides guidance on what to include in a downtime announcement and how to communicate upcoming maintenance windows to your users. If at all possible, give your users…
Advanced AgilePoint NX Application – Build from Scratch
As part of a recent analyst briefing, I created a fairly comprehensive application with multiple integrations from scratch in less than 60 mins which is shown in the video at the end of the post. If you’ve never heard of the low code approach to app development before then get ready because you’re about to…
Extending your AgilePoint NX Platform
In this blog post, we are going to see how you can extend the capabilities of AgilePoint NX platform. Every client environment is different and it is not a case of one size fits all. For a low-code product to be considered enterprise grade, it needs to have a solid platform architecture which is highly…
EXTEND AND MAKE RPA STRATEGIC TO IT TEAM WITH AN ENTERPRISE-CLASS LOW-CODE BPMS
(Watch the 8 minutes video at the end of the article to learn how to take RPA to a new height!) In future humans would be evaluated on their ability to work with robots. Tremendous hunger to show efficiencies exist in organizations trying to outsmart their competition. With Robotic Process Automation (RPA) coming into prominence over…
Daily Digest Emails with AgilePoint NX
Daily digest email is a topic which comes up sometimes during the discussion. It can be a tricky topic when it comes to task specific emails and has multiple facets to it which I have covered in the article. Requirement: Workforce participates in multiple business processes which assigns tasks to them and in the process…
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…
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…
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…
Adding Participants on the fly to a AgilePoint NX Process Instance
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…
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….
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…
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…
Domain name auto appends to username when task is assigned
AgilePoint NX server auto appends the domain name to the username while assigning the task to them in case username is specified in the participant property and it does not contain domain name. This is for the convenience of process designer so that he does not explicitly add the domain name to username which is…