https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/Recent content in Basic User Tutorial on AristaFlow User ManualHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSat, 06 Jun 2020 17:36:11 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/installation/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:39:22 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/installation/All files can either be downloaded in the Moodle course or are provided by your supervisor. Supported Operating Systems Windows Linux Install License Copy the jar to {af.installDir}\server\lib and {af.installDir}\testclient\plugins (e.g., to C:\AristaFlow-X.X.X\server\lib etc.) Restart the server and all client applications, if running. Register Server and Automatic Client as Windows Service Run ServiceManager.exe Choose your Installation Directory of AristaFlow (Default: C:\AristaFlow-1.x.x) Choose “Ersetzen aller existierenden Dienste” in the Dropdown Menu (see Figure below) Activate “installieren” and “starten” for every Service (i.https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/getting-started/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:43:18 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/getting-started/Login Before we can run our new process we first have to model it. For that we open the Process Template Editor (PTE), which you can usually find under programs -> AristaFlow BPM Suite in the start menu or directly in the installation folder. Because we have installed the complete suite for demonstration purposes we can log in with user “supervisor” and password “password”. Then we should see the Process Template Editor, which is described in more detail in the tools chapter above.https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/creating-a-process-template/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:44:06 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/creating-a-process-template/Before we can start to model our process, we first have to make a new project and a template that we change from scratch into our desired process. There are several ways to create a new project. One way is to click on “File” in the top menu bar, “New” and then “AristaFlow Project”. A pop up opens and we enter a meaningful name, e.g. “Pizza”. If you like you can change the directory where the project will be stored.https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/control-flow-modeling/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:45:52 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/control-flow-modeling/If you’ve already read the introduction you know that in AristaFlow you don’t set the control flow into place by drawing the necessary elements or by connecting given elements by hand. Instead there is a strict set of operations you can apply only under certain circumstances, preventing erroneous structures from ever occurring in the first place. Thereby you have Correctness by Construction and make extra error checks regarding the structure unnecessary.https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/data-flow-modeling/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:48:48 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/data-flow-modeling/In a business environment data will accumulate. So it must be orchestrated, too. Just like in the control flow modelling you decide the degree of abstraction. Of course AristaFlow can only handle the data that you model. In the following we will need to be able to deal with following data: Order, STRING Delivery, BOOLEAN Unfortunately we cannot model the pizza itself so instead of attaching it to the data flow like a PDF for the driver to download it later, that part has to bypass the system.https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/assign-activities-part-1/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:50:28 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/assign-activities-part-1/If you come here for the first time you will have to do the following steps first, before moving on to assigning activities. First we have to learn how activity assignment works in general and secondly set it up before we can actually use them. Activity Templates What we’ve done until now isn’t really more than drawing our process, which could have been done with simpler tools, too. This is good to communicate the general idea of the eventual productive system (Rapid Prototyping).https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/assign-activities-part-2/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:51:20 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/assign-activities-part-2/We already learned that activities are managed in a separate program, called the Activity Repository Editor (ARE), but we can access them via the Activity Repository Browser (ARB) within the PTE. You can find the Browser in the tab right next to the package explorer, where your projects are listed. XOR To select an activity we have to drill down the tree menu and then drag the activity onto the desired process step.https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/assign-staff/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:54:45 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/assign-staff/Just like any other modern company our pizza delivery is based on the division of labour. So in order to assign employees to each process step (or more precisely staff assignment rules), we have to map our team to the AristaFlow OrgModel first. The OrgModel is completely separate from our process, the process is exchangeable. So we have to start another tool, namely the OrgModel Editor (OME). You should find it in the same location as the other suite tools.https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/deployment-and-execution/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:56:48 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/deployment-and-execution/Deployment of the Request for Time off process To run the process in a productive environment and actually make use of it, we need to upload it to the server, i.e. we have to check in the template for the server to “see” it. For that we simply drag and drop the template from the “Local Projects” view down to the TemplateManagerView at the bottom of the PTE. But first we have to make sure that every process step has an activity and a staff assignment rule assigned.https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/monitoring-and-analyzing/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:58:22 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/monitoring-and-analyzing/We can monitor a process as it is being executed. But there is also a much mightier tool for monitoring, the AristaFlow Monitor. Log in with supervisor / password. On the left side you can search and filter for specific process templates. But it shouldn’t be of much effort to find our pizza process. If you double-click it, the view of all instances of this process template opens in the workspace.https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/running-the-test-client/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:59:39 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/basic-user-tutorial/running-the-test-client/If AristaFlow ensures Correctness by Construction, why do we need to test the process ourselves? The answer is to ensure semantical correctness - does the process what we thought it would do, what we intended? This is possible at any time during modelling. It contrast to a productive environment we don’t need to have activities or staff assigned. So we start the process in test mode and can play through every path that we like.