https://afdoc.dbis.institute/tools/Recent content in Tools on AristaFlow User ManualHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSat, 06 Jun 2020 16:54:34 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/tools/process-template-editor/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 16:56:47 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/tools/process-template-editor/GUI orientation In the following you will learn what the Process Template Editor is, what it does, what it looks like. As the tools’ GUIs are derived from the Eclipse framework, you’ll find similarities if your familiar with it. There are at least five different areas basically, depending on how you count, and we’ll go from left to right and top to bottom. Explorer So on the left side you have this column with three different tabs.https://afdoc.dbis.institute/tools/activity-repository-editor/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:20:30 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/tools/activity-repository-editor/Purpose The AristaFlow Activity Respository Editor, short ARE, introduces activities of all sorts to the system in form of activity templates. Activity Template In general some process steps appear in the context of different processes, like “write invoice” for example. To have maintainable models, it’s useful to have a template that implements that function and that can be used over and over again. An activity template consists of two parts. The template interface and the implementation itself.https://afdoc.dbis.institute/tools/orgmodel-editor/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:26:08 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/tools/orgmodel-editor/The OrgModel Editor creates and maintains the organizational model, which is very expressive and allows for mapping of complex company structures. GUI orientation We have three columns. If you only see two, just double click on an entity in the entity list (middle column in the figure). On the left side the different entity types of the organizational model are shown. Here you can add, change and delete attributes for the entity types.https://afdoc.dbis.institute/tools/clients/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:28:21 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/tools/clients/TestClient You will most probably come in contact with the TestClient as a client first. So we’ll start with that and explain later what is different in the standard client. With the TestClient it is possible to test the modelled process from very early stages on. The process just has to be structurally correct but can lack assigned applications and workers. AristaFlow will create according forms automatically, so one can see the input parameters and type in the output parameters of that activity by hand.https://afdoc.dbis.institute/tools/process-monitor/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:33:15 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/tools/process-monitor/The process monitor is for system specialists to control running process instances. Authorized users can check the current state of an activity or look into the execution history of a process instance or into the log file of the corresponding execution service. The monitor is also able to suspend / abort / reset failed activities and even whole process instances and do ad-hoc changes on a process instance. GUI orientation On the top right you can see the current state of a process instance, comparable to the view in a normal client.https://afdoc.dbis.institute/tools/process-server/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:34:29 +0200https://afdoc.dbis.institute/tools/process-server/The server is the main component of the suite. It manages the running process instances, the runnable process schemas, the Activity Repository and the organisational model. It works with a relational database internally, which has to have a JDBC interface. The server is based on an extendable architecture with focus on scalability, performance and maintainability. If you checked the option “install as service” at the installation of AristaFlow you will be able to start the server explicitly by a batch file, like you see in the figure below.