What’s new in IYOPRO

This section provides information about the latest releases of IYOPRO.

v2.1.78.9.9

Web Portal

  • If you have an upload control in your form, you can now easily add your files using drag and drop

Workflow

  • Sankey links are now also possible in the workflow area! Anyone who has ever simulated a process knows the Sankey links and their benefits. Visualize the runs through Sankey links in the process instance details of the app Details

Modeling

  • IYOPRO AI: Artificial intelligence with IYOPRO! Have processes and process maps including descriptions suggested to you using the new AI function. Or would you like to have your documentation reformulated in a variety of styles? All you need is the AI ​​Feature license and you can get started Details

    Currently only activated for the IYOPRO SaaS, but of course activation will also come for on-premises installations
  • Projects that have been opened without a solution in the process explorer now also have a context menu Details

Simulation

  • Get to know the SimulationContext extensions!

    Allocate resources for the runtime of, for example, an entire subprocess, transform one product into another without losing the history and much more Details

  • From now on you can also set the activity duration using a script Details

  • When executing a gateway, differentiate between checking whether a path should be followed and executing the script when a path has been followed Details

  • Use the new "Incoming / Outgoing Token Mode" simulation properties of an activity to control the number of incoming and outgoing tokens Details

  • Use the new "Terminate Expression" simulation property of a diagram to define an expression that is to be executed as soon as a process ends Details

  • Now you can also use the conditional intermediate event! Details

  • You get a new gateway type: Virtual Activity Gateway. This gateway is actually only indirectly a gateway, since it is modeled exclusively by conditional sequence paths. It corresponds to a split-only inclusive gateway Details

  • The output of the debug log has been optimized: For example, you can now filter in the debug report or have the respective control marked in the diagram by double-clicking in the debug report Details

General

  • You now have the option of deactivating the manual absence management company-wide or at team level and thus making absence management only possible via workflow Details

  • Importing .iyp files is now even more convenient. Simply open the file stored on your system directly in the app by double-clicking it

v2.1.73.5.4

Web Portal

  • The release candidate of the mobile view for editing forms is here!

  • If you manage task participants using the process instance details, you can now directly see whether and who has already accepted a task

  • Now you can easily maximize your documents using the "Maximize" button in the view ribbon

  • Personalize your IYOPRO web even further by placing your logo in the footer or changing the font

  • The GUI options are saved in the user profile: No matter which PC or browser you use, you will get the view you have set

Workflow

  • Do you want to inform users about something in the context of task processing, but don’t want to have to show and hide a form element? No problem. You now have the opportunity to achieve exactly this by using the notify() method in an expression

  • IYOPRO can now also support the latest IronPython version 3.4. If you would like to switch from Python 2 to 3, please contact us

General

  • Importing a solution has been simplified in that the bin file of a workflow is no longer part of the import

  • We have put together new snippets for you. You can find the insert button when you can add a Python expression to an element

  • Want to check if your service is running normally? No problem. The functionality for monitoring the system has been expanded. The new information can be evaluated automatically

  • There are now extended system performance logging options

v2.1.69.8.1

Web Portal

  • You want the workflow lists to be narrower, but then you can’t always read the entire title? No problem, from now on you can simply display the tooltip for truncated texts in the lists

  • It is now even easier for you to identify tasks that you are supposed to do on behalf of someone else. On the one hand, this is indicated by a different icon in the task list. On the other hand, you will receive the corresponding information in the form and can easily take over the task

  • If you navigate via the folders or if you have a diagram open, you will now see the associated breadcrumbs at the bottom, which show you the folder path followed

  • Activate the new feature of the panels and use the automatic size adjustment from now on. Depending on the focus, the width of a panel, such as the task list or the diagram description, is changed in such a way that either this panel or, as usual, the diagram area is displayed larger

General

  • There is now a new column "Last Login" in the license key assignment, which should further support you as a license manager. In addition, the filter in the license assignment has been extended for you

  • If you have a license key that is not yet known on your on-premises system, you no longer have to wait for the periodic update that gets information about available licenses or start a manual update. If a license key is not known when it is entered, it is now directly and automatically requested from the server

v2.1.69.0.9

Web Portal

  • In the process instance details, you can now sort the attributes and get an even easier overview of your process instance data

  • Now you can easily empty the filter of the workflow lists using the X

  • Open a referenced documentation page not only in the same tab as usual, but in a new one instead. To do this, you can easily select an element and use the toolbar that appears, or you can use the shortcut Ctrl + click

  • Switch between the standard menu bar and a more compact view of the menu bar with just a button click

  • Get more information on the welcome page. See which teams you haven’t assigned substitutes for, whether colleagues are absent today, and when you’ll be absent next

Workflow

  • Specify one or more test users in the Workflow Build Options of a workflow who are allowed to see the development version of that workflow in the runnable list in the web portal

  • In the data table there is the possibility to add an action. The user can simply click on the button displayed in the data table row and the defined action will be carried out

  • Use ScriptContext to define case distinctions for workflow expressions depending on the given workflow setting, point of execution and user actions

  • Monitor your workflow queues under the technical options of the process instance list. In addition, depending on your privileges to perform system administration functions, you can disable or enable the processing of jobs. You can also see whether IYOPRO is in normal service mode or in recovery mode

  • You can now use an extended version of the alert() method. Personalize your alert by defining your own title, a different icon and a timeout in addition to the message

General

  • Are you looking for a specific user or group in your team in the repository? No problem. We simplified your search by allowing you to easily filter for what you are looking for under the user or group node

  • The portal buttons in the modeling environment now open the new web portal by default. If you would like the buttons to continue to open the internal portal, you can either define this company-wide in the configuration or only for yourself in the preferences

  • In AD synchronisation, there are now more flexible options for selecting the source

v2.1.66.4.4

Connection of IYOPRO Web and App

A particular highlight is the new connection between the IYOPRO web portal and the IYOPRO app.

Open links either in the web portal or in the app and easily switch from the diagrams displayed in the web portal to the app.

Web Portal

  • You can now display files from the repository in the Web Portal and open solutions and projects in a process explorer

  • Undock your forms and have them displayed in a separate browser tab

  • Show your finished instances filtered. Decide for yourself whether you want to display them e.g. since last week, last month or a specific date

  • You can now also change the participants of a workflow task in the instance details in the portal

  • Do you have a lot of open tabs and don’t feel like closing them individually? No problem! Simply use the small tab menu for this

  • Create links for diagrams of the repository or for documentation pages with the Copy URL button or the key combination Ctrl + C

  • Simply open your diagram in the IYOPRO app by clicking on the IYOPRO symbol in the gray menu bar

  • Get to know the extended window management and, for example, place your task list in the middle like a diagram page. Your desired position will of course be remembered for the next time.

Workflow

  • Define the default substitute for someone else: The default team substitute has not yet been specified for an employee, he is now on vacation and one of his tasks cannot wait? You now have the option of specifying a substitute for someone else in the repository under the team’s user node

  • There is now an API user for using the API in Python. The API user is entered in the workflow build options and authorizes the use of the API within the workflow

  • The process instance GUID as response header: Depending on the system configuration, IYOPRO responds with a HTML page containing a description of the call result or structured result information. Additionally to the state, you now have the option to see the process instance GUID as response header

v2.1.63.3.6

The new IYOPRO desktop client is here!

You don’t want to work with Silverlight anymore because the end of support is imminent? No problem! With the IYOPRO desktop client, we offer you a Silverlight-independent alternative. Of course, that doesn’t mean the original client is gone.

Portal

  • Set your surface colors. For example, change your color scheme from light to dark theme or easily adjust the surface colors individually using the color sliders

  • In the workflow lists, you now have more options for sorting and grouping your content

  • You can now also display the development workflows and not just the active workflows in the list of runnable workflows

Workflow

  • There are new design functions in the form, such as a maximum width of controls and the possibility of giving individual controls a dynamic height

  • With the new DateRangePicker control for the forms, you no longer only have the option of selecting a single date, but also a date range

  • An initial priority can now be specified via the properties or the script of a user task

  • If text fields with actions have been defined in your forms, these are now visualized using a button and can also be executed with it

  • There is now an embedded view for tasks and instances that can be opened, for example, via links in e-mails

  • It is now possible to use user databases in callback functions

v1.59.5.8

New Portal

  • You can no longer only display the description of your diagrams in your documentation, but also advanced properties. Whether user-defined attributes, tags or responsibilities, if you have documented them, you can now find them together with your diagrams in the new portal

  • The new portal offers you the possibility to manage your user profile, completely detached from the IYOPRO modeling environment

  • It is possible for you to expand the new portal with plugins

General

We have extended the key assignment for you so that you can now assign your various licenses specifically. For example, if you have several license keys of the same license type, you can now decide for yourself which license key the user should get his license from

v1.57.2.0

Release Candidate of the new web client

Workflow

  • You are now able to configure a default name for the version of a workflow

  • We expanded your options when using data stores. When referencing files, you can change a relative path to an absolute path with just one click on a button

  • Use a script file as a template for an HTML-Control in a form. Simply import a script file that contains the desired HTML code instead of writing the code directly into the HTML control.

v1.54.1.3

Repository

  • We have further developed the import and export of solutions and linked projects for you. You can now use this functionality even more easily. For example, you get more support for links and you can use the import based on the copy function of the Explorer

  • We have enhanced the filter of the list of workflow tasks and workflow instances so that you can also filter through configurable columns

Modeling

You now have the option of choosing whether to display the current version or a previous one when using a URL to load a diagram

Workflow

  • We present the new HTML control for forms. Design your forms with your own elements. Easily integrate videos, graphics and more

  • You can now disable any lines in a data grid

  • The process instance ID as response header: Depending on the system configuration, IYOPRO responds with a HTML page containing a description of the call result or structured result information. Additionally to the state, you now have the option to see the process instance ID as response header

  • Decide individually whether the submit button of the page break element of a form should be displayed or not

  • You can now also use the OnDrop handler for the Textbox element. Simply specify in the associated element script what should happen when you drag text into a Textbox

  • IYOPRO now has an adapter for connecting to SharePoint

  • You can now configure who has access to instances and forms in addition to the team administrators

v1.51.2.6

General

The performance of the database access has been significantly improved.

Modeling

  • When creating a role, language-neutral keywords can be maintained.

  • Now you can change roles in your organization diagrams.

Workflow

  • The delegate notification template also allows the subject line to be dynamically assembled using process instance attributes.

  • The process designer can now specifically determine which version of a workflow to use for new process instances.

  • The workflow file ID is used to start the currently active version of a workflow.

  • The support for parallel subprocesses within a shared process instance has been significantly improved. Subprocesses can now receive private process attributes.
    Access to process attributes of other subprocesses as well as the main processes is also possible.

  • In the condition editor (for example, form visibility), the inequality operator has been added. In addition, the terms have been improved.

  • For forms, a rich text element can be used to format texts arbitrarily.

  • The condition, whether a form can be sent or not, can be additionally specified by the process designer.

  • Turning the page break element can be assisted by script actions.

  • Using the alert() function, the script execution can be aborted with a message.

  • The pre-delete callback was introduced on the process instance level.

v1.48.8.1

Modeling

you can directly safe altered diagrams when closing

Workflow

  • Workflows can now be versioned. There are productive as well as development workflows.

  • The status of a process instance is recently available as a separate page. Users can include the status external.

  • You can repeatedly execute tasks based on collections

  • The Timer Start Event supports now the time-based start of processes

  • Sub-processes can now be executed in the context of main processes so that only one process instance is generated

  • The IYOPRO-web service is now able to return result codes when sending a message to a process

  • It is now possible to process XML when receiving IYOPRO process messages

  • Automatic tasks can be suspended to provide computation time for other processes (cooperative multitasking)

  • It is now possible to exit at a defined script point and optionally return a value

Forms

there are now extended possibilities available when defining options of drop down elements

On-premises installation

  • You are now able to incorporate customized translations of the user interface

  • Workflow: one can now define individual e-mail templates for delegation as well as for the substitute rule

v1.38.8.3

Repository

Recent Items in the repository can be opened via URL.

Repository/Portal

  • The structure of current tasks and process instances on the desktop has been improved.

  • Word exports of diagram views are available in the documentation portal now.

Modeling

  • Diagrams can be pinned to the main menu now.

  • BPMN shapes can be customized now.

  • Various rules have been added to the model validation.

IT System Diagram

IT System Diagrams now support bidirectional data associations.

Organization Diagram

  • The import of LDAP users and groups allows to filter entries now.

  • Inherited roles of organization units are now presented.

Workflow

  • Finding a process instances via attribute name and value (IYOPROSendWorkflowMessage.aspx) supports various data types now.

  • The task participant configurator supports eMail users now.

  • Workflow task icons differ now when another participant is already responsible.

Forms

Groups can have multiline labels now.

v1.35.8.6

Repository

  • The query mask of the advanced search can now be cleared.

  • The type filter in the advanced search now contains a predefined list of values.

  • Data and folders can now be filtered in the search results of the advanced search.

  • The repository path of data can now be copied into the clipboard.

Modeling

  • A new context menu on document tabs enables you to close single diagrams or all diagrams.

  • In addition to their name diagrams now have a title property which will replace the diagram name Word and HTML exports if it’s set.

  • Solutions can now be renamed in the process explorer.

  • The scaling behaviour of BPMN artefacts has been adjusted.

  • Property changes can now be undone.

  • Validation of the BPMN rule set has been improved.

Workflow

  • User tasks can have a due date now.

  • Various users can share the same Email address now and still participate a workflow together.

  • Tasks can now be prioritized in the Task overview.

  • The list of running process instances will now be refreshed when a new workflow is started.

  • The process instance details have a new layout.

  • The list of participants for workflow tasks can now be administrated during run-time.

  • Workflow tasks will now be created when if no participant could be found.

  • The binding syntax has been expanded and supports converters.

Forms

  • Drop down values in data tables can now be arranged.

  • Buttons in embedded forms can now trigger actions in other systems.

  • Date pickers in forms can now contain dates before 1970.

  • The field focus in forms now supports groups and pages.

Documentation

  • A monthly user statistic has been provided in the documentation.

  • Diagrams in documentations can now be printed.

  • Diagrams in documentations can now be exported as Word documents.

  • A search dialog on documentation pages has been added.

  • Results of the search on diagrams will now now be highlighted in the diagram.

  • The general and advanced search dialogs can now be accessed from every documentation pages.

  • News will now provide information about the diagram they are related to.

  • Comments can only be edited by their creator.

Library

  • Empty library folders will not be presented in the process explorer anymore.

  • More icons for different BPMN shapes have been added to ensure an easy determination of library elements.

v1.30.7.6

User Interface

IYOPRO is available in polish language now.

Repository / Portal

  • By pressing a character’s key on the keyboard, the next row in a file table can be selected where the file’s or folder’s name is beginning with this character.

  • The process instance dialog has a button to refresh now.

  • There are no more empty folders for tasks in the repository tree.

  • The task list contains the information who has started the process.

  • The task list contains the current process instance details.

  • There is a context menu on the tasks list now.

  • Solutions are part of the recent items now.

  • The recent items list is expanded to 25 items.

  • There is a hyperlink to the recent items on the welcome page.

  • The user list of LDAP synchronized user groups can be scrolled.

  • Search results don’t show double entries for recent items anymore.

Modeling

  • There is a user setting for the default diagram language now.

  • There is a user setting for the default script language now.

  • The performance of loading and renering diagrams is enhanced.

  • Visibility and deactivation rule values can be constants now.

  • The URL editor supports UNC paths now.

  • The URL editor supports drag 'n' drop and local paths now, if IYOPRO runs out of browser.

  • Clicking the OK button of the dialog to add elements to projects is only allowed once.

Workflow

  • Terminate end events are support in workflows now.

  • Cancel end events in transaction sub processes are supported in workflows now.

  • The user’s security id (of users synchronized via LDAP) are now accessible from pythons scripts.

  • The process instances of a workflow are deleted now by deleting the workflow file.

Forms

  • The form control’s sizes are harmonised.

  • The first error is scrolld into view by turning on the form checking.

  • Double values are supported by drop down menus now.

  • There is no substitute count on start forms anymore.

  • The column type "single" supports different verification rules now.

  • Forms can be cleared now.

  • Drop down controls in data grids are sorted by the displayed value now.

  • The first control is focused automatically.

Documentation

  • There is a save dialog - if needed - before the documentation can be created.

  • The creation of a documentation works independent of the already loaded diagrams. Unsaved changes are not part of the created documentation.

  • The messages of errors creating a documentation are better.

  • No empty folders are created anymore.

  • The visible detail of a diagram is scaled by maximizing the diagram area.

  • There are no description templates on documentation pages anymore.

  • Comments can only be edited by its creator.

  • Comments can only be deleted by its creator or an administrator of the team.

Word Export

  • Elements without pool are now grouped and can be orderd like elements part of a pool.

  • Process maps can be exported now.

Library

  • The process explorer’s Library-Node is refreshed by deleting a library item.

  • A library item can not be opend multiple times as document.

v1.27.4.1

User Interface

Documents can be displayed in a maximized mode.

Modeling

  • Extended Attributes can be appended to diagrams.

  • New properties for grid lines, view control and preview functionalities have been added to the preference settings.

  • Element names can contain hyperlinks now.

Workflow

  • Substitutes can now be defined to adapt workflow tasks while the actual user is absent.

  • Workflow tasks can now be delegated to other users.

  • Workflow attributes can be edited in the portal.

  • Python constructs "ImportModule" and "Database" are now available in start forms.

  • The ID of Workflows is now available via Workflow.Id.

  • Users can now be informed about a broken workflow via e-mail.

  • Individual batch queues are now available for workflows.

Forms

  • Data grids and groups in forms can now be disabled. Furthermore Data grids in forms can now contain drop down lists and textboxes in data grids are now editable.

  • Hints for form elements like text boxes are displayed in the control itself now.

  • New data types have been implemented for data grids: Integer und Float.

  • The usage of variables on form level will direct all dictionary entries to the web client (e.g. for visibility, disablement)

  • Column definitions of data grids can now access form data via \{Binding Form:<VarName>}.

  • The label of upload controls can now be customized.

  • Date pickers can work without timezones now.

Repository / Portal

  • The starting page in the portal can be changed by users now.

  • The portal will be opened maximized and received a button to close it.

  • Hyperlinks to specific portal and repository pages can be copied to clipboard now.

  • The search can be limited to specific folders now.

Documentation

  • Customer settings and new entities (including entities of choreography and conversation diagrams) are supported now.

  • The creation of documentations has been accelerated. Documentations are created in the background now, which enables the user to continue working. Users will be informed when their documentation creation is finished.

  • Release workflows can now contain workflow details. Release workflow instances can now be deleted automatically when their related documentation package has been deleted or overwritten

  • Diagrams can be displayed maximized now.

Customer Settings

  • Appliance of opened customer settings can now be done with every license type and active customer settings can now be revoked.

  • Users will be informed now whenever their active customer settings have been changed (those changes are automatically applied).

Word Export

  • Document headlines can now be edited by users and extended attributes can be displayed in the footer of word exports.

  • Data stores and IT systems can now be included.

  • Diagram elements can now be sorted automatically by their process sequence.

  • The currently active views of diagrams can now be exported too.

HTML Export

Data stores and IT systems can now be included.

Layout

  • The standard theme of IYOPRO has been changed. *nThe simulation ribbon will now be displayed permanently.

On Premise

  • Customer settings can be provided centrally.

  • The initial GUI language can be provided centrally.

Active Directory Synchronisation

  • Deactivated users will now be deactivated in IYOPRO too.

  • IYOPRO synchronized AD groups which contain sub groups will be parsed recursively.

  • The SID of users is now available in workflows via Python.

General

Mechanism to lock data for an improved integrity of IYOPRO data has been integrated.

v1.21.8.5

Simulation

  • Histograms in experiment result view now contain activity based costing. Furthermore, you can colorize activities depending on their costs.

  • From now on, you can access the state of resources (idle, busy) within Python scripts. E.g., this can be used at gateway conditions, so that the process will choose a path if the corresponding resource is free, and the other path if it’s not.

  • The performance of the simulation run has been significantly improved.

Forms

  • The technology we render workflow forms in the browser has been changed. Also the style has been modified to give the forms a better look and feel. With this new technology we are able to bring more rich features to the webforms in the future.

  • It’s now possible to query details of the workflow state within workflow forms.

Workflow

  • Embedded workflow forms now support a pre submit handler to allow the hosting application to do additional checks on the form

  • The workflow forms now use the browser language to find out the best language for the web form.

Modeling

  • Beside the existing export features we now additionally provide the SVG image export. SVG images have the advantage that they are vector orientated and may be scaled in any direction without quality loss. This is especially for large diagrams very useful.

  • The library now supports all entity types.

  • Within the process explorer you can now open a folder in the repository using the context menu

  • Within the process explorer you can now open file properties using the context menu

  • Within the process explorer you can now close a solution using the context menu

  • Shape names and their descriptions are now editable in a tabular description editor to give you a better feeling for completeness. The diagram and the editor are positioned side by side and selections are highlighted in both views so the navigation is very intuitive.

Portal

The Welcome screen in the portal now works as expected. Workflow tasks, instances and news have been revised to give the user a better experience.

Userinterface

  • Within the file properties dialog you can now copy the url of the file to the clipboard. This makes it much easier to reference IYOPRO diagrams out of third party applications or web portals.

  • File Properties are now available for all file types

API

The IYOPRO API nor supports the creation and execution of a workflow from a hierarchy of tasks and roles.

v1.19.0.4

Portal

  • The root node of the process documentation now supports a news section. It visualizes information about new or revised processes as well as new or edited comments

  • IYOPRO now supports to subscribe process models. Users with subscriptions receive notes in the news section of the process portal.

  • A new search feature has been implemented to search for specific processes within the portal.

Report

  • The IT-System diagram report now supports data stores as well as it systems.

  • The RACI diagram now includes pools and lanes to resolve participants.

Modeling

  • You can now assign tags to diagrams for classification purposes. Within the search function of the repository you can find diagrams with a given tag.

  • Links between elements (i.e. sequence flows) can now be swapped by a tool-bar button.

  • Process map input, process and output elements now contain a vertical label position attribute to control the vertical alignment

  • With this release we introduce the library feature. The library allows you to store previously defined activities out of your process models for later reuse in an organized way. Reused activities also updates on all diagrams if they are revised. This is especially perfect for automation and workflow processes.

Repository

  • It’s now possible to open a description pane in the files browser. It displays the description of the selected file.

  • There are two new main nodes in the repository: Process Documentation as the root of the deployed process documentation of your organization. Library is the root of all library elements of your teams.

Userinterface

  • Depending on the used browser IYOPRO now supports F1-key for on-line help and Ctrl-S for save.

  • The upper right help icon now shows a pop-up menu to navigate to the online documentation or to send a feedback.

Simulation

  • A new view on your collaboration diagrams includes a model-integrated visualization of simulation parameters, which will help you to parametrize your model at all.

  • Another new view on your collaboration diagrams includes a model-integrated visualization of experiment results parameters, which will help you to understand what happened in your simulation run by give you a first impression on counts and durations.

  • An extra ribbon-tab 'Simulation results' now includes all buttons corresponding to the results of a simulation experiment.

  • You can export all of your simulation results as excel file for now, with the button provided in tab 'simulation results'. The file cosinsts out of several sheets, each representing one of the tables from your report included in IYOPRO.

  • The trace log has been fundamentally redesigned. Use the trace log to record a step-by-step report on executed activities or events of your processes. The trace log now is more readable and ergonomic.

  • The trace log can be exported in MXML-format, which is readable by several process mining software products. You can enhance your analysis, using features provided by process mining technology.

  • The sequence probabilities at gateways and the duration of activities can be set product-dependent, so you can set an individual probability or duration for each product which is expected to be processed.

  • All of the properties which have to be set for a simulation run, can be set with help of a table-based editor. This editor also allows an export as Excel-file of your simulation parameters.

v1.16.0.1

Portal

With this release we introduce the first version of our new IYOPRO portal. The IYOPRO portal solution is a set of features which combines publishing and auditing processes and result in a very simple end user interface to utilize published and approved business process documentations along their life-cycles.

Workflow

  • In conjunction with enhancements to the ProcessInstance-object in Python and our MS-Word adapter it’s now possible to fill out word documents within a script task.

  • Send Message End Events may now trigger Receive Message Start Events within the same BPI-Project without need of webservice round trips. Data may be exchanged very easy due to the message map feature.

  • It’s now possible to get a list of users that are authorized to participate at the workflow within python. This can be used to programmatically forward a user task to another person.

  • IYOPRO now allows the use of centralized python scripts within BPI projects. These can be referenced by expressions and extend the functions of an expression.

Forms

The form editor has been revised. With this release we introduce the new group control. This allows not only visual grouping of form elements but also splitting a column into multiple sub columns.

Repository

  • You can now rearrange objects in the process explorer via drag & drop. This helps very much in the organization of BPI Projects.

  • Existing projects may now be linked to multiple solutions.

Modeling

You can now edit the data flow relationship of the Data Association. Possible options are undirected, unidirectional and bidirectional.

Simulation

  • The new simulation-property "Use Stochastic Duration" on SubProcess-Activities allows to prescind the linked sub-process.

  • The association of products and cost centers to simulation properties is now easer and avoids mistakes. Just choose the items defined in your organization diagram with help of the drop-down-boxes.

  • The fractional number representation has been enhanced in simulation report for a better overview.

  • Some bugs within simulation report were fixed. Thereby performance of report visualization was improved and problems with persisting large reports were solved.

  • When you have errors in your simulation run (e.g. because of inaccurate python scripts), the error log provides the IYOPRO element IDs for a better traceability.

  • The user interface of the stochastic distribution editor has been enhanced. Now you have separated input boxes for days, hours, minutes and seconds.

  • Long running simulations may now be aborted by a button. The experiment report will be provided for the time span between simulation start and abortion.

  • You can now use use the data type "Dictionary" within in your python scripts.

  • BPMN shapes (e.g. IT-Systems), which have no simulation impact will be ignored. You do not need to remove them before simulation anymore.

v1.13.3.5

Forms

  • The forms now support a QR-Code Control. QR-Codes will be printed on on paper driven forms. The user may then fill out the form with a digital pen.
    With a special app on a mobile device the user may then scan the QR-code and attach photos to the instance.

  • The DataGrid object has been enhanced to support different column types.

Workflow

  • The advanced properties editor now supports the insertion of attribute bindings to messages and scripts via mouse click.

  • IYOPRO now supports customer developed interfaces (i.e. .net library) for access in script-tasks (on Premise only)
    Several adapters have already been developed and will become available for our customers (i.e. an RFC-SAP Adapter)

Repository

  • The repository now has back and forward buttons for navigation

  • The file search has been enhanced. You may now search for terms at elements i.e. the name or description of controls.

  • Users of the basic edition will be allowed to fully participate in teams for a trial period of 30 days. After that team-folders will be read only for basic users.

Modelling

Several people asked for a setting to control the pop up behavior of the modeling toolbar. In the user settings you may now choose between Touch (the "old" behavior), Select or None.

Simulation

  • you may now define shift plans for every worker in your organization diagram, to restrict the availability of your resources. Several standard shift plans are provided and can be modified to your demands.

  • It’s now possible to restrict the time slots, when stochastic start events may start, e.g. in order to model opening hours when customers may arrive.

  • Activity-based costing has been improved. Use more possibilities for allocating neutral costs. Measure when neutral cost centers are utilized, for allocating them to products or processes.

  • You can now define your cost centers and products within your organization diagrams. This avoids typing errors and eases modeling.

  • The basic load describes working time of your resource, which is not modeled within your processes, but prevents usage of the resource in your processes. The setup time is the time a resource needs to prepare working in an activity, the post-processing time is a the time a resource needs after working in an activity before it changes its state back to idle.

  • Performance improvements. Simulation runs faster and needs less memory space.

  • With this release we introduce the new Asymmetric Normal Distribution. This new stochastic distribution is similar to the normal distribution, but its standard deviation to left may be different to the standard deviation to the right.

  • Instead of conditions, you can now also enter probabilities at the outgoing sequence flows of exclusive and inclusive Gateways.

  • You can now change the corresponding product within your processes with help of python scripts.
    SimulationContext.Product="Produkt1";

Documentation

The HTML-Export of Collaboration Diagrams now includes important simulation properties, like duration or inter arrival times, which eases the validation of your simulation models!

v1.11.8.0

Modelling

  • To visualize the relationship between activities and IT-Systems we created the new IT-System artifact. BPMN 2.0 lacks this shape but explicitly allows custom shapes.

  • IYOPRO now supports multi language diagrams. Many languages have been predefined. However, if you miss one please let us know.

  • With this release we introduce stakeholder related views of process diagrams. This provides an easy way to publish tailored diagrams to any type of consumer within an integrated data model.

Documentation

  • Based on the new IT-System shape IYOPRO now provides a new IT-System Diagram report. This report shows which diagram / activity / role utilizes which IT-System.

  • The Word Export now reports assigned user defined attributes

Forms

The forms now support a Hyperlink Control.It’s possible to link to static url’s as well as dynamic url’s which are defined in process instance attributes.

Workflow

The process instance log data and process instance attributes may be easily downloaded for running and finished process instances in Excel format. This allows KPI analysis with third party systems

Simulation

  • The simulation has been enhanced to support activity based costing. This feature is very powerful. We’re working on a training to familiarize you with the required steps.

  • The simulation now supports the event based gateway

  • If there are multiple activities executing in parallel which require the same resources you may now specify the priority at each activity to execute first.

  • Beside stochastic distributions process instances may now start based on calendars.

v1.10.7.4

Userinterface

IYOPRO now supports Russian and Brazilian Portuguese language beside the already existing English, German, Dutch and French languages.

Modelling

  • The content of the shape toolboxes may now be controlled by customer settings. Due to different customer settings it’s possible to provide different toolboxes to different modeler roles (i.e. beginner / advanced or designer / workflow architect)

  • The description template of all documents and shapes may now be controlled by customer settings.

  • The direction of process map arrows may now be changed.

Documentation

  • The Word export may now list activities, events, documents and gateways.

  • The Word export will now incorporate a custom logo and a custom title from the customer settings.

  • The HTML export may now list activities, events, documents and gateways.

  • The HTML export will now incorporate a custom logo, a custom headline and a custom background color from the customer settings.

Workflow

  • Messages can now be triggered from email backlings to message flows and receiving message events

  • The datastore has been extended to support a repository directory to store process instance documents.

Repository

The way to add users to teams has been revised. With this release we introduce the Team Access Code (TAC). With this temporary code multiple users may join the team without further permissions. This is perfect for education where students need to join an instructors team.

v1.9.8.1

Userinterface

IYOPRO now supports Dutch and French language beside the already existing English and German languages.

Documentation

  • The word export now supports hyperlinks as expected.

  • You can now configure, which activities in which order are shown in the word export.

Modelling

The BPMN export and import has been validated against several systems.

Simulation - Animation

When reaching a Timer Intermediate Event the flow will pause until the control is selected. This allows to wait controlled.

Workflow

The verification, deployment and printout of digital pen enterprise-forms is now integrated into the IYOPRO SaaS Version. These forms may be created with IYOPRO’s form editor or imported from any third party app which is able to save AcroForm PDF’s. This simplifies the usage of digital pens significant.

v1.9.4.1

Workflow

  • The execution performance of python scripts while processing workflow’s has been significantly improved.

  • The repository now allows to explicitly delete process instances

  • The users web form now contains a ribbon interface. The participant which will perform a task must now accept the task which is then no longer assigned to the complete group / role.

Modeling + Workflow

You may now define the web service definition of a service task within the "Service Definition Property Dialog". This dialog makes it easy to attach and test most web services. In the background the dialog creates a python script which will be executed then. Experienced users may modify this code to perform more complex operations.

Simulation

  • You may now save simulation reports and reopen them later.

  • You may now specify complex repetition timestamps within our new recurrent date editor.

Modeling

  • IYOPRO now supports user defined Attributes (UDA). UDAs let you define attributes for every type of shape in IYOPRO. You may then apply one or even more UDA-definitions, which will be merged together in the UDA-Dialog.

  • IYOPRO now supports user shape templates. Shape templates let you define default settings of shapes. Currently supported is the control of the default color and the default description.

  • As with the process map shapes it is now possible to change the shape color of all shape types individually over all diagrams. The new "Transfer" command gives the user an simple and effective way to populate font- and color settings to multiple other elements.

Workflow Scripts

IYOPRO now supports the document type "Script". This will allow the integration of program code into Workflow-projects in a more powerful way as before.

Documentation

The documentation has been extended. Especially the Simulation module has been described in detail including report examples.

v1.8.9.0

BPS Simulation

Our Simulation module received significant enhancements. The distribution dialog now provides a preview of the selected mathematical distribution including the distributed values based on the given parameters. In addition the report provides not only the mathematical distribution but for comparison the selected values of the simulation pass. This provides clearness if the selected simulation values are representative or not.

While calculating the simulation pass a progress bar is shown as well as a calendar which shows the current simulated date.

The Report has been divided into sections which may be expanded or collapsed. Each section contains a short help which explains the content of the section.

Modelling

It is now possible to create RACI, RASCI, RACI-VS or VARISC as well as CAIRO or RACIO Diagrams. Because the diagrams only differ by the used responsibilities we simply use the term RACI. To use it add your responsibilities to participants in the participant dialog of your user tasks. Then use
File  Export  RACI Diagram
Verify the appearing preview.You may then export the diagram to Excel format.

Workflow

The SaaS back end workflow engine sandbox is now allowed to execute web services. That offers very new possibilities for workflow integration which was until now excepted to On Premise installations.

Word Export

To reduce the amount of generated pages the Word export received a new setting where you may control the insertion of page breaks.

Basic Edition Ads

ONLY the free IYOPRO Basic Edition will now show business advertisings of partners and customers on the right side. If you’re interested to see your ad here please contact us. If you wish to have an Ad free IYOPRO update at least to the Professional Edition.

v1.8.5.2

Versioning

IYOPRO diagrams may now be versioned. To use this click on "Save new version" in the "Save As" menu. To load an old version click on the arrow of the splitted OK-Button in the file selection dialog. You may then choose from a list of available file versions of the selected object. In addition you’ll find a Properties entry in the file menu. The properties dialog contains a Version tab which provides the required information.

Office 2010 themes

IYOPRO now provides not only the Office 2007 themes but also the Office 2010 themes.

Watermark for basic Users

IYOPRO Basic users will find a "Powered by IYOPRO Basic Edition" watermark on all image exports. That was a requirement of our sales partners.

IYOPRO Api

With this release we provide our first version of the IYOPRO Api. With this development library it’s easy to integrate desktop applications into IYOPRO cloud workflows.

v1.7.4.9

Forms

HTML-Forms where extended by authentication and Ajax support. Our job is not yet complete. With the provided web services you may now embed forms into every web portal and start a workflow instance in IYOPRO when the user submits the form.

Workflow Portal

You’ll find the portal functionality within the repository now.

There is a new option "Workflow Message" which allows to trigger a BPMN 2.0 message event if the user clicks on the hyperlink i.e. from within an email.

Validation

Some rules regarding the BPMN 2.0 validation have been corrected to confirm the specification on some special cases of events and activities.

BPI Projects

If a project contains multiple modified files and one of these files will be saved a save management dialog will appear that allows to save all or a selection of the files.

OpenXML Export

The Preview now contains the table of contents.

HTML Project Export

The configuration dialog now contains an Advanced tab. Here you can adjust the order of the tree elements. You may also specify a home page which will initially will be displayed. The Shortcut feature allows you to create a hyperlink pane from which the user may access specific documents very quickly. The search feature has been moved to the navigation pane. You may save the advanced settings if you save the project.

Schema Diagram

With this version we introduce the schema relation object. It’ll be used to link table columns together.

v1.6.4.9

They now allow references not only to web pages but also to local files and repository files.

HTMP Project export

This export type is introduced with this release. It allows you to export your process documentation as web pages which can be accessed from your intranet.

v1.5.6.7

Organisation Diagram

You may define your organisation for documentation purposes and enhance it with roles for the workflow execution. Users and groups may be imported from the IYOPRO Repository or even simpler from your LDAP Directory which requires IYOPRO to run Out of Browser.

Schema Diagram

Define your database schema which will be linked to BPMN Datastores to load and save your process data while executing workflows. You may export and import schema content to give you most flexibility to manage your data.

Form Editor

The form editor now allows multicolumn forms. There is also a new data grid control. Several controls have been enhanced to let you create more professional forms.

BPI Projects

The functionality has been enhanced significantly. The project tree currently is the only object, which got a context menu. Diagrams and forms within the project tree may be dragged onto other diagrams to create subprocesses, datastores, usertasks or link them to existing elements. We will provide an example video soon, which will explain the power of the IYOPRO Project Management.

Documentation export

IYOPRO now generates a detailed Process documentation with a sophisticated layout. There will be more with our next releases.

Bitmap Export

The quality of the Bitmap export for large diagrams has been enhanced dramatically. But - export may take a while

License management - you may now flexible assign and deassign single licenses from your license package to your users. We will provide a video to explain the license management.

You may insert hyperlinks in your texts. BPMN Element Styling - with this release we start to deliver different styles for the BPMN stencils. For now we provide a sketch style which gives your diagrams the effect of a hand drawn concept paper.

Validation

With this release we changed the way of diagram validation. You now have a better control of what will be marked. Also there is a new Simulation validation which will indicate missing must have parameters for a successful anaysis step.

Workflow Portal

For professional users we provide a new workflow portal. The portal will present tasks, monitored processes and runnable workflows in a clearly arranged way.