Release 23.1

[commi235]

Changes in this Release

• Adds Due Dates and Priorities to bpmn:processes and to bpmn:userTasks, allowing declarative tracking of scheduling, priority and due dates.
• Adds Task Assignment to bpmn:userTasks, allowing easier declarative assignment of tasks to potential users and groups.
• Adds REST-enabling of the Flows for APEX API
• Major upgrade to the BPMN Modeler, with new, modern-looking properties panel.
• Enhanced support for modeling and viewing of collapsed subProcesses that can be easily expanded / collapsed.
• Adds support for BPMN Child Lane sets, allowing nesting of lane sets inside parent lanes.
• Adds explicit definition of relationship (or not) between Lanes and APEX roles/groups.
• Adds Timestamp with Time Zone datatype option for Process Variables.
• Adds binding of Process Variables into PL/SQL scripts, variable expressions, and element settings.
• Adds support for binding non-varchar2 typed (i.e., number, date, timestamp with time zone) process variables.
• Allows process variable substitutions to be used in all of the parameters of an APEX Page task.
• Adds 'is Startable' information to Processes, along with users and groups that can start a process.
• Allows BPMN diagrams to contain Groups and attached Annotations.
• Adds Automation to create daily, month-to-date, monthly, and quarterly statistics on process and step performance.
• Enhances Flows for APEX Application dashboard to display process and step performance, errors, and waiting time statistics.
• Adds auditing / logging of changes made to process diagrams, to complete the existing logging capabilities
• Adds the ability to create a summary document, as a JSON document, describing all actions taken to run a process instance.
• Adds an Automation creating archive summaries for all recently completed process instances into an archive table or OCI Object Storage.
• Adds an automation for automated purging of old logging data and statistics summaries.
• Allows an administrator to easily change the timer polling frequency, or temporarily enable / disable timers on non-production systems.
• Experimental Feature - Adds MessageFlow between sendTasks, receiveTasks, Intermediate Message Catch and Throw events. Phase 1 of more...
• Adds support for additional languages Italian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean.
• Required APEX version increased to APEX v20.2

Installation Instructions

1. Fresh Install

See installation instructions

2. Upgrade from Flows for APEX v22.1

See Migration Instructions

3. Plugin for APEX Approval Tasks Integration (APEX 22.1+)

1. Download the file f4a_approval_return_result_plugin.sql.
2. Import the plugin into your application.
3. More information can be found in our documentation.

4. Enabling the REST API

Use the steps as documented in the installation instructions.
We also include a Postman Collection and the OpenAPI specification in the release assets.

• FlowsForAPEX_v23.1_Postman_Collection.zip
• FlowsForAPEX_v23.1_openapi_3_0_0.yml

5. Combined Task List for APEX Approval Tasks and Flows User Tasks

If you are running on an APEX release which support Approval Tasks you might want to run FlowsForAPEX_v23.1_Combined_Task_List.sql as the Flows schema from the assets below.
This view allows you to have a combined view of Flows & APEX Tasks.
You can find more information in our documentation.

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This discussion was created from the release Release 23.1.

[lipe-8haus]

Where can I find the file "no_sqlnet_migration.zip" for this release?
Thanks!

[commi235]

We are currently producing this file.
Should be available until end of this week.

[commi235]

File has been uploaded to the release