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Bizweaver Application Overview

Icon Bar

The Icon Bar provides access to various Bizweaver options and tools used to manage the application.

“Currently active” in the following discussions means that a workflow has been selected and is displayed in the design area.

Icon Bar

Create new workflow: This clears the workflow design area to begin a new workflow.

  • Any changes that have not been saved in the workflow currently displayed in the design area will be lost.

Search: Allows you to search workflows by ID number or text string.

  • Select the “Search by text” checkbox to search by text string.
  • Select a row from the list of items displayed and click [Open] to open the workflow for editing.

Save: Saves the currently active workflow.

Enhanced information regarding the save (and duplicate) process is provided beginning in Bizweaver version 2.4.

Duplicate: This will duplicate the currently active workflow.

  • Use this option to create a copy of an existing workflow. The new workflow can be saved in the current folder, or in a different folder. In either case, it will be saved with the same name as the original, but with a different workflow ID.

Delete: This will delete the currently active workflow.

  • A deleted workflow cannot be recovered.

Explorer View: This will enable the Explorer view of Bizweaver. This is the default view when Bizweaver is opened.

Design View: This will enable the Design view of Bizweaver. This view displays only the workflow tools and the design area.

Task List View: This will enable the Task List view of Bizweaver. This view displays only the groups and lists of tasks.

You can switch views at any time.

Register Assembly: Used only when specific tools need updating.

  • Some workflow tools are independent of the core Bizweaver application, including custom tools. Standard tools are registered automatically during installation/upgrade. The Register Assembly function is used only when a specific tool needs to be updated. This function should only be used as directed by Third Wave support personnel.

General Settings: This is the general configuration for Bizweaver.

  • Additional information is found here.

Global Connections Configuration: This is used to define connections to database engines (SQL Server & HANA), email services, REST web services, and SAP Business One integration tools (DI Server, DI API).

  • Additional information is found here.

Restart SAP Business One DI Server service: This is only used when Bizweaver is being used with SAP Business One.

  • Start Bizweaver using the right-click > Run as administrator option to ensure the process has adequate operating system permissions.

Export / Import: This is used to export and import Bizweaver workflows.

  • Additional information for these processes is found here.

Test Run (Debug) Tool: Executes the currently active workflow in test/debug mode.

  • Additional information is found here.

View Job Log: This allows you to view the job log for the currently selected workflow.

  • The job log displays only log activity for workflows executed using the “Run Now” option or on a schedule.

Explorer Area

The “Explorer Area” provides the ability to create/store workflows in folders. These groupings are for organizational convenience only and have no effect on the use of the application. In the standard Explorer area view there are two “panes”; the Folders pane (on the left) and the Workflow pane (on the right). The Workflow pane presents the contents of the folder selected in the Folder pane To add a new folder:

  • Select (highlight) the desired parent folder.
  • Press the [Insert] key or right-click the parent folder and select Insert to add a child folder (one level below the selected parent) OR click “New Root” to create a new parent folder.
  • Enter the name of the new folder

To delete a folder:

  • Move (or remove) any workflows that are in the target folder.
    • A folder cannot be removed if it holds any workflows.
  • Select (highlight) the desired folder.
  • Press the [Delete] key or right-click the parent folder and select Delete.
  • The folder is deleted.

Workflow List Pane

The Workflow List pane displays a list of workflows in the folder selected in the Folders pane.

  • Workflow Enabled/Disabled Icon
    • This icon is found just to the left of the workflow name. It indicates whether the workflow is enabled or not.
    • A green icon indicates that the workflow is enabled.
    • No icon indicates that the workflow is disabled.
    • Click in the icon area to enable or disable a specific workflow.
    • Your license indicates the number of workflows that can be active. The counter is found in the lower right corner of the Bizweaver screen.
  • Workflow Name
  • Workflow ID
    • This is an internal ID number that is used when initiating a workflow through the Bizweaver web service.
  • Notes
  • Enabled
    • Provides the same information as shown with the Workflow Enabled/Disabled Icon (item 1 above)
  • Schedule
    • Name of the schedule associated with this workflow.
    • See Workflow Schedules for more information.
  • Next Schedule
    • Date & time this workflow is next scheduled to execute.
  • Last Execution
    • Date & time this workflow was executed using a schedule.
    • Does not reflect date & time the workflow was executed manually.
  • Created Date
    • Date & time the workflow was created.
  • Last Updated Date
    • Date & time the workflow was last updated (modified).

Bizweaver Tools Pane

The tools used to construct Bizweaver workflows are found in this area. They are added to a workflow by dragging them from the Tools area into the Design area. See the Workflow Tools page for descriptions of the tools. Details on each of the tools are found in other Bizweaver documents.

Workflow Design Pane

This area is the “design area” where a workflow is constructed. See the following sections of this document form more information.

Task Counter

As noted earlier, your license controls the number of active (enabled) tasks you may have. The right-hand number indicates the number of licensed workflows. The left-hand number indicates the number of workflows that are currently enabled.

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