There used to be a way to execute a process when a user logs in, does this facil

RE: There used to be a way to execute a process when a user logs in, does this facil

Mark — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:37:20 GMT

Great discussion folks, thank you all for your input. We have gotten the Tempo task to start on user login as @sidhantb suggested. I know the next part is a common issue, but is there a way to send a user to a particular page post execution?

We are running this for user data updates...we have SAML SSO enabled with creation of users on initial login, and we're finding that the 3 fields it creates the accounts for aren't enough (we really need Supervisor populated).

RE: There used to be a way to execute a process when a user logs in, does this facil

prakharg — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 10:54:29 GMT

@sidhantb - Thanks...

RE: There used to be a way to execute a process when a user logs in, does this facil

Sidhant Behura — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:46:21 GMT

@richard.nolan - That's a nice point actually. It is not constant across all the platforms, i.e. the server URL or domain name varies.
Suppose take below URL for example.
http://10.0.0.1:8080/suite/tempo/actions/item/xyzActionURL

We have to keep the http://10.0.0.1:8080/suite/tempo part of the URL as a constant.
Then we have split the process model URL with the suite tempo URL and concatenate with 2nd part of the splitted URL.

load(
local!splittedURL:split("http://10.0.0.1:8080/suite/tempo/actions/item/xyzActionURL","http://10.0.0.1:8080/suite/tempo"),
"http://10.0.0.1:8080/suite/tempo" & local!splittedURL[2]
)

RE: There used to be a way to execute a process when a user logs in, does this facil

Sidhant Behura — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:29:35 GMT

@prakharg - As per my knowledge, yes it is required to configure the process model as an Action otherwise you wont get a Tempo URL.
Please do share if you have any other way to achieve it.

RE: There used to be a way to execute a process when a user logs in, does this facil

Richard — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 00:23:32 GMT

@sidhantb - Does the process model URL collected via Chrome stay consistent across platforms if we export the model as part of an application - or is it necessary to configure it in each location?

RE: There used to be a way to execute a process when a user logs in, does this facil

sagarl511 — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:29:13 GMT

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RE: There used to be a way to execute a process when a user logs in, does this facil

prakharg — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:26:39 GMT

@sidhantb, Is configuring Process Model as an Action is mandatory to get the URL?

RE: There used to be a way to execute a process when a user logs in, does this facil

Sidhant Behura — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:28:28 GMT

@mohammedz - The feature you are suggesting is "Sites" and the explanation you have given is correct.
Sites are a very good option if you want to focus on a limited set of activities.

But here there the requirement from @markshaw is he want to start a just process and which may or may not contain a user input task.
Here his requirement might be to run a batch process of some kind whenever a user logs in.
So for this scenario, the above mentioned solution might suffice.
And we need an action for sure otherwise we cannot trigger the process model.

But if you configure a Site then no process model is invoked unless you click on some submit button or submit link.

RE: There used to be a way to execute a process when a user logs in, does this facil

Sidhant Behura — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 13:57:31 GMT

@prakharg - If you have opened Tempo in Google Chrome then right click on the process model and Click "Copy link address" or else another way is click on the action and copy the URL from the address bar.

RE: There used to be a way to execute a process when a user logs in, does this facil

mohammedz — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:45:46 GMT

@sidhantb

To do so in User Start page, the particular process model user wants to trigger should have a process start form and there should be action as well only then we can configure a "tempo url" or "sites url" to particular user or group to show the form directly to the loggedinuser

After the configuration once the user hits /siute corresponding form will get opened but as per I have seen there will not be any instance created. Process instance will be invoked only after submitting or cancelling the process start from, Till then we cannot see process model invoked

Correct me if i am wrong....!!

RE: There used to be a way to execute a process when a user logs in, does this facil

prakharg — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:06:54 GMT

@sidhantb, How we can get the Process Model URL?

RE: There used to be a way to execute a process when a user logs in, does this facil

Sidhant Behura — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 10:14:02 GMT

Yes @markshaw, this is absolutely possible.
You can achieve this feature using the "User Start Pages" in the admin console.
Create a group and then add yourself into that group and configure the process model URL in the start page URL column.
Next time when you login into the server you will find your process model invoked and started.

And this feature exists in previous versions also.
Let know if this information was helpful.

RE: There used to be a way to execute a process when a user logs in, does this facil

mohammedz — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 08:23:02 GMT

@mark
Would you be able to make us clear what actually is the requirement ....?
Is it when user logs in where ?
if so u want to trigger a process model ?