Overview The Brazos Portal utilizes Log4j as its logging framework. As of v1.12.0 Brazos Portal log levels can be dynamically adjusted using the Brazos Portal Admin screen. This article explains how to adjust the log levels dynamically and how to change the default logging. Adjust Logging via Adm...
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The Brazos Portal was designed to provide an efficient way to keep users up to date in regards to the tasks they have and a fast way for them to act on those tasks. There are two main parts to the Brazos Portal, a J2EE Application and an AngularJS Client. The J2EE Application monitors IBM BPM, A...
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Introduction This article provides instructions on the data that BP3 Labs support team may ask you to gather for the issues related to Brazos Portal. Examples of such issues would be: Users are not seeing tasks to refresh automatically in Brazos Portal Specific user(s) are not getting their task...
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Introduction In order for Brazos Portal to keep browser clients in sync it maintains an EVENT_LOG table. This table allows us to only send deltas when user reconnects, for instance at login or from loss of network connectivity. Brazos Portal takes care of the maintenance of this table, with one ...
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Brazos Portal's Task Synchronizer uses IBM BPM's Dynamic Event Framework to notify the Brazos Portal Server of task changes. Brazos Portal can be scaled independently from BPM hardware Brazos Portal supports both on Premise and on Cloud BPM instances simultaneously       Differences from Brazo...
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If you are facing issues with Brazos Portal (either with installation or at runtime), please open a ticket with us and provide the following:  Liberty logs: <LIBERTY_INSTALL_HOME>\wlp\usr\servers\YOUR_SERVER_NAME\logs Liberty Server configuration: <LIBERTY_INSTALL_HOME>\wlp\usr\servers\YOUR_SER...
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Introduction The Brazos Portal is a new approach to BPM end user task management. It includes several differentiating features: Users can organize their work the way they want in Brazos Portal. This makes it easier to find the work you care about first, and to re-arrange work when it isn't pres...
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Overview After applying the IBM BPM v.8.5.7 Cumulative Fix CF201703 Brazos Portal stops working with certificate errors. Background iFix JR57300, included with IBM BPM 857 CF201703, "...[e]nforces the use of secure HTTPS for browser targeting web applications." This change is automatically applie...
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Overview One of the customizations available in Brazos Portal is the ability to create and share multiple views of your tasks. Views Admins have the ability to create multiple sets of task groups, called views, that can be shared with users allowing them to organize their tasks in multiple ways,...
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Overview Beginning with the v1.12.0 release of Brazos Portal, Filters can be defined that will be logically ORed in addition to the existing filters that are ANDed. This feature greatly increases the flexibility for how you can filter tasks in your Task Groups and Views.  There are now two sect...
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Performance concerns are often a topic we discuss with BP3 customers and we use the term “layers of an onion” to describe the process. Just when you peel back one layer, there's another one just below (also about to make you cry). Recently, I started to peel back another layer of the performance ...
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Overview There are a couple of items that you need to be aware of if you plan on using Brazos Portal with DB2 9.5. DB2 9.5 End of Support (base) was on April 30, 2015 See IBM's DB2 support page for more details Given this, BP3 recommends that you use DB2 9.7 or later with your Brazos Port...
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Problem Statement After initially deploying a new Business Process with new business variables exposed as "available in search", those business variables don't show up in Brazos Portal. This is a problem because without the new variables new Task Groups and/or Views can't filter or display the ...
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Introduction Business data variables in IBM BPM are exposed during design time by marking corresponding variables as - "Visible in Process Portal" in latest version of IBM BPM (85x) and/or "Available in Search" in earlier versions of IBM BPM when developing process applications in Process Design...
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Overview Brazos Portal with the Database Trigger backend process all task changes from the IBM BPM system, even System tasks that are marked to "Delete task on completion". For processes with high volumes of System Tasks being generated this can cause unnecessary load on Brazos Portal. Under extr...
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Overview Beginning in Brazos Portal v1.13 a customization option was added to Brazos Portal that disables the creation of personal views, or "My View", for all portal users. In builds where this option is enabled, users will only have access to views that are shared with them directly or via a gr...
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Overview Beginning in Brazos Portal v1.14, Brazos Portal Admins can export and import Views and Templates between different environments. This allows you to automate the process of promoting changes to views between different BPM environments. If you are new to Shared Views and Templates see the...
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Table of Contents Overview Brazos Portal database tuning Custom database indexes Databases General Considerations Brazos Portal Polling (REST API version) Environment Cleanup/Maintenance BPM database cleanup Brazos Portal database cleanup Overview Even though Brazos Portal d...
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Overview Beginning in Brazos Portal v1.12.0 you can use certain variables as placeholders for filter values in Brazos Portal Views and Task Groups so that you can include dynamic data in your filters such as today's date and the currently logged in user id. Available Variable Substitution Place...
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