In addition to new features, Flows for APEX version 24.1 introduces the Flows for APEX Enterprise Edition - with powerful new enterprise features and technical support available on an annual subscription basis. The Flows for APEX Community Edition remains as a free-of-charge, community supported product - also with new features.
Developer-free Simple Form Task
Allow business users to create simple business processes without APEX development or database skills
- create simple process data input forms without APEX knowledge
- store process data in JSON column
- also introduces a JSON-typed process variable
Introducing the Flows for APEX Enterprise Edition
To support customers now running Flows for APEX in their mission-critical applications, we are introducing the Flows for APEX Enterprise Edition in 24.1.
- Flows for APEX Enterprise Edition includes additional advanced functionality, starting with 24.1 features process collaboration, iterations and loops, and GenAI modeling support.
- Enterprise customers have access to product support to keep their business processes running.
- All Enterprise Edition licencees also have access to an annual advice session with the product developers.
- Supporting the Enterprise Edition enables dedicated resources to continue the development, testing, and support of both the Enterprise and Community Editions of Flows for APEX.
The Flows for APEX Enterprise Edition is available on an annual subscription basis from Flowquest Limited. * New features available in the Enterprise Edition.
Full Process Collaboration with BPMN Message Flow*
Building on 23.1, BPMN Message Flow now supports a full range BPMN events for inter process communication:
- start a new process from incoming message with BPMN Message Start
- subscribe and wait for, or send a message to another process
- interrupt or change process flow based on a received message
- emit messages from a process or sub-process end event
Iterating and Looping Process Steps*
Repeat a step for each item in a list or query, sequentially or in parallel
- works on tasks and sub-processes
- execute sequentally or in parallel
- driven by a list, array, or SQL query
- also supports BPMN loops
- completion conditions on loops and iterations
- process viewer allows drilldown into nested iterations
askFlo - GenAI Support for Process Modeler*
Use GenAI to assist process modelling
- explain BPMN process models in business English
- suggest modeling, technical, or business process improvements
- assist in model error detection and explanation
- provide text summaries of process models in other languages
- support for GPT-4o and other LLMs
Process Viewer Enhancements
The BPMN Process Viewer, which can be added into your workflow application to show users the current ststus of all the steps in their business process, now is enhanced:
- open user task steps by clicking on the process viewer
- highlight model steps with BPMN Color
- drill into iterating or looping steps*
The Flows for APEX Community Edition remains 100% Open Source
The core of Flows for APEX, now called the Flows for APEX Community Edition, remains as an open source project. You can continue to share and/or modify it, always under the adherence of the MIT-license. Support for Community Edition is provided by the Flows for APEX community, via the github issues and discussions pages.