What's New In Version 6.0

Version 6.0 (v6.0) of Rethink Workflow has just been released in December 2018 and it is the biggest and most exciting release we have done so far.

v6.0 contains many new features and improvements, including:

1. Build a Form

• The overall form designer has been revamped to be more intuitive, easy to use, yet more powerful. Field properties have been rearranged into tabs including: 
• General: most common field properties
• Sizes: allow to specify the width of the field on different screen-sizes: phone, tablet, desktop, and large desktop. 
• Validation: allow to set specify required and invalid errors, advanced validating function with placeholders supported. 
• Show / Hide: controls field visibility condition with placeholders supported. 
• Permission: allow to set individual field permission per state. 
• More features added for selected fields: 
• Address: 
• Allow detecting user approximate location
• More detail placeholders including streetNumberOne, streetNumberTwo, city, state, postalCode, formatted, latitude, and longitude.
• Checkboxes / Radios:
• Allow specifying the number of options per line
• Use an internal or external data list as the data source for available options
• Comment: the comment field has been deprecated and replaced by Document Commenting feature.
• File Upload:
• Allow limiting the minimum and maximum file size
• Allow limiting the acceptable file types
• More detailed placeholders
• Name:
• Allow showing/hiding and mark as required / optional for first name and last name
• Number:
• Allow specifying number format
• Allow setting the default value
• Sequence ID: this field has been deprecated and replaced by document key. The system automatically generates a document key based on workflow key.
• Table: 
• Allow showing/hiding Header or Footer
• Column cell input supports 10+ different types including dropdown with data list support.
• Allow setting a footer value to be the control value
• Timesheet:
• Support comment for each time-row
• Improved both predefined and per-field placeholders
• Allow changing the workflow setting at any time without the need of unpublishing
• Create a form/process from predefined templates. We will be adding more and more templates for different categories very soon.

2. Design Workflow

• Allow setting action permission while editing a state
• Transition: 
• Better-looking icons with the material icon set
• Allow disabling validation for fields. For example, the comment is required on Decline action but optional on Approve action.
• Quicker adjust permission while editing

3. Set Permission

• The biggest change on this version is Role-based Access Control in which the workflow designer can create roles and assign users to a role. 
• Permissions setting has been improved and simplified

4. Go Live

• Improved reporting: provide a simple-yet-powerful reporting mechanism for running and extracting document values into a tabular format. 
• Company Branding: allow to change the look-and-feel of Rethink Workflow to match with your company brand. 
• Streamlined authentication and creation process: improved the way the system authenticates the end-user so that creating an account and signing in is much easier, especially for public workflow.
• Document Commenting: allows adding comments per field or on the entire document
• Change the sender and reply-to per workflow variant: allow to use a different email address as the sender or reply-to when sending email notifications to the user. 

And more...

• For documents created from a public workflow, the system now saves the document after each change to avoid losing data.
• Support resetting the field values of the document back to what they were when the document first moved to the current state. 
• Assign each document with a unique ID (TSA-0001) using the corresponding workflow key. This feature makes it easier to uniquely mention document instead of using the long id previously. 
• A regular user is able to trash, delete, or restore the document when it is in the initial state. 
• Document printing has been optimized to save paper
• And a ton more minor improvements and bugfixes.

Reporting

Rethink Workflow allows you to create easy-to-use forms to capture quality data from the end-users. The system also enables to create powerful flows to streamline your organization business processes. The last piece of this puzzle is reporting, which is a way for you to view, search, filter, and extract entered values from the system for your own purposes.

There are two types of report: overall report and workflow-specific report.

Overall Report

The overall report allows consolidating entered values in all workflows in one single user interface. There are many ways to get to this report from the overall dashboard: 

1. Click on the application menu, then select Documents

2. Click on the notification icon (the bell icon on the top-right corner) and select ALL DOCUMENTS

3. Under your Inbox widget, select VIEW ALL

4. Under your Recent Documents widget, select VIEW ALL

Here is an overview of how the report interface looks like:

Workflow-specific Report

A workflow-specific report is having exactly the same features as in the overall report above, but for a particular workflow. From the workflow-specific dashboard, you can follow the same method 2, 3, 4 above to get to the report for this workflow.

Using Filters

To add a new filter, click on FILTERS button on the right-hand side. On the popup dialog, search and select the filters you would like to add. The predefined filters are in black color while the filters provided by form fields are in orange color. 

The demonstration below shows how to add, use, and remove a filter.

Using Columns

To add a new column, click on COLUMNS button on the right-hand side. On the popup dialog, search and select the columns you would like to add. Similar to filters, predefined columns are in black and columns provided by form fields are in orange.
The video below demonstrates actions can be performed on columns.

Export data to CSV (Microsoft Excel readable) or JSON format

To export data from a report to CSV or JSON format, select EXPORT button on the right-hand side, and click on the desired format. Note that the data exported only include the columns you selected.

Manage Reports

You can also save the report filters and columns for later retrieval. To save a report, click on SAVE AS button and provide the name and description on the popup dialog and click on SAVE. After that, you can click on the arrow next to the report name to switch between the report.

How to move to trash, restore, or delete a document?

Move a document to trash

• As a user, you can move a document to trash if it is in the initial state (usually called "Draft" unless changed by the administrator)
• As an administrator, you can move a document to trash at any state

To move a document to trash, click on "Trash" menu item on the document view screen: 

A document in Trash does not allow anyone to take any workflow action. Only "Restore" or "Delete" action are available as in the following screenshot: 

Documents in Trash won't show up in your Inbox or Recent Documents widget. To see the trashed documents, you can click on VIEW ALL link below your Inbox or Recent Documents widget.

Trash documents are still counted in Usage Statistics since they are stored in Rethink Workflow.

Restore a document from Trash

• As a user, you can restore your own document in Trash if it is in the initial state (usually called "Draft" unless changed by the administrator)
• As an administrator, you can restore any document in trashed

To restore a document, go to the document view screen and click on "Restore" menu item. 

Permanently delete a document

• As a user, you can delete your own document once it is in Trash.
• As an administrator, you can delete any document once it is in Trash

To permanently delete a document in Trash, on the document view page, click on "Delete" menu item: 

A deleted document won't be counted in your company Usage Statistics.

Usage Statistics

Rethink Workflow offers a quick glance at the usage statistics according to the subscription plan that your organization is in.
To view the usage statistics, as an administrator, click on the "hamburger menu", expand the "Settings" section, and click on "Subscription Plan"

Below the available subscription plans, you should see your organization usage statistics: