BPM Environments or Tenants

An Environment is a collection of Applications and Users. An Application has a collection of Bpm Processes Definitions, Roles and Forms. And a User has a collection of Roles.

BpmFlow can work in two different modes with Environments: 1- Users Multi Environment Users are enabled to be part of more than one environment and at login time the user has to select the environment to work with. This mode is used in Governments when each environment represent a Ministry and a user can work on more than one Ministry. It is also used when the same people run two different companies and each environment is a company. A user has to have access to all companies. The user must select an Environment at login time. Once the user is logged the Environment is stored in the user web session. In order to work with other Environment the user has to logout and login in a different Environment. As it is shown in the below figure a user can have access to more than one Environment. 2- Users Single Environment Users are only enabled to be a part of only one environment and at login time there is no need to select the environment. This mode is used in SaaS (software as a service) installations where each environment is a different company and companies do not have relations with each other (users only access to one company). In this case an administrator set the environment for each user and at login time is not necessary to select the environment. In this mode there is an exception where admin users can be part of more than one environment. These admin users do the configuration of the SasS installation. Once the user is logged the system detect its Environment and store it in the user web session.

This configuration has to be set immediately after the installation by a system administrator: BpmEnvironment areUsersMultiEnvironment: true. "for option one" BpmEnvironment areUsersMultiEnvironment: false. "for option two"

User multi environment diagram

Application names are global to the whole System (including Environments). Two Applications even in different Environments can not have the same name.

To checkout all objects affected by Environments search implementors and senders of bpmEnvironment method.