Dear Studio free users,

The feature in Studio free that allowed users to download documentation for their business processes in the form of a PDF file will be removed in the coming weeks. You can download it for your processes while it's still available.

We understand that this feature was useful in creating and sharing documentation for your business processes. However, after careful consideration, we have decided to remove this feature due to technical reasons.

Please note that this will not change your existing business processes or other data in Studio free. Everything else will still be working within Studio free as usual.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and we appreciate your understanding. We are committed to continuously improving and updating Creatio products to provide you with the best possible experience.

Thank you for your continued use of Studio free.

Here’s an overview of the new features and changes, in Studio Creatio, free edition released in August 2020.

Registration and profile

Added an ability to specify the user role when sending collaboration invitations. You can change the roles of users who have accepted their invitations on the organization setup page. If an organization has a single user with the “Administrator” role, another administrator must be appointed first before switching the original administrator user to a different role. 

Importing business processes from Studio Creatio, free edition to Studio Creatio, enterprise edition and other Creatio products

You can import business process diagrams designed in Studio Creatio, free edition as executable processes in other Creatio products. To do so, export the business process to a *.bpmn file first, and then import the file into the needed Creatio product. You can import a *.bpmn file to Creatio by clicking [Actions] -> [Import from *.bpmn] in the Process Designer or drag&drop the file to the Process Designer window. *.bpmn files generated in third-party BPMN 2.0 process editors can be imported as well. See “Import/Export” article in the Studio Creatio, free edition documentation, and “Importing *.BPMN files” article in the Creatio business process setup guide.

Processes imported from Studio Creatio, free edition retain links to their original diagrams. You can also specify the link manually in the process settings area.

Process Designer

We have improved the navigation UX for large process diagrams by adding a dedicated navigation panel. The tools on the panel include diagram mini-map, as well as a range of zoom controls.

Improved the drawing of flows on the process diagram. Dragging the end of flow will cause the flow to re-draw for optimal pathing to the specified endpoint. 

Flow captions now stay near the corresponding flow when its pathing or position changes.

Deleting an element with inbound and outbound flows will result in re-drawing the flows to compensate. 

“Exclusive OR” and “Inclusive OR” gateways can have only conditional or default outbound flows. Likewise, “Event-based gateway” and “Parallel gateway” can be used with regular sequence flows only. 

Performance

Increased the loading speed of diagrams with a large number of elements.

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Here are the new features included in bpm’online studio free:

PROCESS DESIGNER

• We have implemented the BPMN 2.0 rule that disables adding incoming flows to start events. When an event type changes to a “start” event, all the incoming flows are deleted automatically.

• The BPMN 2.0 rule that enables using only the default flows with start and intermediate events has also been added.

• We have implemented automatic breaking of a flow when you paste a new element on it. To paste a new element, just place it somewhere on the flow arrow.

• We have added a new element — an expanded event sub-process. The application supports the primary rules of the BPMN 2.0 notation, for example:
  • the start event of such a sub-process cannot be blank;
  • you cannot set up another event sub-process inside of an event sub-process;
  • if you place a non-interrupting start event outside the event sub-process area, such start event will interrupt the process.

• When you need to paste a set of copied elements or groups of elements, you can now preview how they will look in a diagram.

• We have improved the connection of elements with sequence flows in cases when you, e.g., change the pool dimensions or use the Ctrl+Z key combination. 

PERFORMANCE

• The processes created in other applications and imported into Creatio free from the *.bpmn files now open faster.
• The process diagrams with many elements can also open faster.

Here are the new features included in bpm’online studio free:

REGISTRATION AND PROFILE

• The “Manage Account” button has migrated to a separate menu in the upper right-hand corner.
• Now, you can invite existing users to your account.
• If you are a member of two or more accounts, you can switch between them using the menu in the upper right-hand corner. The list of available processes changes depending on the selected account.
• You can now re-send a registration or a password recovery email.

Re-sending a registration email in studio free

PROCESS DESIGNER

• The process / element setup area will remain open while working with a process diagram. The area displays the properties of the currently selected element.
• You will receive a notification if your Internet connection is interrupted or if there is an error while saving the process.
• Fixed an issue when the process / element description did not save properly.
• Fixed an issue that occurred while copying pools or lanes to other processes. Previously, their header did not paste properly.

IMPORT AND EXPORT

• Fixed an issue that occurred while importing or exporting processes in the *.bpmn format.

PERFORMANCE

• Faster login and improved “app.bpmonline.com” website stability.