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  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on May 17, 2023

Include Gantt Chart and Diagram feature in BAW or a similar view for workflows

There is a limitation of using federated Process Portal with BAW product, the Gantt Chart feature is not available in the container version.

Although in several cases, a complete diagram workflow shows the user more information or details of the workflow that may confuse them, is still very useful to have a view for users to get a clear understanding on which step or stage their instance is.

Our current implementation of BAW on CP4BA faces this missing functionality for our users who were used to view this diagram feature.

I think if more useful functionalities "out of the box" stay in your products (BAW for example), then more easier will be for companies to make their next step on implementing other products to keep going on their digital transformation path.


Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Aug 7, 2024

    Our business need this feature to get an overview of process instance details and understand the completed and pending tasks in the process.

  • Guest
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    Aug 7, 2024

    Our business was excited on the feature but we found out it cant be used on CP4BA . Inclusion of the feature will help our business .usage

  • Guest
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    Aug 6, 2024

    Inclusion of this feature would significantly improve our ability to promote the usage of CP4BA internally with our organization. Management was particularly interested in the Gantt and Diagram views of the Process Performance portal.