Help ELMA BPM Platform

Installation of a Free Component

Attention!

Further information applies only to ELMA 3.7.0 and higher. Component installation is available starting from version 3.7.0

Go to the ELMA Store Catalog (Fig. 1) and click on the desired component (marked as Free).

Fig. 1. ELMA Store. Free component

On the opened page (Fig. 2), click Install to start installing the component. If you want to download the component to a local PC, click Download. A configuration file with .elma extension will be downloaded to your computer. You can then import it into the current configuration of ELMA Designer.

Fig. 2. ELMA Store. Component page with full information

After you click Install, a dialogue box will open. It provides information about requirements for proper installation and operation of the component (Fig. 3).

Fig. 3. ELMA Store. Component installation dialogue box

If the requirements are satisfied, click Continue. The sign in window of ELMA Designer will open (Fig. 4).

Fig. 4. ELMA Designer. Sign in window

You need to select a configuration or create a new one (Fig. 5). After that, enter your login and password and sign in to ELMA Designer.

Fig. 5. ELMA Designer. List of configurations

If you need to install a BPM App and have a downloaded .elma3 file, open the BPM Apps tab of ELMA Designer and click Install (fig. 6), in the toolbar. The component installation procedure will start.

Fig. 6. ELMA Designer. BPM Apps tab

Once you sign in to ELMA Designer, the installation process begins.

Installation of ELMA components consists of several steps. Use the

and

buttons to switch between the steps. To stop installation, click

Step 1. Components to install

In this dialogue box (Fig. 6) you can see the components selected in ELMA Store for installation.

Fig. 6. ELMA Designer. "Step. 1. Components to install"

Step 2. Checking configuration export file

At this step (fig.7), ELMA checks the configuration file, selected at the first step. The check may take a while, wait until it is complete. After the check, this dialog box may display information, warnings and error messages.

The guide for setting up the component, attached to the ELMA Store component (at step 10 of creating a BPM App), is available at the second step of component installation (fig. 7). Before installing the component, read the guide and check the respective box. You will not be able to continue the component installation without it. If necessary, you can save the guide to your computer.

Fig. 7. ELMA Designer. Step 2. Checking the configuration export file

Other guides attached to the component become available after it has been installed. By default these files are in the folder: ../<ELMA directory>/UserConfig/Store/<Component Name>/<Component Version> (fig. 8).

Fig. 8. Documentation folder

Steps 3 and 4 are similar to the steps of configuration import. For more information, see the corresponding Help section.