Starting Business Process Visual ARCHITECT

Ways of starting Business Process Visual ARCHITECT

BP-VA can be launched through accessing the Start menu.

Start BP-VA via Start menu

For Linux users, you can start BP-VA through the shortcuts in desktop, created by the installer.

Starting Business Process Visual ARCHITECT (for floating license client whose host is IP-4-enabled)

If you are a floating license client, and if your host is IP-4 enabled, you need to start BP-VA with a startup script in order to connect to the server. Here are the steps:

1. Copy BP-VA.bat under the scripts folder of VP Suite installation directory to become Startup.bat
2. Edit Startup.bat
3. Add -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true to the script
   

   Editing the start up script

4. Save
5. From now on, execute Startup.bat to run BP-VA.

Selecting workspace

A workspace is a directory used to store all settings, user interface perspectives and other preferences defined for the working environment (settings can be configured via Tools > Options... in BP-VA). A workspace also stores all the teamwork login information and local copies of teamwork projects. In the case of switching computers, you simply need to copy the whole workspace directory to the new computer and specify the new workspace when starting BP-VA. All your teamwork information and settings will then be transferred to the new computer.

The Workspace Launcher appear when running BP-VA.

Specify the workspace folder.

If you do not want this dialog box to appear again, check Use this as the default and do not ask again. This will cause BP-VA to open the specified workspace folder automatically the next time.

If you already have an existing workspace, you can import the settings from there by clicking Import Workspace....
Click OK to continue.