4. Use the Engine

The main page of the Axon Ivy Engine looks like this

The Axon Ivy Engine is running in demo mode. This is because you did not install a valid license yet nor did you configure a system database. Note, that everything that you do with the Axon Ivy Engine running in demo mode is lost when you shut down the engine. However, you can use the engine also in demo mode and try out the pre-installed Portal application by clicking on the Portal Home link. To login use one of the predefined demo users: demo, guest or admin. The passwords of the demo users are equal to the user names (E.g. demo for the demo user). Login as demo user and try to create new Express Workflow process (rocket link at the top of the portal process list).

Configure the new Express Workflow process as follows:

Save the workflow by pressing the Save Workflow button. Now this new created workflow can be started from the process start list. Do so and after that, logout, then login again as guest user. On the task list, you now see the open task from your new created Workflow process that you created before. Try to work on the task by clicking on it:

Go ahead and play around with the Express Workflow process. Try out different types of tasks.

Note

In Axon Ivy a task is a piece of work (a part of a process) that is assigned to a user or role. A user to whom a task is assigned or who has the role to which a task is assigned can work on the task. When a user works on a task the task disappears from the task list of other users who might also able to work on the task. This means only one user can really work on a task at the same time. In a process, it is possible to define parallel tasks. Therefore, it is possible that two or more users work parallel on different tasks of the same process instance. In Axon Ivy a process instance is called a case.