Just licensed PFI w BCI

Congratulations.
 

:-)

I have the BCI Connector ready to install in the coming weeks, but wanted to know if I could go ahead and run the PFIEnabler on our TEST machine, to see what changes with the Desktop client? Does anyone know? What happens to PFlow Professional? Will i still be able to run my PFProffessional flows in designer, and troubleshoot?

I am just not clear on what changes after enabling PFI??

You will be able to run your ProcessFlow Professional flows just fine (as long as they were already LSF9).

Yeah they are on LSF9. Dont we get new nodes: Resource Manager with this new product?

I am just hesitant to run the enabler because I am not sure what happens. The documentation I got nothing out of (specific to the enabler)

Nothing will be effected by running the Enabler. It just adds the additional functionality. ResourceUpdate is one of the new nodes.

Posted By ConsultDavidW on 03/24/2010 10:44 AM
Nothing will be effected by running the Enabler. It just adds the additional functionality. ResourceUpdate is one of the new nodes.

 

Something is up with my forum posts - they keep showing up blank.. oh well. Anyway what I was saying Dave, our hardware vendor is telling me that running the enabler is pointless until they run the BCI install.. eg: I wont see the new fancy nodes until then. Make sense?

I don't think that's true. You wouldn't be able to run the flow with the integrator nodes on the server but it should work from your desktop.

Your vendor is only partially correct.  The BCI Connectors is only a small part of the Integrator product.  They are in essence new triggers you can use.   Running the Enabler does not install any new functionality, it just allows the PFI nodes to be updated when you drag them into the Designer.  The product has all the full functionality when installed.  

You will be able to update RM, run SQL (if JDBC setup is done), parse XML, run Web Services etc regardless of whether the connectors is installed. Then only thing you won't be able to do is trigger BCI events (such as poll a directory for a file to exist and trigger a flow if it is there).   But you can always manually trigger these type of events until the connectors is installed.

After running the Enabler I went in to my desktop ProcessFlow Professional client and it has not changed - no new nodes, etc...

It doesn't add any new icons but it will allow you to use the ones you have.
Does the title bar list ProcessFlow Professional or ProcessFlow Integrator?

Nope - not on my machine - but it worked on another... huh... oh well. Thanks all.