Architecture

Important

The CSS styles, Java methods, etc. which are not explicitly documented are only used internally in Portal. Don’t use them because they can be changed in future versions.

Basically, you can deploy both the Portal and Projects into one application. This makes sense for simple applications. However, migration can be difficult with this approach. So we recommend deploying the Portal and your projects into separate applications.

The Portal multi applications

The Portal and Projects using it should be deployed in different applications but in the same security context.

multi-app-structure

The Portal App consists of the following modules: portal-components, portal and axonivy-express. While axonivy-express is optional, all other modules are mandatory.

process-module-structure

portal-components

Contains a set of public UI components

This module contains Ivy components such as User Selection, Role Selection, Document Table, Process Chain, Process History, and Process Viewer,… These components provide the public API for the portal, but are independent of the modules portal and axonivy-express. You can use them in your own applications.

portal

Contains portal specific UI components, templates and pages

The module portal provides a set of specific UI components that you need to use and administer (or manage) the portal, templates for developer and portal pages.

The templates offer features like top menu, application menu and user menu. It also contains start process links to default pages like Portal home, Portal task list, Portal case list etc..

axonivy-express

No Code Process Management

This tool set allows end users to create their own processes and manage them easily. It gives users more flexibility when working with the Portal.

This project has been extended from portal. It allows the end user to

  • Create his own workflow

  • Create and modify a web form for this workflow

Axon Ivy Express also provides an ad hoc process feature. When Express is deployed, users can start an ad hoc process from any task. Ad hoc allows users to define additional process steps which will be executed before the current task.