Install Workflow Studio

Owned by Phillip Hanegan
Last updated: Nov 18, 2020
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Workflow Studio is the process designer and developer application used by EmpowerID to create workflows, connectors and other design items. As a developer, you can install Workflow Studio on your Windows workstation and get start developing your own workflows and connectors right away. This topic walks you through the steps.

Installing Workflow Studio involves executing PowerShell scripts. Before executing the scripts, please ensure that there is no interference from your execution policy.

How to install Workflow Studio

  1. Navigate your browser to https://empowerid.visualstudio.com/EmpowerID/_git/EID-Tooling?path=%2FPSScripts%2FWorkflowStudioInstaller&version=GBmaster.

  2. Authenticate using the credentials given to you by your organization.

  3. Download the Install-WorkflowStudio_EID-Release.ps1 and Uninstall-WorkflowStudio_EID-Release.ps1 PowerShell scripts.

     

  4. Open Windows PowerShell in Admin mode and navigate to the folder where you downloaded the PowerShell scripts.

  5. Run the Install-WorkflowStudio_EID-Release.ps1 script.

     

  6. Enter the EmpowerID Version Number for which you are installing Workflow Studio and press ENTER.

     

  7. When prompted to select the EmpowerID Install Directory, press ENTER to accept the default or enter another location as desired.

     

  8. Wait for the script to download and install any dependencies that you may not have on your workstation.

     

  9. When prompted to enter a file for the public/private rsa key pair, press ENTER to accept the default or enter another location as desired.

     

  10. Enter a passphrase for your personal key and then enter it again.

     

  11. You should see notepad open with the key. Copy the key.

     

  12. Log in to Azure, click the User Settings icon and select SSH Public Keys.

     

  13. Click New Key.

     

  14. Enter a Name for the key and then paste the key you copied earlier into the Public Key Data field.

  15. Click Add.

     

  16. Back in PowerShell, enter y when asked if the SSH public key is added to Azure DevOps and then press ENTER.

     

  17. Enter your passphrase and then press ENTER.

  18. Wait for Workflow Studio to be installed.

     

  19. You should see that Workflow Studio successfully installed. You can close PowerShell.