What's new in pSeven products

As a cloud-native collaborative platform, from day one pSeven Enterprise allows users to share their workflows with each other – to use “as is” in Run-only mode, modify them together in real time or build bigger stories, using shared workflows as references.

But what if the whole team is working on the same project and person-to-person sharing is not enough? In recent releases we introduced Workspaces – a shared space on the platform, where members can truly collaborate.

With granular setup of permissions, you can now organize group work and enable many scenarios, like:

• Separating access and organizing collection of Apps and workflows for different groups of users – everyone will see and use only what they need.
• Using Workspace as a centralized storage for a project – and even with people joining and leaving all workflows and results will stay available and traceable. And when the project is over, simply archive or even remove the data to save the space.
• Providing your users with examples or run-ready workflows for them to build their own stories in personal workspace - with read-only permission you can be sure nobody will alternate your collection.
• Inspecting and debugging the workflows developed by your users together with them – even in live mode.

It is also important to mention that workspaces not only allow you to group users – they provide control over resources associated with the group. For example, you can set storage quota for each workspace, ensuring that it won’t occupy more than expected amount of the storage space on the server.

In our daily engineering routines, we often use external resources, like:

• remote machines for specific simulation tools;
• HPC servers to offload heavy tasks;
• PLM and SPDM systems to get inputs or store results;
• other databases and web-services to retrieve data;
• etc.

And all of those resources may be used in automated workflows. Despite being different in purpose, they all have something in common – the user needs to provide credentials to access them: passwords, authentication keys etc.

pSeven Enterprise provides not only secure mechanics to store credentials but also allows to use them in the connector blocks in the workflows. Dedicated “Secret” datatype allows users to simply type their personal credentials as a string or select a previously used values that are stored in personal protected vaults.

However, the collaborative nature of pSeven Enterprise implies even more control over such settings. Imagine that you share a workflow with such credentials with your colleague – you not only don’t want him to see your password (even if it's encrypted) and username, but you also want to force him to specify his own.

With the Personal Parameter (PP) setting you can mark any port of any block as your private setting and anyone who works with the same workflow in the shared mode will be forced to specify his own values for his own runs. Everyone will see and use only his own values, while using the same shared workflow!

AppsHub in pSeven Enterprise enables ultimate democratization of engineering routines. It is a corporate collection of workflow-powered web apps, which can be executed via user interface in your browser or via API to be used as simulation web services.

Release 2025.02 concludes the series of updates in Appshub, intended to address various topics:

• Custom Web app development simplification:
• pSeven Enterprise automatically generates default user interface for your Web apps. It provides all basic controls and required options, like file upload. But we often want to have something fancier or case-specific – and in pSeven Enterprise you can develop your own UI for any Web app. With recent update such customization is even more convenient than before – now the platform takes care of all basic features, like log display or run buttons, allowing you to focus only on your custom elements and implement them easily with new Web app API.
• File navigation and access:
• We are often interested not only in values of some parameters as simulation results, but also in files. Updates in AppsHub introduce convenient navigation over folders and files of the Web app, allowing users to browse and download what they need. Moreover, users now can easily explore different runs of the Web app and access their results with a dedicated navigation tab.
• Security updates and controls:
• AppsHub is a powerful tool to share engineering methods, captured as automated processes, with a wide audience. But it also means that you may not only provide access but protect the embedded know-how or ensure different users won’t interfere.
• With recent updates, Web apps provide full security even if exposed to external users. Special settings allow author to specify if he allows the workflow behind the Web app to be accessible or provide a whitelist of resulting files, which can be downloaded.

Direct integration blocks were updated to support most recent versions:

• StarCCM block was updated to support newer versions, explicitly tested with version 2302 and should work with all versions above.

• FloEFD block was updated for compatibility with up-to-date versions of Siemens FloEFD.