FlowX custom plugins
Adding new capabilities to the core platform can be easily done by using plugins. FlowX plugins represent already-built functionality that can be added to a FlowX.AI platform deployment.
These could be either one of the provided custom plugins that we’ve already built or building your desired plugin.
On our roadmap, we’re also looking to enhance the plugins library with 3rd party providers, so stay tuned for more.
High-level architecture
The plugins are microservice apps that can be developed using any tech stack. The only requirement is that they need to be able to connect to the core platform using Kafka events.
Introduction to Kafka
Send message task (Kafka)
Receive message task (Kafka)
To interact with plugins, you need to understand a few details about them:
- the events that can trigger them
- the infrastructure components needed
- the needed configurations
Custom plugins
The currently available plugins are:
- Documents - easily generate, host and access any kind of documents
- Notifications - enhance your project with the option of sending custom emails or SMS notifications
- OCR - helps you scan your documents and integrate them into a business process
- Task management - a plugin suitable for back-officers and supervisors as it can be used to easily track and assign activities/tasks inside a company.
- Reporting - a plugin that will help you create and bootstrap custom reports built on generic information about usage and processes metrics
Let’s get into a bit more detail about the custom plugins 🎛️
Document management plugin
Effortless document generation and safe-keeping
The document management plugin securely stores documents, facilitates document generation based on predefined templates and also handles conversion between various document formats.
It offers an easy-to-use interface for handling documents on event-based Kafka streams.
More about Documents plugin
Notifications plugin
Multi-channel notifications made easy
The plugin handles various types of notifications:
- SMS (if a third party service is available for communication management)
- email notifications
- generating and validating OTP passwords for user identity verification
It can also be used to forward custom notifications to external outgoing services. It offers an intuitive interface for defining templates for each kind of notification and handles sending and auditing notifications easily.
More about Notifications plugin
Task management
Helper for back-officers and supervisors, easy track, assignment management
The Task Management plugin has the scope to show a process that you defined using FlowX Designer, using a more business-oriented view. It also offers interactions at the assignment level.
More about Task Management plugin
Customer management
Convenient and secure access to user data
Light CRM uses an Elasticsearch engine to retrieve user details using partial matches on intricate databases.
More about Customer management plugin
OCR plugin
Automatic key information extraction
Used to easily read barcodes or extract handwritten signatures from PDF documents.
More about OCR plugin
Reporting plugin
Easy-to-read dynamic dashboards
Use reporting plugin to build and bootstrap custom reports built on generic information about usage and processes.
More about Reporting plugin
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