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Thank you for using Questetra BPM Suite.

The service system will be changed from July 1st, 2020, as described in the Expansion of Service System. I will explain how to change from Business or VIP that are before the change to Basic, Advanced, Professional or Enterprise Edition which will be after the change.

Differences between the Service Systems

There are the following differences in the paid Edition between the service systems until the end of June and after July 1st of 2020.

Service system until the end of June

• Type: Business, VIP (2 types)
• All functions and support of “Questetra BPM Suite” are available in both Editions. The differences between the Editions are due to differences in the configuration and performance of the service platform.

Service system from July 1st

• Type: Basic, Advanced, Professional, Enterprise (4 types)
• Available functions and support for “Questetra BPM Suite” vary by Edition. The available functions are the same for Professional and Enterprise, but there are differences in the support content and the configuration and performance of the service platform. Please refer to the following for more detailed information on each edition.

Transition to service system after July

The remaining contract period as of the end of June will be automatically carried over as a new edition contract. There is no extra charge at that time.

• Business (discontinued) ⇒ Professional (new)
• VIP (discontinued) ⇒ Enterprise (new)

Until the end of June, you can order renewal for the next contract period at the same usage fee as before. (for a period of 1 or 2 years)

FAQ

Q. My Business contract is going to be expired in September 2020. Which Edition will my contract be during the period between July and September?

A. It will be Professional.

Every Business that was contracted before July 2020 will be available as Professional on and after July 1st. For service system from July, please see Expansion of Service System.

Q. My current contract will end in April 2020. I want to renew it for two years before the end of June, then what will the exact term be? And, what will happen if I need to add more users during that period?

A. Your contract term will be from May 2020 to April 2022. In case you need to add User seats, you will be able to add user seats at the contracted price until the term-end. (10 users unit)

Q. What if I do not sign up by the end of June 2020?

A. You will choose from Basic, Advanced, Professional or Enterprise at the time of the next renewal. For service system from July, please see Expansion of Service System.

Q. My current contract is Business (Flexible). How do I do to make a contract for two years term within June?

A. You can order a Business with an annual contract by the end of June.

E.g. You continue to use Business (Flexible) until June. Then you place order Business (annual) for two years (from July 2020 to June 2022) within June. For use after July 2022, you can choose from Basic, Advanced, Professional and Enterprise contracts.

Inquiries

• Email: support@questetra.com
• Inquiry form: https://questetra.com/contact/

For customers who are subscribing via partner-company, please consult your partner. For service system from July, please see Expansion of Service System.

Original Japanese version

Thank you for using Questetra BPM Suite.

The service system will be changed on July 1, 2020. At that time, reception for the Starter Edition will be closed and a new Trial mode (free) will begin.

For details, see “For Starter Edition Users“.

Original Japanese version

Nationally Popular (?) A walking game!

Do you play ‘Dragon Quest Walk’? (*a smartphone app of SQUARE ENIX)

In my family, we all love Dragon Quest and not only me, but also my kids (9 years old and 7 years old ) play with the app.

The way to commute is by walking!

I walk to work every day.

So, it is an overwhelming advantage over the children. (Dad should be strong all the time)

And these days, I walk longer to earn more advantages. (Sounds like a cheat)

According to the statistics of the automatic measurement application Google Fit, I often walk since the release of the app of ‘Dragon Quest Walk’ (9/12 release). Especially after the day when my kids installed it on my old phone (9/14), the daily number of steps doubled. (See the calendar below)

*Android and iPhone are equipped with gyro-sensors, accelerometers, and GPS, so they can automatically count steps and distance traveled in quite an accurate way. The app specialized in such functions is called “Activity Tracker”.

Use in business reports?

One day, when I was walking, I could think of many ideas such as more effective usage of Fitness Data and detection of overwork.

For example,

The data of the number of steps of couriers who have been carrying their company smartphones

If there is such data today, I wonder, should it be managed by the company?

(As well as that, I considered the data of the number of steps taken by the tour conductor of a travel agency and that of the distance traveled by an outside salesperson, etc)

It is true that this includes private time data, so it is difficult to handle.

But if I extract only working hours (at any given time), I hope it’s okay to use it.

What I point to here, is that the Labor Standards Act, which relies solely on time for wages (compensation), is even more unreasonable from the viewpoint of “Productivity”. Therefore, I always think the system of paying a premium for more than 10,000 steps per day would become reasonable. (Sounds outrageous)

Implement in REST API!

Anyway, I made the system.

If you look at the super simple Workflow Diagram and the Data input screen above, you can somehow understand. What I would like to show you is,

The Task of “Picking up the step count data of arbitrary time”

is automated. (Name of the Automatic Task: Google Fit: Dataset; Aggregate Step Count via Fit REST API)

For example, the following things are possible.

• A report of the number of steps from 9 a.m. to 17 p.m. is received automatically the next morning
• The number of steps in the daily report is automatically added to the daily report which was submitted

Furthermore, if you set up a Task for a superior such as “Superior Approval”, it would become a great workflow (maybe?)

Walking is not relevant to my job, so there is a doubt whether it’s useful or not (this is difficult to verify). If you think the system I developed can contribute to the automation of work at the company, please let me know. If you are eager to use the system, we would like to improve the specification of the automatic processing.

P.S.

Incidentally, “Fit REST API (v1)” was a very peculiar API. (Please refer to the link for the implementation script)

The format of posting Request Json (aggregate) works the same way as the Slides API and the Sheets API (batchUpdate), however Fit REST API (v1) causes some problems below.

• Not referring to device Raw data, regardless of the permission (OAuth2Scope)
• A part of the ID is obfuscated so that only the data generation clients can see it
• Recording in nanoseconds instead of milliseconds
• The number of steps and distance crossing the time boundary are added to the total calculations

How do you like it?

In addition, I was surprised that the parameters will be designed to obtain others’ data in the future (although it obtains only my own data). While similar services to Google Fit Website are unlikely to be revived, we will continue to monitor the trends of other services.

let requestObj = {};
    requestObj.aggregateBy = [];
    requestObj.aggregateBy[0] = {};
    requestObj.aggregateBy[0].dataTypeName
                              = "com.google.step_count.delta";
    requestObj.endTimeMillis   = numEndTimeMillis;
    requestObj.startTimeMillis = numStartTimeMillis;
    requestObj.bucketByTime = {};
    requestObj.bucketByTime.durationMillis = numDurationMillis;
let apiRequest = httpClient.begin(); // HttpRequestWrapper
    apiRequest = apiRequest.bearer( token );
    apiRequest = apiRequest.body( JSON.stringify( requestObj ),
                                  "application/json" );
const apiUri 
      = "https://www.googleapis.com/fitness/v1/users/me/dataset:aggregate";
engine.log( " AutomatedTask Trying: POST " + apiUri );
const response = apiRequest.post( apiUri );

# I personally have kept entering “blood pressure” and “bodyweight”, so I sometimes think to analyze the trend of their increase and decrease in the morning, daytime and evening.

P.P.S.

By the way, you might wonder how far I’ve played Dragon Quest Walk?

I have finished all the stories that have been released so far.

I cleared “Chapter 5.” in Lv 48, of course, there is no charge. (← I can’t cheat before my children.)

I don’t know if I can exercise or maintain my health without game apps but I will enjoy walking with my children for a while. (We are no-charge gamers!)

Original Japanese version

Gutenberg SaaS CMS

1. The Latest Version of Everything!

Aren’t you really an industry guy?
Did you know that Questetra’s website is operated on WordPress.com?

Yes, migration to WordPress 5.0 was forced on us in December 2018. From then on 5.0’s new editor （Gutenberg Editor）has become the standard editor for Questetra.

Indeed…it’s pretty obedient. However, about major cloud products whether they like them or not, at first, “personal experience” has significance…

Of course, the truth is that I was a little anxious. But no cloud product (especially SaaS CMS) can be understood without actually using it, and practice makes perfect. Only after experiencing it can you recognize the objective. Moreover, you can search for links.

2. An Unexpectedly Smooth. Transition

Farewell, the old editor that I have been accustomed to for about 6 years
It’s already 9 months since that “Shocking Day”…

Now my employees and part-timers understand how to use the new visual editor (Gutenberg Editor) when creating an official site or a support site. I think its mechanism is basically more intuitive than the previous editor (Classic Editor). (WordPress 5.2.2 now)

Even old-fashioned people (i.e. me) are now using the “Block Editor” for duplication and arranging.

Speaking of which…if you get into trouble I wonder if Google Assistant will give an old answer to a new problem…(a Zen dialogue)

3. The Latest Version is Not So Flexible

Even though it is a Visual editor, the shortcode continues to be active.
Recently, you might hear that the page looks less attractive because it looks too simple for a website.

Certainly, even for information pages like employment rules, you would like to apply various layout design features. For example,

• Listing “sentences” in the Definition list (dl dd dt)
• Setting a box and insert annotations there
• Setting an accordion to be able to open and close the definition’s explanation section

In these cases, shortcode “start” ([su_foo]) and shortcode “end” ([/ su_foo]) are written in a “Shortcode Block”, and “Shortcode Contents” is written in a “Paragraph Block”. Are you kidding me?

4. Let’s Try a Plugin!

Adopt a Plugin published by a Theme vender
Anyway, “Block Plugin” was installed in Questetra’s WordPress environment.

Brainstorm Force @ India
Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg

Extends the Gutenberg functionality with several unique and feature-rich blocks.

About the design of blocks, I’m in the middle of testing the plugin and I will add new information about the blocks later.

Trivia: “Death of Page Builders” was already expected when Gutenberg debuted. The manufacturer of the WordPress theme “ASTRA” used by Questetra (Brainstorm Force, Inc.) released the Block Plugin quickly. Although I tried it soon after, the plugin (v1.5) at that time was unwillingly rejected because it was difficult to incorporate Font Awesome icons together with Font Awesome Pro. However, the specification was subsequently improved (all Font Awesome Icon were replaced with SVG) in v1.8.1 (alas, no one was aware).