The “K2 blackpearl Core” training course is designed to give participants the fundamental knowledge required to work with the K2 platform, and covers the core components, functionality and use of the K2 blackpearl platform. This course is the foundation for all specialized competencies offered by K2, and should be completed before branching into a specialized competency.
The “K2 blackpearl Core” training course is intended for those who need to work with the K2 platform, including K2 application designers and developers, system administrators, project managers, business analysts, solution architects, citizen developers, support staff, SharePoint Site owners and administrators and infrastructure specialists.
After completing the “K2 blackpearl Core” training content, participants may move on to other learning courses based on the intended use of the K2 platform.
This course is a 100-level course and participants do not need any K2 knowledge or experience prior to starting this course. See additional requirements in the Course Prerequisites section.
During this course, participants will learn:
To get most out of this training course, it is highly recommended that the participants have the following skills and proficiency levels.
| Technology/Skill | Proficiency | Notes and examples |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Windows | Intermediate | Can launch programs in Microsoft windows, can use browsers like Internet Explorer. |
| Application concepts | Basic | Understand what a database is and what a user interface is. |
This online site contains the course materials for this training course, including the hands-on exercise step-by-step guides. If required, the course materials are also available as downloadable files.
| Item | Format | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Course Handbook | The student guide (slide handouts) for this course, excluding the hands-on exercises | |
| Course Exercises Guide | The step-by-step exercises for this course, excluding the slide handouts |
This course includes several exercises where participants will build K2 applications and work with K2 in a live K2 environment. For training events led by a K2 instructor or purchased with K2 credits, a K2 Virtual Machine will be provided in either local (virtual machine) or hosted (cloud) modes. Depending on the course logistics and delivery mechanism, K2 may provision the hosted environments ahead of time or participants will use on-demand provisioning to set up their virtual environments. Please refer to the K2 Knowledge Base article KB001397 for more information about the different Virtual Machine options and the prerequisites for each approach.
For hosted (cloud) virtual machines, participants should verify that they are able to access the virtual machine as described in the Knowledge Base article KB001279 prior to the training event starting, to allow sufficient time to troubleshoot connectivity issues.
For self-directed training where K2 does not provide a cloud-hosted virtual machine, participants may download a Virtual Machine image and use virtualization software to run the machine. This procedure is described further in the Knowledge Base article KB001613. Alternatively, the hands-on exercises in this training course can be repeated in any environment with K2 4.6.9 or later installed, provided that the participant has sufficient rights to deploy K2 applications to their K2 environment. When using your own environment to complete the exercises, some screenshots may be different (for example when searching for users or environment-specific settings shown in screenshots), but fundamentally the exercises can be rebuilt in any K2 environment.
The practical exercises for this training course can also be completed in any K2 environment, as long as you have the necessary permissions to deploy application elements and administer the K2 environment.
This course will take approximately 20 hours to complete (excluding breaks and depending on the additional exercises selected). The course is divided into five modules:
The 100.ABZ: Introduction to K2 training module is a high-level introduction to K2 and covers the following:
This is a very high-level introduction and overview of K2, and there are no practical hands-on exercises or demos in this module. However, we will be describing some core components and uses of the K2 platform that help to set the scene for the next series of learning modules in this course.
The 100.BHX: Introduction to K2 Applications with K2 Designer training module explains how to build K2 applications in terms of Data, Forms and Workflows. In this module, we will use K2 Designer to build an application with Data (SmartObjects), Forms (SmartForms) and Workflow.
This module covers the following concepts:
Although this module focuses on the web-based K2 Designer which may or may not be used by all organizations, we will be explaining some fundamental concepts about the elements that make up an application, and the knowledge gained in this module will set the scene for other leaning modules that delve further into Workflow and SmartObjects. Therefore, even if you do not intend to use K2 Designer in your organization, we recommend that you complete this learning module to build up your initial knowledge of K2 applications.
The 100.CWL: Reporting in K2 training module explains how to use the available standard and custom reporting in K2 to report on workflows.
This module covers the following concepts:
The 100.DND: Basic K2 Administration training module is focused on common, day-to-day administration tasks in K2.
This module covers the following concepts:
The 100.EDI: Building Workflows and SmartObjects with K2 Studio training module is focused on using K2 Studio to build more advanced workflows and more advanced SmartObjects. This module assumes that you have some basic knowledge of K2, such as having completed the 100ABZ: Introduction to K2 and 100BHX: Introduction to K2 Applications with K2 Designer learning modules.
This module covers the following concepts:
Many of the design concepts and user interfaces described in this learning module apply equally to K2 for Visual Studio. Some of the advanced workflow and SmartObjects concepts also apply to the browser-based K2 Designer tool.
Beyond this course, the following resources and content are also available to users of K2 blackpearl.
| Content/Resource | Overview and notes |
|---|---|
| K2 blackpearl Product Documentation | The official product documentation for K2 blackpearl |
| K2 Community Site | A community of K2 professionals featuring forums, blogs, samples and other resources |
| K2 Knowledge Center | K2’s Knowledge Base |
| K2 Product Support | The K2 portal where you may log product support requests |
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