We're updating some of our product names. K2 Five is now Nintex Automation. You may see both product names in our help pages while we make this change.

Legacy Designers

This content applies to legacy design tools (such as K2 Studio, K2 for Visual Studio, or the Silverlight-based K2 workflow design tool). If you have upgraded from K2 blackpearl 4.7, these tools may still be available in your environment. These legacy tools may not be available, supported, or behave as described, in future updates or versions of K2. Please see the legacy component support policy for more information about support for these components.

You can only see and access these designers if your environment was upgraded from K2 blackpearl 4.7.

K2 Studio

K2 Studio is an installable design environment that is familiar and easy to use. Some of the features of K2 Studio include:

K2 Toolbox : Providing access to K2 components and wizards
Visual Process Designer : An design canvas for visually modeling workflows and business applications

K2 Studio is used to create data definitions (SmartObjects) and business logic applications (workflows) using K2 Wizards to automate processes that need data from business systems along with human decision points.

K2 for Visual Studio

K2 for Visual Studio integrates the K2 design process with Microsoft Visual Studio. Similar to K2 Studio, K2 for Visual Studio provides a visual development environment for creating SmartObjects and workflows. One primary difference between the two development environments is that you can write custom .NET code using K2 for Visual Studio for implementation into your K2 applications.

The design experience is driven by process and event wizards, lines, activities, and rules, created on the design canvas.

K2 Workflow Designer (Legacy/Silverlight)

K2 Workflow Designer (Legacy/Silverlight) can be accessed from a Form in the catalog tree, or from K2 for SharePoint. Workflows are made up of a sequence of tasks for users and tasks for the K2 server. The topics in this section describe how to build workflows in more detail.