Process Capture overview

Important: Process Capture is currently in Beta testing and only available on the Expert and Enterprise tiers. Please contact Nintex support for further information.

The Advanced Preview testing period has been extended to mid-April, after which Process Capture will be exclusively available to customers with an Expert or Enterprise tier license. Customers who no longer have access to the feature will retain access to any procedures already generated using the feature, but can no longer view/create new captures or generate new procedures from captures.

To create a process model, your Promaster A Nintex Promapp system administrator who administers a Nintex Promapp site and has rights to view and edit all areas of a Nintex Promapp site. must have enabled the Process Capture add-on and granted access to your role.

Process Capture harnesses AI to swiftly document processes directly from real user activities, reducing manual effort and ensuring objective documentation. This is all seamlessly integrated within Process Manager for optimal clarity and compliance with writing guideline. By using Process Capture to record step-by-step activities you minimize human error and enhance consistency, ensuring adherence to documented best practices and improving process reliability.

The key to creating manageable processes is to keep them simple. Break up complex processes into smaller sub-processes that can be linked. For more guidance on creating good processes use the same concepts as the Process writing guidelines

Process Capture has three basic steps:

  1. Record user actions and tasks - this uses the Process Capture widget.

  2. Analyze those images and meta data using cognitive AI to create the draft process.

  3. Review of the draft steps - you can delete actions and steps that are not needed.

The draft process can then be accessed in the procedure panel, allowing you to assign actions and add further content to it.

Note: Process Capture does not collect back-end information from log files or databases. The Process Capture widget does not capture text strings typed by users such as passwords (though textual information is extracted from screen shots when generating a procedure)​.

Process Capture must be activated in your Process Manager instance before you can use it. Contact your Nintex Account Manager for more information and to request activation.

Process Capture runs the Process Capture widget on the user's PC. Their computer must meet the following requirements:

Item

Requirement

Processor

i3 / 2 cores minimum

i5 / 4 cores recommended

RAM

8 GB

Supported workstations

  1. Windows desktops

  2. Remotely managed workstations, like:

    • Remote client machines of a terminal server running Microsoft Terminal 2016 and up

    • Cloud desktops running Amazon WorkSpaces client application

OS

Windows 10 (64- or 32-bit)

Windows 11 (64- or 32-bit)

Windows 7 and 8 are not supported.

Supported browsers for Process Recorder recording

  • Chrome v69 or higher

  • Edge v17 or higher

  • Mozilla Firefox 63 or higher

Network bandwidth

500 MB/day per active Process Recorder client

~15 KB/s per active Process Recorder client

~120 KB average packet size (1 user action per packet)

See Using Process Capture for information about using Process Capture.