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Bonita Open Solution 5.x Essentials

By : Rohit Bhat
Book Image

Bonita Open Solution 5.x Essentials

By: Rohit Bhat

Overview of this book

Creating delightful web-based applications backed by complex business logic and intricate workflows is just one of the many things you can easily achieve by leveraging Bonita Open Solution. It is a highly customizable and efficient tool for business process modeling. Bonita Open Solution is a one-stop solution for developing scalable applications with a nifty user management system and easy deployment. This pragmatic, hands-on guide to developing complex applications is packed with succinct tips and demonstrations of the various aspects of Bonita Open Solution. This book will show you how to make the best use of the Bonita BPM tool, leverage its powerful backend engine, and design business application workflows with ease. By the end of this book, you will be able to develop a complete business process application. Right from designing web forms to integrating business logic to finally deploying the application on a server, this book takes you through the entire development cycle of an application created using Bonita Open Solution. You will learn about modeling business processes in Bonita, creating customizable web forms, and using connectors, contingencies, and transitions to move forward in the workflow. It also highlights the various page flows available, as well as the ease of use of the drag-and-drop, widget-based modular design of Bonita Studio. After developing the application, you will also learn about the various options for deployment, and the different environments on which it can be deployed.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Bonita Open Solution 5.x Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Pool variables versus step variables


Bonita gives us the options to create two kinds of variables with regard to scope: pool variables and step variables. Pool variables are akin to global variables in any programming language and step variables correspond to the local variables of a function.

The type of variables, integers or text, are the same for both pool and step variables. Only their scope differs. For example, there might be an integer variable such as an ID number that might be required in all the steps of the workflow. We would have to make this a pool variable so that it can be accessed by all steps. On the other hand, one of the steps might have a field, called name, which might be required only at that step. Hence, it makes sense to make name a step variable that is accessible only by that step.

To define a pool variable, select the pool and click on the Data tab in the details panel. We can add the variables by clicking on the Add... button. Similarly, to define a step variable...