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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

The attachment variable


The attachment variable is used to store any file attachment in Bonita. As the attachment is internally stored in the database as Binary Large Object (BLOB), this gives the flexibility to store any kind of file attachment, regardless of the extension.

The maximum size of the attachment can be 15 MB. The attachment variable is primarily used in the file widget while creating web forms. Whenever the user clicks on any file object from his system, it is uploaded into the Bonita database and stored as an attachment variable.XML Variable.

Another way we can represent data in Bonita Studio is to use an XML variable to store data in the XML format. Relevant data can be represented in a concise way using XML. For creating this variable in Bonita, simply select the data type as XML. Here, we have to choose the XML namespace and element for the data. We can also add a new schema by importing an XSD file.