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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

Chapter 3. Creating and Customizing Web Forms

One of the highlights of Bonita Studio is the ability to design web forms in a simple and intuitive drag-and-drop interface. This takes care of most of the details while designing a web form. Also, in the description panel, we can easily define the data in the web form that we’re interested in. Let us now create a new process, which incorporates many web forms. We will aim at creating a series of web forms for booking flight tickets by an agent. Let us look at the elements that such an application would have:

  • A welcome page, where the user will be allowed to make a selection between booking a ticket and submitting a report

  • For booking a flight ticket, the user has to enter his travel dates and so on

  • Then he will have to choose the flight he wants from a list of flights

  • Finally, he will be redirected to the payment page

  • A confirmation e-mail will be sent to him after the successful payment

  • He will also be able to submit a report instead of booking a...