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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

Input and output widgets in Bonita


To create input and output widgets, follow the given steps:

  1. Navigate to Process | New and rename the pool to TicketPurchase.

  2. Rename the workflow to TicketingWorkflow.

  3. Next, rename Step1 to Welcome. This step will serve as the welcome page for the consumer. To create web forms for this step, click on the step and subsequently click on the Application tab in the properties panel.

  4. Here, we have the ability to define the entry page form, which is the form that the user will see when he arrives at this step. The view pageform is how the user will access the history of the page. The confirmation page is the message that appears when the form has been submitted. We will now create a web form that the user would have to fill.

  5. Click on the Add... button to add an entry pageflow. By default, the name of this page will be the name of the step.

  6. Click on Finish and a blank web form opens up, along with the widget palette on the left-hand panel that contains all the widgets...