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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

Contingency


The contingency feature is available only in the Subscription Pack version of Bonita Studio, which is essentially a paid version. There are ways to manage the contingencies with JavaScript, but it is often tedious. Bonita provides this as an additional feature in the Subscription Pack. Hence, if you have bought the Subscription Pack, you are all ready to use these contingencies.

A contingency can be defined on a particular widget. This contingency can be about the visibility of the widget and also about the values that are made available in the data section of the widget. Let us get down to an example to test the contingency.

  1. Open the BookTickets web form and click on the Return date widget. In the Contingency tab of this widget, we can specify the behavior of this widget based on certain contingencies. What we would like to do is that, if the user clicks on One way trip, the Return date widget should not be shown, but if he/she clicks on Return trip, he/she should be shown the...