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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 JavaScript alternative to the contingency feature


If you are using the Community Edition of Bonitasoft, you can't use contingencies. In that case, there are certain alternatives we can look at. We can use any scripting language, such as JavaScript or JQuery, to achieve what contingencies do. HTML widget is available in the palette section of the form design. In this widget, it is possible to write the JavaScript functions and code. Let us use JavaScript in HTML widget to conditionally display the Return Trip date in the BookTickets step.

In the BookTickets web form, let us drag a new HTML widget from the palette to the bottom of the form.

Note

HTML widget should be placed beneath all the other widgets for it to access the other widgets. If the other widgets are beneath HTML widget, then HTML widget will not be able to access the data or any attributes of these widgets.

Whenever we add a new widget in web forms, we give it a name. This name is used by Bonita to assign the same ID to the HTML...