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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

Externalizing forms


Apart from creating forms inside Bonita Studio, we are also given the option of externalizing forms. This option is only available in the Subscription Pack version, not in the Community Version. However, we shall see the usefulness of this feature here. We can create our own forms outside the studio and integrate them in the workflow. For each step in the workflow, we can point the entry page flow to an external URL where we would be defining our forms. We need to make sure that our forms serve the correct information according to the case. For this reason, we can pass the process instance and the activity instance from the Bonita Engine to the external forms. We can then make use of APIs to set parameters and run connectors from the external forms.

Each web form of each case can be identified by two parameters: the process instance UUID and the activity instance UUID. These parameters are received from the Studio by making use of the Bonita variables from the Groovy editor...