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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

Customizing web forms


Open the TicketingWorkflow process and open the Web form of the BookTicket step. Let us have a look at the customization options available to us at the form level in Bonita. Click on the TripOptions radio button. Here, we can specify the look and feel of these options in the Appearance tab. We get the options to modify the grid, cell, items, label, and field elements. For each of these components, we can change the text styles.

Let us look at each of these elements individually:

Figure 7.1: Customizing different fields of web forms

  • Grid: For the grid element, we can specify the height and width of the grid, either absolutely in pixels or relatively in percentage.

  • Cell: In the cell element, in addition to specifying the height and width of the cell, we can also enter the class of our custom css file. We have to include this custom file and mention the name of the class present in the css file. Also, we can specify the css style attributes.

  • Items: The items style indicates...