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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

Changing Look'n'feel


Click on any pool and navigate to the Application tab. Here, after selecting the Look'n'feel tab, we can click on Apply a look'n'feel. Bonita gives certain default templates for Look'n'feel. We can even import our own Look'n'feel here. The default Look'n'feel have a preview image that can help us gauge how the template might look like.

Figure 7.2: Applying a Look'n'feel resource

For a detailed view of the Look'n'feel, you can even apply it and run the application to check the various styling elements. Note that if you apply a new Look'n'feel, you lose all the information that you might have previously edited.

A Look'n'feel resource has five templates for various style elements:

  • Process container: This template is used to add styling elements and JavaScript around the process layout and related resources.

  • Process layout: This is the template used for laying out the process. The process layout includes the top header of the Web page and links for logging out, inbox navigation...