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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

Application Look'n'feel


The option of editing a particular Look'n'feel template is available only in the Subscription Pack version of Bonita Open Solution. Editing a Look'n'feel template is made pretty easy with the editor provided by Bonita. Let us have a look at the way to create a new Look'n'feel and edit it.

Click on the Look'n'feel menu button and select New. Here, we can define a new Look'n'feel by selecting existing elements as templates. We have much more options to choose from in the Subscription Pack compared to the Community Edition while applying Look'n'feel to a form.

Note that we can edit the Look'n'feel for forms as well as the User Experience. Select the white application template as it is a broad form that would be useful in displaying the elements of our form in a better manner. Name the new Look'n'feel and select Create. This opens up the Look'n'feel editor.

Figure 7.4: The Look'n'feel editor in Bonitasoft

Here, the left-hand panel has all the attributes of this particular...