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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

User Experience Look'n'feel


In addition to changing the styling of the Web forms, we can also customize the User Experience Inbox view of Bonitasoft. This inbox view again has the HTML and CSS files that you can edit. You can also add certain JavaScript elements to the User Experience console. Let us have a look at the way to create a new User Experience Look'n'feel.

Similarly for creating a new Look'n'feel resource for the Web form, when we click on New in the Look'n'feel menu item, choose the default UserXP to edit. Here, in addition to the elements present in the left-hand panel for the various sections of the User Experience, there are two HTML pages, called BonitaConsole.html and admin.html. The BonitaConsole.html page contains the HTML code of the User Inbox page. The administration page code is contained in admin.html. In these two HTML pages, we can add our own HTML or menu items or buttons to customize the inbox.

The css files contain the styling elements for displaying the Bonita...