The User Experience assigned to the “admin” permits the process administrator to monitor and interact with Processes deployed by the developer. We posted a light review of some of the administrator functions of Bonita User Experience (User XP) in an earlier video. Here is the follow-up to that, a video which looks just at the Settings functions in the admin tools.
Bonita User Experience (User XP) provides the interface for managing individual steps, cases in progress, and deployed processes.
It presents this information in a Web-based, e-mail like interface. When you as the Process developer enter from Bonita Studio, you are automatically logged in as “Admin” with the password bpm.
The Admin’s User Experience assigned to the administrator permits you to monitor and interact with Processes deployed by the developer. This video shows a quick overview of some of the User Experience functions unique to the Administrator. Read the rest of this entry »
Wherever you can enter or apply a data variable in Bonita Solution, the “Edit Expression” option gives you access to a Groovy editor to create a script.
Groovy is a scripting language with syntax similar to Java. In fact, the Groovy editor accepts Java script as well as Groovy, but if you want to streamline and simplify your code even further, Groovy is a good option.
Expressions allow you to customize the behavior of your process. You can, for example:
Here’s a video overview of the Groovy editor in Bonita Open Solution, with a very simple example.
Processes modeled in Bonita Studio are not only executable – the graphic representation or process diagram is also useful when stakeholders in the process need to participate in process design.
Business Process Modeling (BPMN) uses links to allow the process designer to graphically cut up a long and/or complex process sequence and link up parts that are not next to each other on the whiteboard.
This video shows an example process diagram using links.
When a process has multiple paths, the process designer has to specify when and how various alternate paths are taken. One way to do this in Bonita Open Solution is through the use of multiple Submit buttons.
This tutorial video shows one way to do this.
Bonita Open Solution includes a Form Builder that allows the process developer to easily (and graphically) design the contents of forms for end users. In this tutorial, we’ll look at the basic functionality of the Form Builder by creating some form content.