Designing forms for end users is already pretty straightforward – it’s relatively simple to define and configure the fields in a form using the drag-and-drop widgets provided in Bonita Studio Form Builder. Did you know you can adjust the widget palette to change the way it displays the widgets available — and even customize it to show only the widgets you use most often?
There are 3 different display views of the widget palette. Right-click on the palette to see the options. Use “customize” to select which widgets to hide from your custom palette (or to show them again).
If you want the maximum amount of space for your form grid, hide the palette completely.
This video shows how!
(For maximum whiteboard space, you can hide the Overview and Details panels too.)
What is the first thing you see when you start an RCP product? The splash screen.
What is the second thing you see when you start an Eclipse RCP product? The intro page. This page is the first interaction that the user has with your product. It deserves real effort to ensure that your users feel comfortable when opening the product. Also, you can leverage this page to add dynamic content, that can be used, for example, for direct communication between your company and your users. Then it can become a tool for both user-friendliness and marketing, with a relatively low effort. It’s worth it!
In this post we will describe how we leverage the intro page extensibility and API to develop a more ergonomic and marketing-friendly intro page. Everything you will read here can be found or taken directly from the Eclipse Help contents, but I’ll try to explain it more practically. Read the rest of this entry »
If you work like me, with 2 screens, I’m pretty sure that you will enjoy this tip. To put the “details view” on your second screen, just to drag and drop the view from Bonta Studio to your second screen. Watch the video Read the rest of this entry »
BOS 5.3 provides a few new features in the design palettes provided in Bonita Studio. This short video shows where to find the new palette options (hint: they’re next to the whiteboard!!) and some of the new context palette options on process design elements.
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 »
