Vacation management Living Application

About

This is an official Living Application example for Bonita >7.10.3

This example demonstrates the following concepts:

• Living Application
• Forms and pages built using the UI Designer
• Process using BDM and contracts
• REST API extensions

Installation

1. Start Bonita Studio 7.10.3 or later
2. Download the project .bos file and REST API extension .zip file
3. Import the .bos file in your Bonita Studio. It contains 5 diagrams: Example-NewVacationRequest, Example-ModifyPendingVacationRequest, Example-CancelVacationRequest, Example-InitiateVacationAvailable and Example-RemoveAllBusinessData. Each diagram includes a single process definition. It also includes business data model definition, default process configuration, application page and definition (i.e. application user interface definition). Important: importing the .bos file will ask you to override your existing business data model.
4. Open the Example-InitiateVacationAvailable diagram and run the process (click on Run button in a Bonita Studio). This process will initialize a business data that store vacation available counter for each Bonita user declared in the default test environment (ACME organization).
5. You can now deploy and run the New Vacation Request, Modify Pending Vacation Request and Cancel Vacation Request processes by clicking on Run button in Bonita Studio. Note that vacation request approval need to be performed by requester (walter.bates) manager (helen.kelly) so you might want to logout and login back with helen.kelly/bpm user. If you want to create (or cancel) several vacation requests, do not click again on Run button. Instead click on the Portal button and in User view go to to Processes tab select the process and click on Start button.
6. You can now deploy the living application that give user an overview of all created vacation request.
   1. First you need to deploy a REST API extension:
      1. In the Portal, switch to Administrator view. Use drop down list on top right corner to switch from User to Administrator.
      2. Go to Resources.
      3. Click on Add button.
      4. Select the vacationRestApiExtension.zip file.
      5. Click on Next button.
      6. Click on Confirm button.
      7. Read more about REST API extension in Bonita official documentation.
   2. Next you need to deploy the application page:
      1. In Bonita Studio project explorer unfold Pages/Forms/Layout node.
      2. Select ExampleVacationManagement application page.
      3. Do a right click and select Deploy.
      4. Read more about pages on the Bonita official documentation.
7. You are now ready to deploy in the Portal the application definition that will use the previously deployed REST API extension and page:
   1. In Bonita Studio project explorer unfold Application descriptors node.
   2. Select Application_Data.xml application descriptor.
   3. Do a right click and select Deploy.
   4. For more information refer to applications in Bonita official documentation.
8. Run the Vacation Management application by accessing to this URL (the port number may vary): http://localhost:8080/bonita/apps/tahiti. You can find the URL of the application in the Portal Administrator view -> Applications.

Screenshots

Vacation Management Living Application

Vacation Management Living Application - Vacation request to cancel

New Vacation Request process

New Vacation Request process - Vacation request creation form

New Vacation Request process - Vacation request review form

Modify Pending Vacation Request process

Cancel Vacation Request process

Cancel Vacation Request process - Vacation request canceled review form

Initiate Vacation Available process

Remove all business data process

Compatibility

This example has been created and built with Bonita 7.10.3 Community Edition.

It should be compatible with any newer version as well as Enterprise Edition.

Known limitations

None so far.

Issues

Reports issues and improvement requests on GitHub tracker.