Behind the Scenes with Bonita #3 (9 November -> 15 November 2009 )

Since Bonita Open Solution 5 preview released, we’ve seen a fourfold increase in downloads per day! Really good news. We like getting your feedback, positive and negative, and you can share all of it on the forum.

We’ve updated the community tools this week. We simplified the community registration process. So tell your colleagues to join us in the open source business process management community.

Development highlights

0000805 Support attached documents 0000808 Clase all opened editor when closing application 0000794 Up/Down on connector list 0000766 ConnectorDescriptor API 0000735 Tasks Connectors 0000763 unread message count per label 0000704 List layout issues when reopening diagram 0000741 Can skip an activity 0000745 Associate action to the output of a button 0000769 Enable snap to geometry on creation tool 0000809 Add ability to update a group from a task 0000814 Add ability to export a non-executable process 0000567 Align items on welcome page. 0000738 Groovy expressions with default value of variables 0000737 Deadline parameters 0000543 Talend Connector 0000803 Display the group/candidates for a task on the step form screen

Live from R&D

You asked for it, the BonitaSoft R&D team has done it! For a long time, everyone has been asking us: "how do I manage a document in my process?" Well, now you can easily define attachments (binary files) for your process and define web interfaces to upload and download them. In Bonita Open Solution 5, just define a variable as an attachment -- graphically!

More great news: I asked the R&D team what they think is pretty sexy this week in the new features of Bonita Open Solution 5. Their response: “users are now able to easily customize the forms for web applications.” This is another nifty feature that the community has been waiting for!!! I asked for a demo with a development version and we’re sure that it will be cool! Stay tuned for screenshots.

What other useful suggestions do you have to improve Bonita?

Welcome to the open source BPM community

We are pleased to welcome:

etangeman, JimStag, mixe, eschaere, vargap, gbrisson, starkey, elvion, alagna, ow2_forum, alexandremas, rodrigue, nupogodi, swunleilei310321, jairamrb, rugubara, pgmwek, jreynolds, wwhc, ricardo.avila, noeljc, Step2Next, adegen, dario.battistella, lbagnoud

Not yet a Bonita community member? Join us.

They're blogging about us

Luis Sanabria : Blog dedicated to the Bonita project. A lot of great articles about Bonita 4.x.

Are you blogging about Business Process Management and/or Bonita? Tell us in the comments, so we can link it.

They're tweeting about us

pcoffre, rodrigue, bonitasoft, miguelvaldes, charoy, editeurweb, olivierdelcroix, pascalbousquet

Our hash tags : #bos5 = Bonita Open Solution 5 , #bonitasoft , #bpm = business process management, #workflow , #opensource = Open Source, #oss = Open Source Software

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