Behind the Scenes with Bonita #4 (16 November -> 22 November 2009 )

This week, BonitaSoft and eXo Platform (an open source portal platform provider) announced a terrific OEM agreement, that follows 4 years of collaboration between our two communities. eXo Platform now uses Bonita in its Document Management System.

Miguel and Rodrigue participated in fOSSa (Free Open Source Software Academia Conference). During this conference, Miguel presented the BonitaSoft open source vision to a full house (standing room only). Lots of questions about Bonita Open Solution and its development roadmap.

Development highlights

0000781 Provide a simple Repository 0000758 settings management 0000800 Attached Docs 0000828 Connector WIzard Inconsistent after "previous" operations 0000785 Deadlines definition 0000792 Add a message to explain what is the generated name 0000793 Default process naming 0000799 Bug when modifying a text and switching process 0000810 Add ability to use expression inputs for ALL widgets 0000812 integrate steps of subprocess instances into the parent instance 0000740 Improve reuse of forms 0000747 Use gridlayout for the forms 0000748 Generate HTML from design on the diagram 0000749 Preview of html from studio form design 0000750 let the user choose the default widget to display for Stats 0000754 display the priority on tasks 0000573 When deleting a referenced element (group, data...), references must be deleted too 0000680 improve filters mechanism 0000756 data update 0000635 Continuous Integration Tests on form diagram 0000822 Support output parameters on connector wizards 0000795 Priority on tasks 0000755 improve requests on engine 0000257 Add an SMTP server to Continuous Integration

Live from R&D

groovy-editor-previewDo you know Groovy? Groovy is a pretty neat script language based on java syntax. Well, in Bonita Open Solution, you are now able to use it everywhere! Want to write a complex condition for a transition? Groovy. Want to concatenate the first and last name from a user profile in a process variable? Groovy. Want to capitalize the first letter of a proper name? Groovy supports all this (and more)... But the killer feature is not the support of Groovy. It's the Groovy editor embedded in Bonita Studio! With this editor you can write Groovy expressions quickly and test the results immediately!

What other useful suggestions do you have to improve Bonita?

Welcome to the open source BPM community

We are pleased to welcome:

alfonso.badillo, tonyves, sacredwkb, dtd, alainstephan, ranjith, picovidago, rgenco, Jelte, msigmond, iker, Leviko, avinash_guru, kckleong, kmwr, iporsut, dlukyanov

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They're blogging about us

eXo Platform : official blog of eXo Platform.

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They're tweeting about us

miguelvaldes, rodrigue, theo_35, Scratsh, bonitasoft, klessou, pcoffre, glaforge, Tedesign, bricerevenant, benjmestrallet, talend, ydemontcheuil, peter_dh, gmarti, FOSSwiki, nieuwbourg, ldubost, TheTechGang, bpmchannel, TheBPMNetwork, LudoMP, openbi, planetlibre, csouillard, cedric_exbrayat, cedricth, charoy, SalonDocumation, jlrigau, jplaisne, gadgeteria, gaelblondelle, peterneo, SoftwareLibre, ow2, nadia_eXo

Our hash tags : #bos5 = Bonita Open Solution 5 , #bonitasoft , #bpm = business process management, #workflow , #opensource = Open Source, #oss = Open Source Software, #ow2

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