Is it possible to reuse whole process in community edition?

Q&A
1

I understood that open source of bonita is the same community edition ,but 
there is contradiction  between two articles:one(2018)said : open source bonita supports reuse model(process)  and another article  said it does not support  model reuse in community edition-?!

can I get help ,which is correct?

2

Hi Rowa,

Yes you have different options to reuse an existing project as the staring point for a new one (ie import/export capabilities, clone project from Git...) You will find all the details here

best

Miguel

3

Hi,

Processes resuablity can be achieved using BPMN Call Activities or BPMN Messages.
It is possible since day one in Bonita community.

HTH
Romain

4

Hi Rowa,

First of all, if you have new questions about different topics, can you please ask new questions? Indeed, comments are only used to share information about a single topic and help to find the answer. Having one question per topic helps a lot other members to find the answer the are looking for.

Thank you for your understanding :-)

Regarding your question about Call activities and BPM messages, please find here a useful post : https://community.bonitasoft.com/blog/when-use-call-activity-or-bpm-message

Do not hesitate to search in our blog posts as well, there are lots of tips and how tos to help you.

HTH

5

Hi Rowa,

do you have links to the articles, so that I understand better what you mean by "model reuse"? Thanks

6

Hi

the first article:

https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=88720

the second article:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S092054891630040X

they talked about reusing the existing process model not whole project

Thanks

 

7

Hi Miguel,

what is the meaning of "Community Edition only support a single workspace with a single project. "?

Is that mean I can reusing project one time or reuse one project?

and I want to know about reusing the existing process model rather than creating a new model,not the whole project

8

After playing around with the 2021.1 Studio, i found the option to switch between projects, in intellij or ecplise, you can edit more projects at the same time within a workspace. In community, you can only edit one project at a time, but you can switch between them if my knowledge is correct.

However if you create a process that you can use in another project, then you can export it as a bos archive, and then import it after switching projects. This is not the best solution probably, using git could be better. 

You can export a part or the whole project as a bos archive, and import a part or the whole archive in another project. 

I hope this can give you some idea what you can do with community regarding projects and processes.

regards

Zoltan

9

Hi,

I am thankful for your advice 

can I get links  about your ideas to reusing process models?

thanks

10

Hi,

is there any links for Call activities or BPMN Messages in documentation so I can  understand them?

thanks