Launching Activiti 6 June 10, Paris

Joram Barrez & Tijs Rademakers

Activiti Leads, Alfresco

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Why we badly needed a new UI

Main reasons for the new UI •  New app concept

•  New DnD form builder

•  Vaadin 6 is not up-to-date anymore

•  And …… the current UI sucks

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Introduction to the new UI

New UI Summary

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•  Apps, process and form builder •  Task and form UI •  Simple identity management •  Process state diagram •  Angular JS application •  Spring MVC REST layer on Activiti

Engine

BPMN editor (not much changed here)

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New form editor

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New form editor (2)

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•  Drag and drop form editor •  Support for most common form field types •  Label, id, required and placeholder

configuration

New form editor (3)

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•  Outcome configuration •  Default button is ‘complete’

App editor

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•  Create app definition •  Include process models •  Choose icon + theme color

What’s an app?

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•  Grouping of process definitions •  Name, description, icon + theme color •  JSON definition •  Can be exported (zip) •  Can be imported (zip)

Publishing an app

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•  Generate BPMN XML •  Deploy to Activiti Engine and store app and forms in runtime tables

Starting a process with a start form

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•  Form renderer including required field validation

A completed form can be viewed afterwards

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•  Submitted values are stored in a separate table

Demo!

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Database model

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•  For the app we’ve added additional tables (not needed by the Engine) •  Liquibase script for version management, Hibernate for data access •  Compatible with Activiti Enterprise

Application layering and frameworks

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•  Angular JS for frontend •  Spring MVC for REST layer •  Hibernate JPA for persistence •  Spring security •  Liquibase for database model versioning

Next steps

Get it on Github!

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•  Almost ready with cleaning up the code •  We’ll do a beta version release together with the Activiti 6 Engine

Update the user guide

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•  Update the documentation of the UI

Gather feedback and act upon it

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•  Gather feedback with the beta builds •  Make changes accordingly

Questions?

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