Bonita BPM 7 - Custom Pages & Applications

Creating a Living Application in Bonita

Overview: This guide walks through the process of building a Bonita living application to display business data and interact with processes.

Key Steps

• Creating a New Page: Using the UI Designer to create a page for listing business data (Expense Reports).
• Fetching Data via REST API:
  • Using the BDM REST API to retrieve stored business data.
  • Structuring API queries with pagination parameters.
• Configuring Table Headers and Data Binding:
  • Defining column headers based on BDM attributes.
  • Binding retrieved data to table columns using Angular filters for formatting.
• Running a Process to Generate Data: Executing an instance of the expense report process to populate the database.
• Previewing and Exporting the Page: Verifying data display and exporting the UI page for deployment.
• Deploying the Page: Uploading the exported ZIP file to the Bonita Portal.
• Creating a Bonita Application:
  • Defining a new application in the portal.
  • Setting up navigation and assigning the custom page as the homepage.
• Enhancing the Application:
  • Enabling row selection to display detailed expense report information.
  • Using containers to conditionally display data.
  • Fetching additional user details via an API call.
  • Displaying associated expense report lines with proper formatting.
• Live Updating the Application: Redeploying the page without downtime.