Here’s a quick tutorial which explains how to retrieve the information from an external database, and display it as the initial value of a select box field in a form. You can find the process used as an example here.

Create a process with a human task and one form to interact with.



Add an entry pageflow form on the task Display data.

In this form, use a widget to add a select box field.

Click on the select box widget, then on the General tab and Data pane.  In the available value field, use this script:

This script will create a list to store the usernames that are returned. Then, it opens the SQL connection to query the table and add each name to the list. Finally, it returns the result.

At the execution, you’ll get this:

We had a pretty good 2011, both in the community and in the company.

We were even able to afford some new chairs…

for all the new…

…people who were hired at BonitaSoft last year. Lots of them. At this French meeting alone we had almost 50 folks.

How lucky for all of us that it was finally sunny in the French Alps, so we got to show the Parisians why the world headquarters of BonitaSoft is here! (Well, that’s what we like to think, anyway. And it was a beautiful sunny day. At least in the morning.)

In the afternoon, the scenery changed a bit.

(No tie!)

Some highlights (of the meeting, not the mountains):

R&D

We have seen the roadmap for the BOS 6.0 release, and we are afraid.

(No, not really – the improvement of the Bonita product continues to be a challenge and an impressive technical vision, but the R&D team is totally on it.)

Services

Watch for more community action in 2012. Also, more training, more consulting, and more community challenges. (There’s one on now – have you heard about it?)

Support

Support ticket smackdown. Happy BOS users make us happy too.

Marketing

Apparently marketing is full of good ideas. : ) The DOS attack we experienced last year against our corporate web site wasn’t a DOS attack after all, it was our Google Adwords campaign in full cry!

Sales

Our multi-lingual, multi-cultural sales team showed us some pretty impressive numbers for 2011 – and their plans to double them in 2012.

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We’re looking forward to new challenges and new accomplishments in 2012. Stay with us…and have fun with Bonita!

And in addition, our current calendar of training sessions are in English, French and Spanish.

Here’s a summary of what the BonitaSoft Services group is using to help Bonita Open Solution users get up to speed quickly.

For the business analyst: Process Modeling

This training is designed for a profile in project management: managers who need to work with IT to implement organizational processes; analysts and others who need a full view of Bonita Open Solution and its impact on their IT systems.

It familiarizes the business user with BOS as a process modeling tool, and how a Bonita project is developed end-to-end. The goal is be able to design a process and communicate about it to different process stakeholders using the process diagram.

This training is designed for the individual who:

• Needs to model processes, but may not personally be connecting models to external IS
• Wants to model processes that don’t need to be automated
• Wants to communicate effectively with process stakeholders
• Wants to communicate effectively with the IT team responsible for connecting to external IS and/or executing process models
• Wants to understand “the big picture” of how Bonita Open Solution works from model to execution, but will not be involved in the deep details of design and execution

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For the application developer: Process-Based Applications Development

This training is meant for the professional in Information Services: software developers, programmers, software engineers.

It follows how to develop a process in Bonita Open Solution, connect it to external information systems, and execute it.

It is designed for the IS professional who will:

• develop complete end-to-end processes
• connect models to external information systems
• automate processes
• be involved in the details of design and execution

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For integrators: Advanced BOS Integration

This training is designed for the developer or IT professional who will deploy Bonita Open Solution / processes developed in Bonita Open Solution in applications other than the BOS-provided web applications.

Generally, this training is appropriate for a profile in systems administration, with knowledge of / experience with network administration and distributed system architectures.

Its focus is on how to ensure that Bonita Open Solution interacts effectively with the rest of the user’s IT systems through BOS integration with external applications.

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For process and system administrators: System Administration

This training shows how to monitor and manage processes designed and deployed with Bonita Open Solution in various deployment architecture options, and how to deploy and manage processes throughout their life cycle.

It is designed for the system administrator who needs to:

• deploy processes designed in Bonita Open Solution into production
• configure end user access, rights and privileges
• manage processes as they are running, including data
• update and modify live processes
• implement BOS upgrades and migrate live processes
• manage full process life cycles (deployment, execution, update, archive)

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Do any of these sound useful to you?  Check our open enrollment schedule regularly.

]]> http://www.bonitasoft.org/blog/uncategorized/train-training-trained/feed/ 0 http://www.bonitasoft.org/blog/uncategorized/train-training-trained/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BonitaOpenSourceBpmCommunityBlog/~3/ENzpBHSpEbk/ http://www.bonitasoft.org/blog/video/how-do-i-loop-a-task-using-a-condition/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:57:55 +0000 nigel.gray http://www.bonitasoft.org/blog/?p=5011 A question often asked about tasks is: How do I loop a task using a condition?

Example
A practical example of this could be when a plan has to be validated by a certain number of Managers before being carried out.
We’ve shown this example in a  new video tutorial, now available in the online BonitaSoft Documentation.

How validation works
Each of the Managers will validate the plan in turn, by clicking on a submit button in a form displayed in Bonita User Experience.
When all the Managers (5 in the case of the video tutorial) have validated the plan, the maximum number of loops has been reached.
The 5th and last validation will end the loop, terminate the task and finish the validation of the plan.

Configure the task
Take a look at our video tutorial, How to loop a task or a call activity, where the above example is illustrated.
It shows how to configure a loop on a human task using a Boolean variable (True/false variable).
Simply set up a Boolean variable on a pool first, see Define a boolean variable, then apply the Boolean variable to a task. You can  set a maximum number of loops for the task.

More tutorial videos are available in the BonitaSoft Documentation video library.

Have fun with Bonita!

It’s the contest we’ve been talking about for a while now…it’s live and happening.

Pimp My Bonita.

More accurately, Pimp YOUR Bonita.

Share your most creative and innovative BPM use cases implementing Bonita Open Solution – win accolades, and prizes!

Grand prize is the winner’s choice of:

$3,000 (USD); or

a trip to Paris to visit BonitaSoft’s City of Light office; or

a trip to San Francisco to leave your ♥ at BonitaSoft’s offices there.

There are 6 categories to enter:

• Best Process Model
• Best BPMN2 Implementation
• Best Process-Driven Application
• Best Add-On or Connector
• Best Use of User Experience Portal
• Most Creative Use of Bonita Open Solution

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Each category finalist gets an autographed copy of

Bruce Silver’s new book, BPMN Methods and Style, and

a BonitaSoft t-shirt (but not this one.  And our lovely model does not come with it.)

To enter before March 15, 2012:

• Register as a member of the BonitaSoft open source community (if you have not already)
• Sign the BonitaSoft Contributor Agreement
• Fill in the form here

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Remember -  have fun with [Pimp my] Bonita!

For every feature documented, an accompanying tutorial is included.
Go visit Top tutorials on the BonitaSoft Documentation and see a selection of these tutorials.

Have fun with Bonita!

BonitaSoft will be present from Jan 16 and ready to demo Bonita Open Solution, answer questions, and chat with all comers about Bonita, BPM, and all things related.

We’ll be pimping* Pimp My Bonita.  The community got the first word, now we’re unveiling it far and wide.

If you happen to be in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA, stop by and say hello to Dwayne McDaniel and Haidar Hadi.  And if you’re there on Wednesday January 18, stop by and say hello to our “Special Guest Celebrity”, Bruce Silver.

Bruce will be there to discuss BPMN and will have on hand a few copies of his most recent book, BPMN Method and Style, 2nd edition. Some of them will go to lucky drawing winners, so be sure to leave us a business card.

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*Yes, yes, YES we know what this word means.  We prefer the Urban Dictionary definition.

So we thought you would like to see just what goes into creating a new video for a feature, a sort of behind the scenes peek into our process.
In this contribution, we have included a .bar file ‘How to create a video for the Bonita Documentation System’ which presents an overview of this process.

To see a result of how we apply this process, visit the Bonita Documentation System and take a look at our videos, for example: How to multi-instantiate a task.

See how useful a short and concise video tutorial can be when you need to understand how to use and configure a feature.

Here’s a quick reminder of what we are appreciative to you all for:

• 10,000 community members, who have added around 30,000 posts on almost 7000 topics. Among our community we have approximately:
  • 1,300 in the US
  • 1,100 in France
  • 700 in India
  • 500 in Spain
  • 500 in Brazil
  • 400 in Germany
  • 350 in the UK
• 1,000,000 downloads: what else can we say? Thank you for your continuing confidence in Bonita.

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Thanks to your translations much of BOS is available in many languages, including:

• Brazilian Portuguese
• Catalan
• Croatian
• Dutch
• Estonian
• German
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Serbian
• Spanish
• Turkish

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We are also proud to say that we now have more than 40 integrator partners in 20 countries. These partners are certified to deploy BPM projects with BonitaSoft technologies. Some of the more recent partnerships of 2011 include:

• Upcom Ltd, Greece
• Altran – France, France
• ELO Group, Brazil
• Tornado Solutions, Mexico
• I&T servizi Srl, Italy
• BTS Columbia, Columbia
• Ippon Technology, France

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This is a pretty good way to begin the new year. We look forward to bigger and better numbers with you in 2012, especially as we’re anticipating some remodeling work in the community pages as we do a bit of re-organizing.

And speaking of looking forward – check out the community contest Pimp my Bonita – a chance to win the admiration of all and valuable prizes!

This tutorial will be very helpful in the following cases:

• NoClassDefFoundError:  there are two different versions of the same class in your classpath.
• Integration with unknown huge products (not osgi-ed):  detect multiple libs with the same version, and so reduce memory footprint.

From here look at the attribute _war and you will find from which archive the class was loaded.



Do you have some special tips to use MAT?

Note: this was part of my EclipseCon Europe 2011 talk and one of my Eclipse Democamp Grenoble 2011 talk.