We recently pushed many cool new features and bug fixes on Business Central added by Foundation Team. Those features are available at the 7.43.0 release. This post will do a quick overview of those. I hope you guys enjoy it! Dashbuilder Runtimes Since some release ago, we have introduced a new standalone application called Dashbuilder Runtimes. ThisRead more →
We recently pushed many cool new features and bug fixes on Business Central added by Foundation Team. Those features are available at the 7.43.0 release.
This post will do a quick overview of those. I hope you guys enjoy it!
Dashbuilder Runtimes
Since some release ago, we have introduced a new standalone application called Dashbuilder Runtimes. This new feature is a lightweight application able to run Business Automation dashboards created on Business Central in a containerized fashion, allowing us to cover many business automation use cases.
Soon we will publish a detailed introduction for Dashbuilder Runtimes.
Dashbuilder Runtime Embedded
On the 7.40.0 release, we improved the embedded capabilities of Dashbuilder Runtime, allowing users to embed a specific dashboard from an instance of Dashbuilder runtime on their web apps.
Every dashboard in the Dashbuilder runtime can be accessed in embedded mode and integrated directly on your application. See an example of this integration in a simple HTML page:
We also provided a new rest API that allows you to create a dashboard and query the dashboards and their pages on my Dashbuilder runtime instance.
It is possible to wrap the REST calls using a Javascript library published in npm: dashbuilder-js/api. With this API, you can use dashboards directly in your application. See examples in dashbuilder-js repository.
Soon we will publish a detailed post for Dashbuilder Runtime Embedded.
Dashbuilder Runtime Multi Dashboards Support
On the 7.42 release, we introduced a new feature on Dashbuilder Runtimes that allows users to import multiple dashboards on the same runtime instance.
The multi-mode is turned off by default. To turn it on, you must set the system property dashbuilder.runtime.multi as true.
Soon we will publish a detailed post for Dashbuilder Runtime Multi Dashboards support.
Dashbuilder External Components
How do I write my external component on Dashbuilder? In Business Central 7.43, we introduced a new way of creating your components in JavaScript and integrating them on dashboards.
External components are custom Dashbuilder page parts that users can develop to consume datasets from Business Central and display data any way users want. On community, we already have a lot of cool new external components, including a Heatmap for process and support for beautiful Victoria charts.
Soon we will publish a detailed post for Dashbuilder External Components support.
Other bug fixes and improvements:
We also fixed several bugs and made some performance improvements on Business central:
RHPAM-2808 : Making LRU cache configurable to avoid large memory retention
RHPAM-2957 : Business central doesn’t remember last used branch on logout
RHPAM-2737 : Testing on Project level fails if project was cloned via git/clone REST API removed and cloned again
RHPAM-2946 : Error when renaming an asset with pending changes
RHPAM-3134 : UI issue (in business-central) when more than one kie-server (with different ID) is connected.
RHDM-1354 : NPE creating a project using Decision Central REST API and githook configured
RHPAM-3119 : [Data Modeler] Unsaved changes dialog appears after rename
RHDM-1378 : Issue re-importing a repository initially created by importing an empty repository in Business Central
RHPAM-3117 : Document upload doesn’t work on Windows
Thank you to everyone involved!
I would like to thank everyone involved with this release, from the excellent Foundation Team Engineers to the lifesavers QEs and all the UX people that help us make our work look fantastic!
We just launched a fresh new Kogito Tooling release! 🎉 On 0.6.1 release, we made a lot of improvements and bug fixes. This post will do a quick overview of those. I hope you enjoy it! Kogito Tooling CI Improvements Since the beginning of the project, we have been using GitHub Actions to build kogito tooling repositories,Read more →
We just launched a fresh new Kogito Tooling release! 🎉
On 0.6.1 release, we made a lot of improvements and bug fixes. This post will do a quick overview of those. I hope you enjoy it!
Kogito Tooling CI Improvements
Since the beginning of the project, we have been using GitHub Actions to build kogito tooling repositories, but last week we added three significant improvements for our CI/CD on this release.
Daily builds of our kogito tooling
Some days ago, we started doing an automatic daily release of the kogito tooling. The daily build of the Business Modeler can be accessed on this link and other artifacts (VS Code, Desktop, Hub, and Chrome Extension) can be downloaded in the latest “Publish daily dev version” job. This is a nice feature to try the latest master features of kogito tooling! 🚀
Business Modeler build for each PR
Also, to improve tests and code review processes, now for each PR on kogito-tooling instead of just generating the build artifacts, we are also providing a live version of Business Modeler.
To access the Business Modeler for a job fired by a PR in kogito-tooling, you can use https://kiegroup.github.io/kogito-online-ci/pull/<PR_NUMBER>
To access the Business Modeler for a job fired by a comment in the kogito-tooling issue, you can use https://kiegroup.github.io/kogito-online-ci/comment/<COMMENT_ID>
Build RHPAM Editors on kogito tooling actions
The BPMN, DMN, and Scesim editors used on Kogito are based on RHPAM editors that live on kie-wb-common and drools-wb Java-based repositories.
Another significant improvement that we did on this release is kogito-tooling GitHub Actions to do a full build on RHPAM editors and generate an integrated artifact (kogito tooling + editors from Java repositories).
Now, it’s just a matter of the author of a PR in kogito-tooling using a branch with the same name in his/her fork that contains changes in any editor (BPMN, DMN, or SceSim). As soon this happens, the “Pull Request CI — Full Downstream” job will run and produce a build of the VS Code extension, Business Modeler, Chrome Extension, and Desktop with the modified editors for faster testing.
But how should I build kogito tooling, if my editor change doesn’t affect the kogito tooling repository? Go to the pinned issue on the kogito-tooling repo and create a new comment following the format “Build: {github-username}/{branch-name}”.
In my opinion, those three improvements are a huge step forward for us. First, they will speed up a lot of our code review process and build, and, most important, it’s a big step forward in the path to continuous delivery of our lovely Business Modeler.
Kogito Tooling i18n
We’re happy to announce that Kogito Tooling is ready to be internationalized! This means that it will be possible to change the locale and access the Kogito Tooling Channels’ translations.
We developed an i18n type-safe library with React usability in mind to enable this new feature, which allows simple and easy integration with an already existing project. See the full details on this blog post.
Page Support on OmniChannel Architecture
Since its inception, OmniChannel allowed us to run the same editor code in multiple channels without changing the codebase. Now we enhance this architecture also to support Pages and Components.
This new architectural component will enable many new use cases, as an example showing runtime screens, dashboards, etc. Stay tuned that soon we will launch a blog post and some examples of how to use it.
Auto start property for ad-hoc subprocess
We also added add “Auto Start” property to Adhoc sub-process properties panel, which is currently supported by the Kogito runtime via metadata.
Fixed issues and improvements
We also made a lot of refactorings and improvements, especially to allow our internal APIs’ extendability.
[KOGITO-2496] — Review exports on microeditor-envelope/index.ts
[KOGITO-2833] — Remove Enzyme as snapshot serializer
I would like to thank everyone involved with this release from the awesome KIE Tooling Engineers to the lifesavers QEs and the UX people that help us look awesome!
Some days ago, Alex Porcelli shared a great demo of Business Automation tooling working inside GitHub Codespaces. Github Codespaces is still on early access, but while you wait for it, the good news is that you can use the same BPMN and DMN extensions inside Visual Studio Code Online. Here is how to setup: Step 1:Read more →
Some days ago, Alex Porcelli shared a great demo of Business Automation tooling working inside GitHub Codespaces.
Github Codespaces is still on early access, but while you wait for it, the good news is that you can use the same BPMN and DMN extensions inside Visual Studio Code Online. Here is how to setup:
Step 1: Create a Visual Studio Codespaces
With an Azure account and subscription (there is a free tier, so can you give it a try), go to Visual Studio Code online, and create a Codespace.
Step 2: Install Kogito Bundle extension
Click on the Extensions menu, search for Kogito, and install it (VS Code will ask for a reload). Now your BPMN and DMN extensions are installed on your online environment.
Now you can create and edit any .bpmn .dmn or .scesim file with our graphical tooling!
Step 3: Enjoy BPMN and DMN extensions on VS Code Online
And that’s it :). Now you can enjoy editing your Business Automation assets in a 100% online environment.
As this work is still on ‘alpha’ stage and it’s running inside a container, the ‘first loading’ of the editor takes some seconds on a fresh install, but after that, everything runs smoothly.
Recently, we had a lot of cool new features on Kogito Tooling added by Foundation Team. Those features are distributed on Kogito Tooling latest releases! This post will do a quick overview of those. I hope you guys enjoy it! Visual Code Store Extension Release Last month, the VS Code team released its custom editor asRead more →
Recently, we had a lot of cool new features on Kogito Tooling added by Foundation Team. Those features are distributed on Kogito Tooling latest releases!
This post will do a quick overview of those. I hope you guys enjoy it!
Visual Code Store Extension Release
Last month, the VS Code team released its custom editor as an official API, and we were finally able to publish our editors on the VS Code Store.
We have now four published artifacts on the store:
Kogito Bundle: an extension that groups all our extensions for Kogito.
At this point, the bundles are just pointers to our extensions, this means that every time that you download our bundle, in fact, you are also downloading DMN and BPMN editors extensions. In the future, this bundle could potentially contain improved features, stay tuned! See the full post for details.
Business Modeler Desktop Preview
We released a new import piece of our tool belt, the Business Modeler Desktop. This modeler is a multi-platform standalone application that enables you to quickly create and edit DMN and BPMN assets on your Desktop. See the full blog post for details.
Business Modeler Hub Preview
We also released a new piece of our tooling strategy, the Business Modeler Hub Preview. A single place where you are just one click away from all our tooling channels. See the full blog post for details.
Business Modeler Preview Enhancements
We introduced some awesome UX tweaks on our Business Modeler and we expect it will improve even more your experience using it. See the full blog post for details.
Enhanced Keyboard Shortcuts On Kogito Tooling
We released a new Keyboard Shortcuts API. It gives editors the power to add custom reusable keyboard shortcuts that work in all channels! For the existing editors — BPMN, DMN and SceSim — we maintained the same mapping, but we did some under-the-hood enhancements that will make the experience even better. See the full blog post for details.
Exporting diagrams as GitHub gists
Users can now export their DMN and BPMN diagrams as GitHub gists on the Business Modeler. See the full blog post for details.
Other bug fixes and improvements:
We also fixed several bugs and did some performance improvements:
I want to thank everyone involved with this release from the awesome KIE Tooling Engineers to the lifesavers QEs and the UX people that help us look awesome!
Recently, we pushed new features on Business Central added by Foundation Team. Those features are available soon at 7.39 release. This post will do a quick overview of those. I hope you guys enjoy it! Improvements on Business-Central REST API adding the groups/roles operations available in the UI We included in our REST API most of theRead more →
Recently, we pushed new features on Business Central added by Foundation Team. Those features are available soon at 7.39 release. This post will do a quick overview of those. I hope you guys enjoy it!
Improvements on Business-Central REST API adding the groups/roles operations available in the UI
We included in our REST API most of the groups and roles operations available in the Business Central UI, including:
Groups
New group;
Delete group;
List groups;
Update group permissions;
Roles
List roles;
Update roles permissions
See more details on the full blog post.
Decoupling BC File System from JGIT
In the last few months, in order to remove explicit jGit dependencies in Business Central code, we refactored Business Central File allowing users to implement new file system providers.
It is true that we still depend on jGit on many Business Central features (like Collaboration), but this change allowed us to use Kubernetes ConfigMaps to store basic information just using our Java Nio2 library.
This enables Business Central Monitoring to use Kubernetes based cloud providers as a file system, storing all Monitoring information in ConfigMaps without relying on persistent volumes.
Description when creating new Space using Business Central
Now, when you create a new space in Business Central Central via UI or REST API, it’s possible to define not only Space name but also its description.
Other bug fixes and improvements:
We also fixed several bugs and did some performance improvements on Business central:
AF-2434 Prevent system repositories from receiving the default post-commit hook
RHPAM-2718 Dropdown with branches is missing in the branch management
RHPAM-2748 Update locale selection drop-down to include only the supported languages for RHDM and RHPAM
RHPAM-2708 RHPAM 7.x Business Central latency correlated with the number of groups memberships
AF-2446 Dashbuilder Map Displayer support latitude, longitude
AF-2514 Execution Server UI breaks if connected to a KIE Server that has a Container deployed that its jar is not on BC internal Maven repo
RHPAM-2674 Exception thrown when a test scenario containing a tag is renamed without saving
AF-2432 Restoring an old asset version doesn’t work outside the master branch
Thank you to everyone involved!
I would like to thank everyone involved with this release, from the awesome Foundation Team Engineers to the lifesavers QEs and all the UX people that help us make our work look awesome!
Last month, our team released a new import piece of our tool belt, the Business Modeler Desktop. This modeler is a multi-platform standalone application that enables you to quickly create and edit DMN and BPMN assets on your Desktop. This post will do a quick overview of this cool new tool. I hope you guys enjoy it!Read more →
Last month, our team released a new import piece of our tool belt, the Business Modeler Desktop. This modeler is a multi-platform standalone application that enables you to quickly create and edit DMN and BPMN assets on your Desktop.
This post will do a quick overview of this cool new tool. I hope you guys enjoy it!
DMN and BPMN Modeler
From the initial screen, you will be able to create new BPMN workflows and DMN Decision Models or use our samples as a starting point to your models!
We also provide a quick way to filter your recent files and see previews of your diagrams.
Importing code to Business Modeler
Another cool feature of Business Modeler is the ability to import BPMN or DMN models via URL. For instance, you can import this model from our examples:
Remember to make sure that your models on the URL are text content. If you are using Github, you need to provide the raw link of the desired model. The same applies to Dropbox Links (example).
Learn More
If you are new to BPMN or DMN or maybe want to become an expert, you can go to our ‘Learn More’ section and check useful links for our tutorials, highlighting our “Learn DMN in 15 minutes” web site.
Thank you to everyone involved!
I want to thank everyone involved with this release from the awesome KIE Tooling Team Engineers to the lifesavers QEs and the UX people that help us look awesome!
Last month, we released a new piece of our tooling strategy, the Business Modeler Hub Preview. A single place where you are just one click away from all our tooling channels. The Hub is available on all platforms: Linux, Windows, and macOS. You can also download it via the Business Modeler website. Business Modeler Hub Preview Currently,Read more →
Last month, we released a new piece of our tooling strategy, the Business Modeler Hub Preview. A single place where you are just one click away from all our tooling channels.
The Hub is available on all platforms: Linux, Windows, and macOS. You can also download it via the Business Modeler website.
Business Modeler Hub Preview
Currently, Business Modeler Hub Preview aggregates four tools for your easy access:
Kogito VS Code extension: where you can automatically install our extension on VS Code and launch it with only two clicks;
Kogito GitHub extension for Chrome: where you can install the Kogito extension to an existing version of Chrome;
Business Modeler Desktop Preview: where you can launch the desktop version of Business Modeler Preview;
Business Modeler Preview: where you can quickly go to the Online Modeler Preview site.
Thank you to everyone involved!
I want to thank everyone involved with this new tool, from the KIE Tooling Team Engineers to the lifesavers QEs and the UX people that help us look awesome!
What is new on Business Central, from Foundation Team perspective — March 2020 Recently, we pushed a lot of cool new features on Business Central added by Foundation Team. Those features are available soon at 7.34 release. This post will do a quick overview of those. I hope you guys enjoy it! Branch support on REST APIs Users can leverage branchRead more →
What is new on Business Central, from Foundation Team perspective — March 2020
Recently, we pushed a lot of cool new features on Business Central added by Foundation Team. Those features are available soon at 7.34 release.
This post will do a quick overview of those. I hope you guys enjoy it!
Branch support on REST APIs
Users can leverage branch support on the REST API.
We also fixed several bugs and improved Business Central on some specific scenarios:
JBPM-8826 — Forms — 10 Listeners get added each time a form is rendered
AF-2232 IllegalStateException displayed briefly in the UI when logging out from business-central
AF-2397 — Deletion of group from Business Central UI does not remove group from the security-policy.properties file
AF-2396 — Rest request to list spaces fails when RHPAM is integrated with RHSSO using SAML protocol
JBPM-8851— Rename an asset change the quantity of assets returned by a search
AF-2424 Issue with the group permissions for the “Pages”
AF-2341 — Not able to restore files if the file uses a tag
AF-2395 -Unexpected error on Project level while launching test on cloned via REST project
AF-1395 — The new Form modeler editor is not locked when it is edited
AF-574 — [Layout editor] Components disappear after moving
AF-903 — [Settings] Made changes are no longer displayed after saving
AF-2404 — Package dropdown button is not visible (slowly appears) when creating an asset
Thank you to everyone involved!
I would like to thank everyone involved with this release, from the awesome Foundation Team Engineers, to the lifesavers QEs and all the UX people that help us make our work look awesome!
We are happy to announce a fresh Kogito Tooling release! On this release, we did a lot of improvements and bug fixes. We progressed a lot on the DMN/BPMN Editors, delivered a brand new UX for the Online Editor and also improved a lot the ‘native’ experience of VSCode. Another important milestone achieved is the first experimentalRead more →
We are happy to announce a fresh Kogito Tooling release!
On this release, we did a lot of improvements and bug fixes. We progressed a lot on the DMN/BPMN Editors, delivered a brand new UX for the Online Editor and also improved a lot the ‘native’ experience of VSCode.
Another important milestone achieved is the first experimental release of our extension with the of the new VSCode Custom webview proposed API. In order to give it a try, you will need to download the latest version of VSCode (1.43.0), install the specific extension (vscode_extension_kogito_kie_editors_0.2.8-new-webview-api-release.vsix) and run it with the following command:
In case you don’t want to run VSCode in proposed API mode, for now, we are still packing vscode_extension_kogito_kie_editors_0.2.8.vsix. Included on this release:
DMN Editor Improvements/Bug Fixes
KOGITO-964: Run on VSCode all DMN demos published on Kogito examples
What a great year! I’m really proud of everything that our team delivered in 2019. Without a shadow of a doubt, this was the most exciting year of our team. Our team’s primary focus was on Business Central and Kogito Tooling. First of all, I would like to congrats all the engineering team for the excellentRead more →
What a great year! I’m really proud of everything that our team delivered in 2019. Without a shadow of a doubt, this was the most exciting year of our team. Our team’s primary focus was on Business Central and Kogito Tooling.
First of all, I would like to congrats all the engineering team for the excellent work, including Adriel 🇦🇷, Paulo 🇧🇷, Tiago 🇧🇷, Pere 🇪🇸, William 🇧🇷, Gabriel 🇧🇷, Guilherme 🇧🇷, Rishiraj 🇮🇳 , and Abhishek🇮🇳, with all the support from our manager David 🇪🇸, our Product Owner Myriam 🇲🇽 and our architect Alex 🇧🇷.
All this work is only possible because we collaborate with an impressive QE Team (Tomas 🇨🇿, Barbora 🇸🇰, Dominik 🇸🇰, and Jakub 🇨🇿), and an awesome UXD Team (Liz 🇺🇸, Sarah 🇺🇸, Kyle 🇺🇸 , Amy 🇺🇸 , SJClark🇺🇸 and Brian 🇺🇸). A huge thanks to everyone involved with foundation work.
Let’s do a retrospective of what our team delivered in 2019 on two major areas: Business Central and Kogito Tooling. I hope you guys enjoy it!
Kogito Tooling
Kogito, the newest project from the KIE group, is cloud-native business automation for building intelligent applications, backed by battle-tested capabilities.
Kogito is designed from the ground up to run at scale on the cloud. By taking advantage of the latest technologies (Quarkus, Knative, etc.), you get amazingly fast boot times and instant scaling on orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
The project also goes beyond technology, and it also provides a focus on the domain. It replaces traditional generic API by a domain-based API, avoiding unnecessary abstraction leaks of the underline tools used.
Kogito focuses on developers, and this is where the BPMN Extension for VSCode plays an important role. Additional to the extension, Kogito also provides:
Tooling embeddable wherever you need it
Code generation taking care of 80% of the work;
Flexibility to customize, only use what you need;
Simplified local development with live reload.
To learn more about Kogito, please visit the kogito.kie.org website.
In the second semester of 2019, our team was responsible for building the infrastructure of the kogito tooling.
We had a remarkable year for the kogito tooling! I’m proud of the excellent work and innovation that we were able to accomplish on this initiative. Let’s take a look:
BPMN/DMN VSCode Extension
This release in September marked the first piece of the new tooling infrastructure for the Kie Group Team. With VSCode support, our goal was to streamline the dev workflow of our platform, making it easy for developers to create BPMN diagrams and push them straight to kogito runtimes.
In October, we released our GitHub Chrome Extension. With this new tool, users are able not just to edit but also visualize DMN/BPMN diagrams — which is especially cool on Pull Request reviews.
See the original blog post, and the posts describing the cool improvements [1] [2] that we launched in December:
The Kogito Online Editor provides a simple way to edit DMN and BPMN files directly on your browser. You can create a file from scratch or upload an existing one from your device.
Kogito Tooling Resource Content API
In December, we also launched Resource Content API, a common API able to fetch content across different Channels(VSCode/Chrome/Online), an example of this need is the DMN Editor that imports another DMN model. Another example is a Runtime Process Admin UI that needs access to the Process Definition (the content of a BPMN file). See the full blog post for details.
That is it for the Kogito Tooling side! Let’s take a look at what we achieved on Business Central?
Business Central
KIE (Knowledge Is Everything) is an umbrella brand offering a complete portfolio of solutions for business automation. It contains a group of related projects, including Drools (business rule management system), jBPM (a flexible Business Process Management Suite), and OptaPlanner (constraint solver).
The web tooling to interface and integrate with those projects is called Business Central: a web UI to author, manage and track business rules and processes.
Let’s take a look at what our team delivered in this area.
High Availability
Some weeks ago, KIE Foundation Team achieved a significant milestone: Build a cloud friendly-production-ready HA infrastructure for jBPM, Drools, and Optaplanner tooling (Business Central).
This journey, targeting a fail safe infrastructure of Business Central, required a refactoring and redesign of some pieces of our codebase, with significant changes on the filesystem, index engine, distribution of events, and on Business Central UI. Still, in the end, we are delighted with the result, seeing Business Central running smoothly on a clustered environment (especially on OpenShift). Take a look at the full blog post.
Streamline the Dev Workflow on Business Central
Based on feedback from our community, one of our main goals in BC this year was to enhance the developer workflow for rules/BPM. In that area we delivered:
Git Hooks Samples
Some cool examples to make it easier for you to automate git workflows via git hooks. You should take it a look.
Git Hooks Execution Feedback Messages
Based on your feedback on our git hooks integration, we included a way to customize your messages on script execution.
Business Central now provides a mechanism to enable users getting feedback about the git hooks execution using customized messages based on the hook exit code.
SSH Keystore
To provide better automation on our platform, we delivered in Business Central an SSH Keystore. This means that users can store their public keys inside the workbench and use them to authenticate their automation scripts via ssh keys.
Contributors on Business Central
We’ve created three roles integrated directly into spaces and projects (Contributor/Admin/Owner). These roles allow you to fine-tune the permissions on your spaces and projects, and soon this will deprecate Security Permissions for spaces and projects. Take a look at the full blog post.
Role-Based Access Control for Branches
Built upon Contributors feature, we are proud to release role-based access branches on Business Central.
With this new feature, we provided a new UI on project settings to allow users to restrict the access for a target branch for a specific collaborator type. This is pretty useful for instance when you want to freeze a release branch for some roles. Take a look at the demo:
Import specific branches on Business Central
Sometimes you don’t want to import all the branches from your repo. We made it possible to import just some specific branches from your repo.
Speed up the Developer Workflow
As I already mentioned, one of our goals was to enhance the developer workflow for rules/BPM. And we included on BC two things that we believe will be game-changers for those developers who work with Business Central on a daily basis.
The first feature was the ‘Build and Install’ button on authoring. This allows users to do a build on their projects without the need for a deploy.
The second valuable addition was that we created two new Decision/Process Server Modes. DEVELOPMENT (the new default) and PRODUCTION that (Blocks “-SNAPSHOT” deployment).
These changes will allow users to quickly build, deploy our projects, making it easier (and saving many clicks) to test their changes on Kie Server while we can preserve the production consistency. First, let’s take a look at our production mode.
Workspace collaboration via change requests
We also included a cool new feature targeting business central collaboration: Change Requests support between Business Central branches.
This new workflow allows users to submit their changes for approval from one branch to another, as well as the ability to review the changes prior to the integration.
See details about this feature on this post and a sneak peek on this video:
Form modeler support for class models from external dependencies
We created a way to allow users to load models from external dependencies on forms. This allows us to generate forms for processes that use classes from external dependencies (not created on the same project with Data Modeler but that are added as dependencies of the project).
Upload of multiple documents for human task forms
We created in the forms designer a widget called “Document Collection”. It enables you to upload multiple documents to a process or task form. You can also use the “Document Collection” widget for process or task forms that have a variable with the type `org.jbpm.document.DocumentCollection`. Additionally, it also supports the legacy type `org.jbpm.document.Documents`.
Importing and exporting Dashbuilder data
On Business Central 7.25 (August) 7.25 we added a feature that allows users to import and export all data related to Dashbuilder: Datasets, Perspectives, and Navigation.
CSS Editor on Form Builder
We also created a cool new CSS Editor on our Form Builder. Take a look on your demo:
React components in Red Hat Business Central
We also created a way to write Business Central components based on React. Take a look at the full blog post.
Business Central Brand Consolidation
To consolidate and promote better our technology stack, since 7.18 version we consolidated and rebranded the workbenches to a single distribution called to Business Central (accessible via /business-central). Take a look at this post to do a deep dive on this migration.
Offline Charts
The Dashbuilder default chart implementation was replaced from Google Charts to C3.js. The main reason behind this move is to allow our users to use Business Central in an offline environment (Google Charts requires internet connection).
UX improvements
With the excellent collaboration from the UX team, we are able to improve a lot of Business Central UX. Some highlights:
AF-2176 — Error messages need to be able to be copied
In the past, error messages often overrun the size of the field on the bottom of the web page. The only way to read them was hovering over the field and there was no way to copy the text of a message. We fixed this formatting the error message and also adding a copy button that copies all the errors on CSV format.
AF-2244 — UX support/guidance after new deployment
After deploying a new project, the user is now able to ‘View deployment details’ with a useful link.
AF-2151 — Modify asset Save button behavior and presentation
Instead of asking the user every time to add a comment to the file commit on the Save action, we now provide a split button with the primary (default) option being simply Save the file, with no dialog presented before saving — streamlining the dev workflow.
If the user wants to comment on the save operation, he/she can still rely on our new option “Save with comments”, that will be presented with a dialog asking for the file save the comment.
AF-2214 — User confirmation when closing the workbench with unsaved stuff
If the user had unsaved changes and closed the browser, then they would lose all changes without being warned about it. Thus, as a last resort, after this PR the browser will ask the user for confirmation when closing the tab, closing the browser or refreshing the page. (Currently, this functionality is only supported on Google Chrome).
AF-2215 — When you add or remove a field from the form, it scrolls up.
This fixes the issue that every time that you added or removed a field from the forms, it would scroll to the top. Now we keep the form at the same position after every edit.
AF-2216 If I shutdown the server, the Web UI just spins and spins w/o an error message
After this PR, if the server is shutdown, we show an appropriated pop up saying that the server is being shut down, instead of a generic error message.
AF-2177 — Add Project button should also allow importing
If the URL has leading or trailing spaces when importing a git project, the import fails. Field validation should handle this automatically for the user.
Improvement in generic error dialogues
We added a bunch of new features to improve generic error dialogues in business central. See a full blog post about it.
Thank you to everyone involved!
I would like to thank everyone involved in this remarkable year, from the awesome Foundation Team Engineers, to the lifesavers QEs, Docs, and to all the UX people that help us make our work look fantastic!
