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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.
• RHPAM-2865 : Wrong created date on asset list
• 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!

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:

At Red Hat Store:

• DMN Editor — containing DMN and SceSim;
• BPMN Editor;
• Red Hat Business Automation Bundle: an extension that groups all our extensions;

At KIE 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:

Chrome Extension

KOGITO-1676 — Chrome Extension loads editors twice

KOGITO-1491 — Sometimes editor is not loaded (Chrome extension)

KOGITO-1725 — Multiple Open in external editor links are created when the “back” button is clicked

KOGITO-1726 — Exit fullscreen on chrome extension has a different style than on the online modeler

KOGITO-2281 — Fix Chrome Extension Permissions

KOGITO-2409 — Change the name and add an icon to the chrome extension

KOGITO-2270 Update the Chrome Extension Tutorial

Business Modeler Preview

KOGITO-1556 — DMN online editor can not be used properly in full-screen mode

KOGITO-1782 — Maximize and Minimize causes two toolbars

KOGITO-2447 — Online editor is not reflecting the URL call

KOGITO-2354 — Home page of Business Modeler Preview Online is with wrong home layout

KOGITO-1392 CSS tweaks

Business Modeler Desktop Preview

KOGITO-1252 — Examples are not loaded correctly by desktop app

Business Modeler Hub Preview

KOGITO-1761 — Improve error message when installing VS Code extension in a previous version of VS Code

KOGITO-2203 Non visible kebab menu

KOGITO-1918 File doesn’t save properly after tried to open an invalid one

KOGITO-1788 Desktop sort recently opened files

KOGITO-1791 CSS tweaks

VSCode Improvements

KOGITO-2385 Adapt to new VSCode API 1.46.0

KOGITO-2139 [VSCode] “Open with…” on explorer does not work

KOGITO-1777 VSCode Store Extension Release

KOGITO-1802 Create new VSCode Extensions Distributions

KOGITO-1778 — Adapt to new VSCode API (1.44.0)

KOGITO-1479 — Upgrade Kogito VSCode extension to the final API

KOGITO-1389 — “Open to the side” not working with the newest VSCode extension (new API)

KOGITO-1491 — Sometimes editor is not loaded (Chrome extension)

KOGITO-1863 — Adapt to new VSCode API 1.45.0

KOGITO-1837 — Expose viewType and getPreviewCommandId on vscode-extension index.ts

KOGITO-1970 — Implement Undo/Redo

KOGITO-1971 — Implement SaveAs

KOGITO-1972 — Implement Revert

KOGITO-1973 — Implement async Save

KOGITO-1974 — Implement Backup

KOGITO-1801 — Dirty state of editor on consequently save operation

KOGITO-1835 — State Control API stop working on VSCode 1.44.x

KOGITO-1034 VSCode standard keyboard shortcuts don’t work while extension is enabled

KOGITO-1748 VSCode editor — Package property is empty when the process is created

KOGITO-2128 Cannot open a diagram on a new VsCode window

KOGITO-2343 Shortcuts are always active for nodes (conflict)

Business Modeler Preview

KOGITO-1461 — BPMN2 Logo doesn’t show correctly

KOGITO-1320 — Prevent editors from opening with an unsupported file

KOGITO-1668 — Fix drag and drop CSS and upload button validation

KOGITO-859 — Open file URL using Chrome Extension when it has CORS disabled

Infrastructure

KOGITO-1436 — Remove double setContent call

KOGITO-927 Kogito tooling CI should also build on windows

KOGITO-1349 Dev Tools — Update Patternfly to current version Editor Improvements

KOGITO-1426 Re-enable Resource Content API

Thank you to everyone involved!

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!

Business Modeler Desktop Preview Released was originally published in kie-tooling on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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.

See more details on the full blog post.

Maven archetype support

Users can create projects based on templates.

See more details on the full blog post.

Create projects from empty repositories

Users can import an empty repository from a git provider service

See more details on the full blog post.

Squash Commits on a Change request

Users can choose to squash commits when merging a change request

See more details on the full blog post.

Other bug fixes and improvements:

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!