Seif Eddine Ghezala

We are so excited to announce a new alpha release of camunda-external-task-client-js, an Node.js module that makes it possible to handle your BPMN Service Tasks. This release is focused on making it more flexible to handle variables. It improves setting variables and brings up two major features: setting local variables support for Date & File typed variables The following example will illustrate these features and show how they can be used. Example 1. Setup first, make sure to have Camunda running download the following model and deploy it using the Camunda Modeler create an invoice.txt file with some data and place it in the same folder as the script install camunda-external-task-client-js from npm using: npm install -s camunda-external-task-client-js or: yarn...

We recently published the first alpha release of camunda-external-task-client-js, an NPM module that makes it possible to handle your BPMN Service Tasks in Node.js. Today, a new alpha release is ready, bringing up major features that revolve around easily exchanging process variables between Service Tasks and the Workflow Engine. The feature set includes: Accessing single/all variables Creating/Updating single or multiple variables Support for primitive (e.g. Integer) and complex variable types (e.g. JSON) Let’s walk through a basic example to showcase some of these features: Example 1. Running Camunda First, make sure to have Camunda running. 2. Deploying the Workflow Download the following model and deploy it using the Camunda Modeler. 3. Installing the NPM package Install camunda-external-task-client-js from npm using:...

We are so excited to announce what the team has been cooking for the past few weeks: camunda-external-task-client.js, a Node.js client for Camunda External Tasks! The main features set includes: Fetch & Lock Tasks Globally Task Completion Lock Time Manipulation Fetch & Lock Tasks Globally A detail about the Camunda Engine API worth pointing out is that it’s possible to fetch external tasks as a batch independently of their specific topics. The Client performs Fetch & Lock in batches, leading to significantly less requests and a superior performance compared to executing the same operation per topic. Furthermore, it offers to start/stop polling for available tasks and distributes them by topic. Each individual topic can be subscribed in order to complete...

The first alpha version of Camunda 7.9.0 is here and it is loaded with new features. The highlights are: Internationalization of Cockpit Full (Enterprise) Call Activity Drill Down in Cockpit Sortable and Persistent Table Columns in Cockpit and Admin Restriction of Diagram Statistics by Time Period in Cockpit Full (Enterprise) Manual User Operations in Cockpit Full (Enterprise) Transient variables Conditional Start Event Support for WildFly 11 40 Bug Fixes The complete release notes are available in Jira. List of known Issues. You can Download Camunda For Free or Run it with Docker.

How about a new release of Camunda BPM 7.8 to spice things up? Among the long list of new features in Camunda BPM 7.8-alpha4, the highlights are: Deletion of Process Definitions in Cockpit (EE) History Cleanup in Cockpit (EE) Batch Process Instance Restart (EE) Interval Configuration for Failed Jobs 11 Bug Fixes You can Download Camunda BPM 7.8 or Run it with Docker. To see a full list of the changes, please check out our Release Notes and the list of Known Issues. If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub.