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We are happy to announce, that Camunda BPM 7.14 (scheduled for Tuesday, October 13th, 2020) includes an all new frontend plugin system for Cockpit. It replaces the current AngularJS 1.8 based plugin system and enables you to extend Cockpit with domain-specific information written in the web-technologies of your choice. What are Plugins Webapp plugins are user extensions that provide custom functionality to Cockpit, Tasklist, and Admin, which Camunda does not provide out of the box. It allows you to embed domain-specific information into Camunda tooling without switching applications. The new plugin system allows you to use the Javascript framework you are most familiar with, whether it be React, Angular, or just plain Javascript. Cockpit is the first webapp to receive...

Camunda’s Tasklist is excellent when you have user tasks and don’t want to use or build a custom solution. Embedded Forms offer great flexibility when it comes to designing user interfaces. In recent years, React became one of the most popular libraries for building user interfaces. In this blog post, I will show you how to use React forms together with Tasklist.

Camunda’s flexible architecture allows users to combine the workflow engine with custom user interfaces. The Camunda BPM Platform itself comes with a default Tasklist. But what happens if we don’t like the approach or the technology used behind the default Camunda Tasklist? How can we build our own Tasklist that leverages Front-End frameworks and technologies that we have chosen as a user rather than Camunda? Throughout this blogpost I will showcase how different Front-End frameworks can be used together with Camunda BPM to build a custom Tasklist. The Showcase Imagine we want to implement a very simple workflow like the following one: Implementing the automated tasks of this workflow is pretty straightforward using the Camunda workflow engine.Today let’s have a...