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27 mars 2018
Camunda Node.js External Task Client 0.1.1 Released
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:…
23 mars 2018
Camunda External Task Client (Java) 0.1.0-alpha1 Released
We are excited to release the first alpha of the Camunda External Task Client (Java). A Workflow Engine typically calls Service Tasks actively. The Java client allows to break with this principle: remote and independent Service Task workers continuously fetch tasks, perform the work and share the result with the Workflow Engine once the work has been done.
13 mars 2018
Camunda Node.js External Task Client 0.1.0-alpha Released
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…
By Seif Eddine Ghezala, Fabian Hinsenkamp
2 mars 2018
Camunda Optimize 2.0.0-alpha3 Released
We are happy to announce the release of Camunda Optimize version 2.0.0-alpha3. This release marks the third alpha release of Camunda Optimize 2.0.0. It is also the last one before the GA release of Camunda Optimize 2.0.0 next month. The current alpha version contains lots of new features that allow you to receive more nuanced feedback when working with Reports, e.g. when a Report exceeds a certain threshold or when a flow node exceeds a given target value. We also introduce external sharing, allowing you to share read-only variants of Reports and Dashboards with colleagues who might not have an Optimize account. You can also embed Reports and Dashboards in other pages.
2 mars 2018
Camunda 7.9.0-alpha2 Released
The second alpha version of Camunda 7.9.0 is here and it’s loaded with new features. The highlights are: Throttle login attempts Long polling for ‘Fetch and Lock’ of External Tasks Additional filtering options for ‘Fetch and Lock’ Support for expressions in External Task topics Jackson version update Support for Tomcat 9
1 mars 2018
Camunda Modeler 1.12.0-alpha-3 Released
We are proud to announce the release of Camunda Modeler version 1.12.0-alpha-3. This alpha release ships with the latest DMN modeling and the possibility to deploy diagrams directly from the Camunda Modeler. It also brings us one step closer to a stable release which you can expect at the end of March.
20 févr. 2018
Creating a 3D renderer for BPMN
BPMN Diagrams are usually displayed as two-dimensional images. A top-down view of the process, that focuses on readability and is practical for day-to-day work. Those of you who were at BPMCon 2017 will probably remember the interactive experience “Be A Token” where you could walk around in a BPMN process in virtual reality. This blog post describes how the 3D rendering of bpmn processes is built with JavaScript using bpmn-js and A-Frame. If you missed BPMCon or did not get the chance to play it in virtual reality, there is an online version of “Be A Token” which can be played in the browser.
9 févr. 2018
Custom Tasklist examples
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…
2 févr. 2018
Camunda 7.9.0-alpha1 Released
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.
