XPages-Anwendungen über den Webbrowser erstellen

Ein Beispiel wie XPages-Anwendungen über den Webbrowser erstellt werden können. Auszug aus der Ankündigung auf der Youtube-Seite des Videos:

Mit dem GBS AppDesigner können Unternehmen vorhandene IBM Domino Anwendungen webfähig modernisieren und neue Web-Anwendungen intuitiv erstellen. Und dass ganz ohne Programmierkenntnisse. Und mehr noch: Mitarbeiter aus Fachabteilungen können eigene Anwendungen nicht nur erschaffen, sondern auch mit Social Business Plattformen wie IBM Connections und Microsoft SharePoint integrieren.
Im Video wird am Beispiel eines Kreditkartenantrags die Erstellung einer Web-Anwendung und Integration mit IBM Connections gezeigt.

 

BPMN 2.0.1 released as an ISO/IEC standard

The version 2.0.1 of the Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN) was published as an ISO/IEC standard 19510:2013.  The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) writes in the abstract:

The primary goal of ISO/IEC 19510:2013 is to provide a notation that is readily understandable by all business users, from the business analysts that create the initial drafts of the processes, to the technical developers responsible for implementing the technology that will perform those processes, and finally, to the business people who will manage and monitor those processes. Thus, ISO/IEC 19510:2013 creates a standardized bridge for the gap between the business process design and process implementation.

You can download the standard as a pdf file on the > ISO page.

Neuer Beitrag im GBS Blog

Im > GBS Blog ist ein neuer Beitrag von mir erschienen: > Was ist eigentlich BPMN 2.0?

BPMN 2.0 Modeling with Microsoft Visio

In the last days I have used Microsoft Visio 2010 for modeling processes. Since Microsoft Visio 2010 does not support BPMN 2.0, I searched in the Internet whether a plugin or another tool is available. I found two good sites: The first is a validator for processes defined in Microsoft Visio: > BPMN Method and Style Validation for Visio 2010 Premium. This site converts internally a .vsd file into a BPMN 2.0 file and validates the method and styles. The second resource is a > BPMN 2.0 XML Export & Import Add-on for Microsoft Visio 2010. This tool was developed during the work at a > Bachelor Thesis.

Grafical tools for usage with Lotus Notes

Since some days the new release of > PAVONE Project Management 10 is available. It is a software to create, plan and monitoring projects. It has an user interface for Lotus Notes clients and web browsers. An essential tool is the grafical applet to create and plan projects, which contains a multi-histogram for cross-project capacity management. Further the Eclipse RCP-based client (PAVONE ProjectBuilder) to define project structure plans. The following two videos explain the usage of the gantt applet and the ProjectBuilder.

PAVONE ProjectBuilder (Eclipse RCP)

Gantt applet with histogram

Powerful Java API of a Process Engine

Yesterday, I attend a presentation about the Open Source > Activity BPM platform. A part of it is the Process Engine which has a Java-based API. You can find a > short tutorial about the API on the Activiti website. Of course, other available Process Engine have an API, too. For example > PAVONE Espresso Workflow, which is the core component of > PAVONElive, has a powerful Java API. This code snippet shows you how easy you can import a process definition, create a new process instance based on the process definition and complete the first task of the process.

// STEP 1: Import the process definition
// Imports the file LoanApplication.xml in the directory “c:\ProcessDefinitions”.
WfProcessDefinition wfDef = Session.importXMLProcessDefinition(“c:\\LoanApplication.xml”, “”);

// STEP 3: Initiate a process
// This step initiates a process based on the process definition called ‘Loan Application’
WfProcess process = pcsSession.initiateWfProcess( “”, “Loan Application” , “”, “”);

// STEP 4: Get the first task “Start Loan Application”
// First get all tasks which are in progress and then get the first task of this set.
Set tasks = process.getTasks ( TaskStatus.IN_PROGRESS );
Iterator iterator = tasks.iterator();
WfTask task = (WfTask)iterator.next();

// Place some operations on the task here
// … Your code …

// STEP 5: Complete the first task “Start Loan Application”
boolean success = task.complete();
if ( success == false ) {
// not successful, add error handling
return;
}

Further, you have access to several other features and all the data which will be handled by the engine.

(Source: Excerpt of the Getting Started Guide)

PAVONElive: Tip: View Resource Workloads and Availability

If you are a project manager you can be interesting to get the workload of your resources. With > PAVONElive you can do this directly in your project plan. Open the project plan of your project and add an histogram for the desired resources of your project. First, the workload for the current project will be shown as column. But you can expand the data to show the workload for all projects. A red column shows you, that the resource is overloaded during the time. If you move the tasks to another time, the columns will be customized directly.

PAVONElive: Tip: Use a Project as a Template

If you work with projects, you can use an existing project as a template for a new project. This is very useful if the existing project has a similar structure as the new project. The structure defines the tasks, summary tasks, milestones and the dependencies between the tasks. If you create a new project you can select the template which should be used. Then, the project structure of the template will be copied to the new project. If you use a project management methodology, the methodology can be represented as a template. For more information go to > PAVONElive.

PAVONElive: Tip: Printing a Project plan with header

If you like to print a project plan in > PAVONElive, you can add a header line, which contains the project name and the page number. For this, open the Print dialog, select a printer and click on Preview. In the preview pane you can click on the button to switch the page header. Afterwards you can print the project plan.

PAVONElive: Tip: Open multiple projects in a Project plan

If you work with multiple projects in > PAVONElive and like to integrate they into a grafical project plan, you can do this easily. Switch to the Projects tab and select the projects you would like to integrate in the project plan. Then select ‘Open in Project plan’ and click on ‘Go’. Afterwards the Project plan with the selected projects will be opened. The Project plan is not editable if you have loaded more than one project into it.