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Modeller vs Designer

pankajtandon — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:25:43 GMT

Hi,I'm looking to extend the GUI components in the pallette that are available in the Eclipse plugin (Designer) and the KIS BPM Modeller so that my end users have a smaller set of widgets to work with.But I'm seeing similar functionality in both tools and I am not sure which to extend.. the plugin o

Re: Modeller vs Designer

trademak — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:38:56 GMT

Hi,

We provide a web based modeler and an Eclipse plugin because we think they but have their use cases.
So it's really up to yourself which one you would choose. We will continue development efforts on both tools.
For extending the palette for the Designer we already have a large section in the user guide.
For the Modeler this needs to be done still, but a community member (m2spring) will create a Wiki for it (see this post)

Best regards,

Re: Modeller vs Designer

m2spring — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:12:45 GMT

Incrementally extending the Designer is pretty easy.
You can follow this example:
[img]https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkow-plugin/tree/master/jenkow-designer-extension[/img]

Incrementally extended the Modeler is not possible at this point.
I'm working on adding a new task type ("Jenkins task") into the Modeler here:
https://github.com/m2spring/Activiti/tree/jenkow-0.3.0
Take a look here, too:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/ACT/Extending+Modeler+with+new+task+type

The new task is working so far.
The missing functionality is the import of BPMN files.

-Max

Re: Modeller vs Designer

pankajtandon — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:53:15 GMT

Hi m2spring,
Thanks a lot for the pointers.
Altho' I cannot get to the link that tells me how to extend the Designer (broken image)

Can you please repost that link?

Thanks!