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Form Stencils 101

Okay, I know. It’s frustrating. You’ve got Alfresco Process Services running and people interested, but you find it doesn’t have a particular form control that is essential for you to use it. Stress not, there is an easy way to create or link in your...

Activiti 7 Deep Dive Series - Deploying and Running a Business Process

IntroductionActiviti 7 is an evolution of the battle-tested Activiti workflow engine from Alfresco that is fully adopted to run in a cloud environment. It is built according to the Cloud Native application concepts and differs a bit from the previous...

How to deploy the Process Workspace app in Tomcat

This is a basic guide of how to deploy the Process Workspace in Tomcat. Step1Download the latest version of Process Workspace from Nexus APW 1.1.0 based on adf‌ 2.3.0‌Step2Once downloaded the Zip, you need to Unzip the file.Step 3Open the unzipped fo...

Alfresco Process Services SDK Maven Module

Five months ago I published the Alfresco Process Services SDK on my GitHub account, this module is dedicated to create extensions for APS in a consistent way. The idea behind this contribution started for these two reasons:Help attendees during offic...

Activiti Enterprise Developer Series - Setting up an Extension Project

Table of Contents IntroductionSource CodePrerequisitesJava Development Kit (JDK)Apache MavenCreating the Activiti Extension ProjectBuilding the Activiti Extension ProjectInstalling the Activiti Extension JAR IntroductionMost custom...

Form Stencil Examples - Alfresco Process Services (APS)

“Stencils” provide a very powerful set of capabilities to Alfresco Process Services powered by Activiti (APS) and can be used within the BPMN 2.0 Editor, the Step Editor and the Forms Editor. Within the context of Forms, Stencils provide the facilit...

Alfresco Process Services and X509/PIV Authentication

Alfresco Process Services v1.9 released a few weeks ago introduced a new authentication module which is based on an open source IAM project called Keycloak which provides a wide range of authentication options! Since Keycloak supports X.509 Client Ce...

Activiti Cloud & Jenkins X: Blueprint in AWS and GCE

Hey there, on this blog post I wanted to touch base on using Activiti Cloud with Jenkins X. As mentioned in previous blog posts we wanted to make sure that Activiti Cloud provides the right tools for you to build, deploy and scale new Activiti Clou...

Activiti Enterprise Developer Series - Process and Task Listeners

Table of Contents IntroductionSource CodePrerequisitesImplementing Java backed Listeners Coding the Java classes Implementing the Execution ListenerImplementing the Task ListenerTesting the ListenersListeners and Thread SafetyUsing ...

Activiti Updates, Just in Time for Summer

First of all, we would like to thank Mauricio Salatino (“Salaboy”), for all his fantastic work and commitment to the Activiti open source project. Mauricio has been a great contributor helping us in our mission of building the first truly open source...

New OSS challenges ahead

Today I am stepping down as the Activiti Cloud OSS Tech Lead @ Alfresco. We had so much fun with the Activiti Cloud OSS team during this last two years, designing and implementing the first iteration of Activiti Cloud. We (Alfresco and I) have differ...

Activiti Cloud 7.1.0.M1 released!

I am happy to announce the first milestone of Activiti Cloud 7.1.0 release train. For 7.1.0 we are focused on adding more support for BPMN elements and maturing each component to provide more features. We want to make sure that people creating applic...

Rest Call Task 101

The easiest way to integrate Alfresco Process Services with other systems is by using REST calls. Alfresco Process Services allows you to make calls as part of a process or to populate form controls, such as a dropdown list of values. I’m going to ta...

Activiti 6 is on the Way

Activiti 6.0 Final release is around the corner, and I’m super excited of being part of this release because it is the first step towards a bright future. I’m looking forward to working with the community to shape up the next releases of the project ...

Activiti 7 Deep Dive Series - Using the Core Libraries

IntroductionActiviti 7 is an evolution of the battle-tested Activiti workflow engine from Alfresco that is fully adopted to run in a cloud environment. It is built according to the Cloud Native application concepts and differs a bit from the previous...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #87

Last week week we presented at the at London DevOpsour experience with Jenkins Xto automate, release and manage 40+ repositories, which includes Java Libraries, Docker Images, HELM charts and deployments to environments which execute Acceptance tests...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #86

Last week we released Activiti Cloud SR1 containing some major compatibility improvements. At the same time we triaged the issues for our 7.1.0.M1 Milestone that you can follow here: (https://github.com/activiti/activiti/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue...

Activiti Cloud SR1 Released!

I am happy to announce the first Service Release for Activiti Cloud and Activiti Core artefacts. After getting a lot of community feedback from our first GA iteration we are now releasing 7.0.0.SR1improving mostly on compatibility with Spring Boot 2....

DMN Decision Tables 101

What is DMN?Decision Model and Notation (DMN) is an industry standard managed by the Object Management Group (OMG) for modeling and executing decisions that are determined by business rules. What is the role of DMN?Based on the DMN specification, “th...

Activiti: Last week Dev Logs #85

Last week we worked on stabilizing our 7.0.x and 7.1.x release trains while we updated the docs and prepare the final details of our SR1 release which includes some fixes but major compatibility improvements allowing easier integrations with other fr...

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