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Thanks to the great feedback from our beta testers, we’re pleased to announce the availability of the new Joget Workflow v6 Beta 2 release. This release contains many new features, enhancements and fixes as we strive to become the best open source workflow and low-code/no-code application platform. What’s New in Joget Workflow v6 Beta 2? Enhanced Security with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) User logins can now be secured with built-in support for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) , working with TOTP standard mobile apps like Google Authenticator or Microsoft Authenticator . Excel-Like Functionality With the Spreadsheet Element The Spreadsheet element provides Excel-like functionality with formulas and functions, as well as support for file and image uploads. Improved User Experience with AJAX Support in Multi-Paged Forms Multi-Paged Forms provide an improved user experience with AJAX support, allowing for switching between pages without the need for full page ...

After months of intensive development, we're proud to announce that the beta for Joget Workflow v6 is now available for download! What's New in Joget Workflow v6? v6 has a dual pronged focus: User Experience (UX), and App Maintainability and Performance. USER EXPERIENCE AND MOBILITY User Experience (UX) and mobility are the Achilles' heel for enterprise apps. To address this, new features in v6 include a Material-design inspired user experience, mobile device responsiveness, dashboard capabilities and many many more. With touch support for designing apps (imagine using an iPad to build and maintain apps!), building beautiful and user friendly apps will be easier than ever. APP MAINTAINABILITY AND PERFORMANCE The major challenge in app development is not building it the first time, but rather maintaining and evolving it over time. A big focus in v6 is improving app maintainability, with additional tools to manage dependencies and to automatically merge concurre...

It's here! The Joget team is excited to announce that the stable version of  Joget Workflow v5  is now released. Joget Workflow is an open source platform to easily build enterprise web apps for cloud and mobile. Build full-fledged apps e.g. CRM, HR, Healthcare, etc  Drag and drop forms, lists, UI  Add workflow to automate processes  Extend via plugins  Apps are mobile optimized and cloud ready  Download ready made apps from the Joget Marketplace Introduction Videos What’s New in v5? The following is a summary of what's new: New App Center New Admin Sidebar Seamless App Installation from the Joget Marketplace New Web-Based Process Builder  Improved App Generator Improved App Theme Flexibility New Form Signature New Audit Trail For Forms New and Enhanced App Plugins Performance Analyzer Upgrades Under The Hood Performance and Scalability Enhancements Find out in more detail here: http://www.j...

Hello Jogeters! Time really flies. We were just talking about what new features we should include in v5 and here we are, prepping to release the first public beta soon. v5 Beta 5 & 6 have been released to our partners for their testing and review. So far the feedback has been extremely positive!! And of course, we get the bug reports too. Here are a couple of updates that we want to quickly share with you Jogeters! Firstly, we have just published a page on our website that highlights some of the partners' solutions developed on the Joget Workflow platform. Some of these solutions are pretty awesome. You can check them out here:  http://www.joget.org/partner-solution/ . Here are some screenshots of some of the solutions. Secondly, Joget Workflow will be exhibiting in CommunicAsia/EnterpriseIT 2015 at Marina Sands in Singapore from June 2 to 5. Six of our partners will be there with us to chat with anyone who wants to talk "jogetians" (i.e. Joget Workflow s...

We are delighted to announce the immediate availability of the latest maintenance build of Joget tagged with version 4.0.14 (Build 1792). Compared to the previous release, this release has the following notable updates:- Maintaining order when Form Grid/List Grid hit validation errors. Ordering in Popup Select Box/ List Grid. Improvement in Jasper Reports Menu. Improvement of logging for Hash Variables. Improvement in process design update. Date format support improvement for Date Picker. Improvement of data storage for Multi Paged Form. Support of '.' & '@' in username. Persisting of current menu item in CorporatiTheme. Improvement the reliability of User Notification plugin. If you would like to view the complete change log, please look for the "changes.txt" file after downloading/installing Joget. Click here to download Joget .

Introduction Joget Workflow ( http://www.joget.org ) is an open source platform to easily build enterprise web apps for cloud and mobile. Build full-fledged apps e.g. CRM, HR, Healthcare, etc Drag and drop forms, lists, UI Add workflow to automate processes Extend via plugins Apps are mobile optimized and cloud ready Download ready made apps from the Joget Marketplace With downloads and adoption from across the world since the first release in 2009, the current stable version is v4 which provided a host of new functionality as described in http://www.joget.org/joget-workflow-v4/ The next major release v5 is coming soon in 2015 , and the following section describes the major new features and enhancements to be expected. What’s New in v5? New App Center The user interface has been refreshed with the new App Center sporting a simplified, cleaner look. New Admin Sidebar For administrators and app designers, the new Ad...

This first quarter of 2014 has been an extremely exciting start to the year. All the months of hard work have led us to this point! The first week of April sees us releasing and launching Joget Workflow v4 and just a couple of days ago, we quietly released Joget Workflow On-Demand . So, what is Joget Workflow On-Demand? Joget Workflow On-Demand is a subscription based service that offers Joget Workflow Enterprise Edition to small businesses on the Cloud. It is an application platform as a service (aPaaS) that allows users to create their own workflow apps or database driven apps with or without programming knowledge. Alternatively, they can make use of the ready made simple apps such as employee self service portal, expenses, invoicing, etc. for their own use, or as template to build new ones. What are the Benefits of subscribing to Joget Workflow On-Demand? Here are some of the benefits that can immediately be realized. Rapid time to value/benefit - Significantly reduc...

It's here!  We're pleased to announce that the stable version of Joget Workflow v4 (4.0.2) is now released.  Joget Workflow is an open source platform to easily build enterprise web apps for cloud and mobile. Build full-fledged apps e.g. CRM, HR, Healthcare, etc Drag and drop forms, lists, UI Add workflow to automate processes Extend via plugins Apps are mobile optimized and cloud ready Download ready made apps from the Joget Marketplace As an application platform, Joget Workflow v4 is a notable enhancement on previous versions. There is much greater emphasis on usability, mobility and security.  VIDEO TUTORIAL Check out the getting started guide and  video tutorials : WHAT'S NEW? The following is a summary of what's new: App Platform: App Center App Generator Usability and User Experience: Admin Bar Front-end Design Mode Mobile: Mobile Web Security Hardening: Platform and API Hardening Secure by Default ...

The 3.1.5 update version of Joget Enterprise edition features a notable security improvement over the earlier version. The security improvements are as follow:- Master Login encryption Master Login is typically used for handling JSON API calls. Encryption is now added to protect the credential to prevent one from retrieving it directly from the database. Datasource Profile encryption Database access credential stored in the Datasource Profile is now encrypted as well to prevent one from being able to retrieve the credential directly to access the database. For a complete list of changes, please visit Joget Workflow v3 Enterprise Edition Version Changes .

Since our first release of v4 last May, we have been getting a lot of feedback from potential new and existing customers who are currently using v3 stable. We are officially making a second Beta release today. This is a highly anticipated release for those who are evaluating Joget v4 in particular. Joget v4 Beta 2 would feature vast security related improvements and all round improvements on most of its features. These are some of the highlights:- SECURITY ======== - Added DataEncryption interface and its implementation - Added Security Enhanced Directory Manager - Automatically assign normal user role if user is created by a non-admin user - Prevent possible cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities - Show generic message and log stack trace to log file when ERROR 500 - Secured all passwords from rendering directly in HTML - Secured Process Start White List by default for newly deployed processes. - Support HTTP basic authentication - Updated API requests that...

This release contains stability and performance improvements, and is a strongly recommended upgrade for high usage installations, especially for users running 3.1.1 and below. These are some of the notable changes since the 3.1.1 version. Fixed: wflow-core - Run Process Menu - External Form behave differently when mapped to run process  Added FormPdfUtil - Hash Variable parsing in sub form. Refined logic to get a form field. Fixed FormPdfUtil - PDF fail to generate due to shared object. Fixed Calculation Field - Field name ended with similar value are given wrong results. Fixed Process/ Activity info - Exception when invalid number format used in limit. Tuned connection pool timeout settings. Added User Notification - Nested user hash variable support Tuned connection pool timeout settings Improved Performance issue on deadline checking.  Improve performance of XPDL image generation.  Fixed Memory leak while storing form data. Fixed FormDataUpdateTool ...

4 months after the release of Joget 3.1.1 , our team have continue working round the clock in the aspects of stability, robustness and security, we are delighted to announce the general availability of Joget 3.1.3. We took the extra time and efforts in polishing the product to become much more stable and solid in delivering the performance that one would expect from the Joget team. Although from the front-end, it is not exactly noticeable in terms of features Joget has to offer, in the back-end, we have performed a series of tweaks to make things runs smoother. Among them are:- Performance fix on Deadline Checking. Performance improvement on XPDL image generation. Connection pool timeout settings tuning. Nested User Hash Variable support on User Notification. Fixed possible memory leak issue in form data storage. Download now at http://www.joget.org/download

We're pleased to announce the general availability of Joget Workflow 3.1.1. This stable release provides improvements in stability, robustness and security. Among the highlights in this release are: Overall improvement in stability and robustness. Security improvement on XSS attacks. Performance improvement on the usage of custom i18n messages. Improved handling of concurrent submissions in form data. Increased max active transactions Greater compatibility in older Internet Explorer versions (IE8+). Better consistency for different app versions in inbox assignment forms. New attributes supported for the Current User Hash Variable. Added support for display and data formats in the Date Picker and Data List column. Added options to show assignment details as tooltip in the Datalist Inbox Menu. Added data priority precedence option in Hidden fields. Overall improvement in form elements (validation, Unicode support, storage) Download now at http://www.joget.org/...

In continuing our series of articles on what some of the new v4 features are, here is a preview of another new v4 feature. App Generator To further make development on the Joget Workflow platform even easier and seamless, we are looking to develop an App Generator feature on   v4 . The App Generator will enable user to generate a full fledged Joget Workflow app using the platform. Example:  First step, create the form in JogetWF. Second step, run the App Generator, JogetWF will generate all the process, datalist, userview, etc. Third step, Configure and Setup the App. Please feel free to share your thoughts with us. Again... the usual disclaimer... please note that we reserve the right to make changes to the features and release dates stated above :-)

In continuing our series of articles on what some of the new v4 features are, here is a preview of another new v4 feature. Mobile Web Front-end Our vision of Joget Workflow to be a platform for building process-centric web app also extends to the mobile web. In this next release, our goal is to enable all apps built on the Joget Workflow platform to be automatically supported on the mobile device. We are currently tinkering with PhoneGap to achieve this.. :-) The development of this feature is currently in internal beta stage. Will share more on this later. Please feel free to share your thoughts with us. Again... the usual disclaimer... please note that we reserve the right to make changes to the features and release dates stated above :-)

In continuing our series of articles on what some of the new v4 features are, here is a preview of another new v4 feature. App Centric Back-end This feature is still in the alpha stage of development. The user experience from the back-end (web console) will be enhanced radically. Admin users will be presented with an app-centric user interface, where apps are displayed in a grid view for easy access. They will be able to add, edit and directly launch all their respective apps according to their security access level. For those users who still prefer the old view, they will be able to switch between the new app-centric interface and the previous web console according to their preferences. The most significant aspect of this new feature is the direct integration of the Joget Workflow Platform to the Joget Marketplace . Users will be able to browse and directly download to try or to purchase any apps from the marketplace. We are really excited about the huge potential of in...

YES!! Joget Workflow 3.1 is released ... and v4 is already in the works. We will be publishing a series of articles briefly describing what some of the new v4 features are in the coming weeks. To start the preview off, lets check out the new Front-end Edit feature. Front-end Edit If you are familiar with using Joget Workflow to build apps with multiple forms, datalists or userviews, you will really appreciate this new feature. The front-end edit feature will save you a tremendous amount of time trying to find the correct form, datalist or userview to edit or modify... :-) All you need to do, is to first turn on the Front-end Edit feature, then navigate to the page you want to edit and edit your form, datalist, etc. respectively. That's it! No more searching through the long list of forms or datalists. We are currently beta testing this internally. If all goes according to plan, it will be released in the beta version of v4 sometime in Q2 2013. The usual di...

We are pleased to announce that Joget Workflow v3.1 stable release is now available for public download! You can download it here . So, what's new in v3.1 Enterprise? The primary focus of the v3.1 release is a cleaner, more streamlined user interface along with enhanced form and reporting features. New Streamlined Design     New in this release is a beautiful userview theme for end-users called Bootstrap, which is based on the popular front-end toolkit Twitter Bootstrap. Bootstrap Theme Also included is another shiny new userview theme called Corporati, and a new bundled sample app for an Employee Self Service portal. New Corporati Userview Theme The web console UI for building and monitoring apps has been given a face-lift to sport a cleaner, more streamlined look with more usable space. Streamlined Web Console Enhanced Form, List and Userview Features There are many new enhancements to forms, including support for having multiple pages ...

We are delighted to announce that our key partner in China, Valuprosys , is the second runner up on China MBA Entrepreneurship 2012 Competition for the East China region. China MBA Entrepreneurship Competition is first initiated by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2002. The competition serves as a platform to promote pioneering spirit, innovation, discovery and development of entrepreneurial skills. Since then, it has grown to be a substantial regional event in collaboration with venture capital firms such as the CID group . This is considered as a major milestone for the future development of Joget. To read more about the competition, please follow on here .

Joget Workflow v3.1 BETA is now available for public download! Download Links: v3.1 BETA Setup Wizard for Windows v3.1 BETA Bundle for Linux Joget Workflow is an open source web-based workflow software to develop workflow and Business Process Management applications. More than just a workflow or BPM platform, Joget offers full-fledged agile development capabilities (consisting of processes, forms, lists, CRUD and UI), not just back-end EAI/orchestration/integration or the task-based interface for traditional workflow/BPM products. So for example, build a sales force automation app instead of just a sales quotation approval process. What's new in the v3.1 BETA ? The primary focus of the v3.1 release is a cleaner, more streamlined user interface along with enhanced form and reporting features. New Streamlined Design The web console UI for building and monitoring apps have been given a face-lift to sport a cleaner, more streamlined look with more usable spa...