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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 ...

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...

We have reached another milestone. Today, Joget Workflow v3 Enterprise Edition is released to the world! Compared to the community edition, the enterprise edition is markedly pumped up with enterprise features and loaded with enterprise plugins. Compare the editions here - http://www.joget.org/product/features/ and here - http://www.joget.org/plugin-comparison/ In v3, the Form and Userview builder has been completely rebuilt from ground-up to be fully extensible using a plugin architecture. Yes, you heard right, now you can create and add new elements to the form or userview builders. ( http://blog.joget.org/2011/06/what-are-we-brewing-for-joget-workflow.html ) You can download the web app builder now - http://www.joget.org/download/

It's a rainy evening in Kuala Lumpur. I was driving in the bumper-to-bumper traffic, and that traffic condition gave me some opportunities to catch up with tweets instead. Scott Francis' update caught my attention, he posted an article inspired by Activiti's Tom Baeyens' blog post ; basically, it's about BPM on the cloud . Tom Baeyens in the opening of his post: “The first thing we realized is that on the cloud, a requirement is self-service by professional consumers. This means that end users should be able to manage the apps they use .” “Immediately it became clear that hosting traditional BPM engine on the cloud is a big technical challenge with a relative low value for professional consumers.” Spot on! We have received numerous email requests from Joget Workflow users, asking about the availability of "switch-on-and-it-runs" hosted instances of Joget. And this request is getting more significantly relevant lately, when the v3 Beta is rol...

It's hard not to agree that Joget Workflow's look-and-feel is aesthetically pleasing, in addition to shipping great codes to the open source space. To continuously keep up with the " simplicity " design goal, we continuously examine and improve user experience by enhancing the user interfaces. One of the recent examples, is the improvement in navigating between Form Builder, Datalist Builder and Userview Builder. This recent enhancement is committed in the latest snapshot of v3 Beta code-base , and will be available in the final release of v3. The Problem In v3 Beta, if we continuously edit and design the forms, data lists and userviews, chances are, we will most likely end up with a couple of tabs opened in the browser; and it could be many. This affects the user experience, navigating between the builders and forms eventually resulted in cluttered tabs. The Solution Now, 3 nifty quick-navigators are placed into Form Builder, Datalist Builder and Uservi...

Our previous blog post, Sneak Preview of Joget Workflow v3 , has gotten a lot of attention from Joget Workflow adopters as well as industry watchers in the BPM space. Many people are surprised with the application-centric approach that we are pursuing, but at the same time, the comments and feedbacks we have received have been very encouraging! Why The Application-Centric Design? We have learnt a lot in the 19 months since the public release of v1.0. Based on observing numerous implementations of Joget Workflow, we were able to gather a couple of interesting facts: Process automation is just part of the implementation use case. Most of the time, what a customer actually needs ultimately, is an application. Process automation is just part of the implementation use case. A customer also needs reports in tabular format and the ability to easily export the records . As Joget Workflow's design goal heads towards maximal "simplicity", it doesn't make sense for us not to ad...

It's no longer a secret that the Joget Workflow development team is driving the project at full throttle to release version3 Beta. Joget Workflow v3 will mark a very significant milestone: to realize the ultimate goal of Joget Workflow being an application builder . “Why limit your imagination to just process automation, when you can build an app?” Recently, the most frequently asked question among the Joget Workflow community is, " What's new in Joget Workflow v3? " Here's a sneak preview to draw your interest ;) App-Centric In Joget Workflow v3, the design focus is enhanced from process-centric to app-centric. In other words, we no longer confine ourselves to just creating processes; we now create a web application that contains multiple processes ! For example, a CRM application can be made up of Pre-sales Process, Customer Support Process, Lead Management Process, etc. CRUD and Datalist When we talk about building an application, what are the most commonly ne...

Joget Workflow developers are committing full force into the development of Joget Workflow v3.0, with the vision of building a full-fledge workflow application builder that will redefine simplicity in software development. However, at the same time, our team is also committing enthusiasm into community engagement, to promote Joget Workflow into other strong geeky Web developer communities, by bringing down the barrier for Joget Workflow adoption. Within less than 2 months, we have released a set of plugins for WordPress integration , Drupal integration , and now ... Google Apps integration ! Google Mail (Gmail) Plugin : send email messages within a process via Gmail's SMTP server Google Calendar Plugin : create or schedule Google Calendar event within a process Google Docs Plugin : upload documents to Google Docs within a process Thanks to the plugin-driven architecture that is powering Joget Workflow, it is so much easier for us to develop integration points with oth...

Yes! Joget Workflow speaks Korean, and quite fluently to date, and we're saying so because we've already achieved 99% completion of the language translation by community effort at translate.joget.org . Here is the introduction to Joget Workflow in Korean language  (오픈 소스 워크플로우 애플리케이션 빌더 - 도입부). Of course, there are many other language translations being actively worked out by our ever-growing community of translators. Indonesian , Spanish and Thai are among the more popular ones. Let's look at Hangeul 한글 in action and what Joget Workflow looks like in the Korean native alphabet. Joget Workflow in Korean RTL Language Support Do you know that apart from the usual LTR languages, Joget Workflow is packed with RTL language (such as Arabic) support as well? And switching to RTL mode can be done easily in the management console, as shown below. Switching to RTL support and system locale is just a click away Come and join us in making Joget Workflow the w...

Similar to any other products, two of the questions that we are most frequently asked, are: What are the advantages of Joget Workflow? How do you compare Joget Workflow to competitors like X , Y and Z ? I'm pretty sure there are many people Googling for such information too, so I might as well publish my thoughts here. By the way, I'm only writing about some key advantages of Joget Workflow here, not competitor analysis :) 1. Open Source Software Being an open source model, software is not the only deliverable of Joget Workflow. In fact, the source code is also one of the deliverables . So, comparing to closed-source products, the source codes in Joget Workflow can be seen and examined by anyone, including the software engineering experts. This encourages the software engineers contributing to Joget Workflow to produce higher quality source codes . Thus, the open source model of Joget Workflow enables flexibilities in the following key implementation aspects: ...