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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 .

Joget Workflow as a workflow management software has come a long way since Nov 2009. Version 1 and 2 were developed and positioned as a BPM workflow management system to design, deploy and run workflows for business processes with the workflow engine as the core. After almost two years of trying to find a market fit, we discovered that our customers were using Joget Workflow to automate their processes and then building web applications around those workflows. A process-driven application if you will! Joget Workflow as a process-driven application platform That realization made us rethink our product strategy. Why not provide a platform that allowed the users to develop web applications and at the same time provide them with the capability to automate any processes they need? It should be designed to be simple and easy to use with little or no coding! Hence, for v3, we decided to completely redeveloped Joget Workflow from ground up ( v3 Overview ). It is designed to be a pl...

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

Effectively from Joget 3.1.0 onwards, we have added in "Data Priority" option to the Hidden Field to cater to more use cases on the handling of data. Data Priority option in Joget 3.1.0 and onwards Data Priority determines on which value to be taken into consideration. There are 3 options with their own data precedence to cater to different use cases. Prioritization option in Joget version prior to 3.1.0  This would mean that we are replacing a very simplistic option available in prior version of Joget as depicted above.

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/...

Starting today, we are launching Joget Cloud (Beta) for public trials and testing. If you are a developer, you may want to sign-up for a trial account now... :-) Build Database Driven Apps and Add Workflow Joget PAAS capabilities allow you to quickly create and build database driven apps without programming. If you need to automate your processes, go ahead and add workflows to your apps. If you know programming, you can easily take your apps to the next level. Check out our knowledge base for more information on how to enhance the apps. Btw, in the upcoming v4, all Apps you create are mobile ready. You can check out what's coming up in v4 here . Ready Made Apps Joget Cloud comes with ready made business apps that are free to use and modify. You can use them for your business or if you want, customize and enhance these ready made apps to suit your needs. You can quickly get started with the Simple CRM app to track your leads, opportunities and customers. No more ne...

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 ...

In this tutorial, we will be learning on how to build Joget from source. Please refer to the knowledge base article for the full documentation on this topic. You must fulfill all the prerequisites stated in the article before proceeding to build Joget.

In this tutorial, we will be learning on how to get Joget to run as a Windows Service. You may also refer to the knowledge base article . This video tutorial applies to both Joget Community and Enterprise edition. In this video tutorial, we will be using the default Joget installer for Windows. You may download it here if you have not done so. The Windows installer is prepacked with Apache Tomcat 6 (Application Server) and MySQL (Database) to get you started in no time. During the course of this tutorial, we will also be learning on how to:- Create Apache Tomcat 6 as service. Create MySQL as service. Make MySQL service as the dependency to Apache Tomcat 6.

User notification  plugin is used to notify users on new tasks. It is to be implemented at the application level thus allows greater customization of its notification content. It is a one-time setup process and this plugin will be called every time a new task is created. The following video tutorial shows on how you can configure the User Notification. View on Youtube

This is the third part of the video to develop a Joget Workflow v3 App. In the previous part, we have  designed all the forms necessary for the Claim App process. In this video, we are going to revisit the forms to add in a  Calculation field , and then complete off the entire App by adding in the Datalist and Userview. Calculation Field in Joget Form Builder Creating a new Datalist in Joget Integrating the Datalist created in Userview In this tutorial, you will be learning the following: Adding Calculation Field into the form. Creating Datalist. Creating Userview by integrating the process, form and lists. When watching any video tutorials, it is advisable to pause the video constantly to keep up with the steps. Please do not hesitate to post your comments on the tutorials. Thanks. Cheers.

This is the second part of the video to develop a Joget Workflow v3 app, in this case the Claims App. Earlier, we talked about on how to design a process . In this video, we will be showing you on how to design forms for the activities created in the process design below. We will be designing the following forms using the form builder. Submit Claim Claim Submitted Approve Claim Verify Claim Claim Item In this tutorial, you will be learning the following:- Creating form and mapping the form to a process activity. Using subform to populate existing form into form design. Generating Reference Number in the form. Using Form Grid element and Multirow Form Binder to handle multi-row/grid form data. Map form value into Workflow Variable to dictate the process flow. Automatically populate form field using hash variable . When watching any video tutorials, it is advisable to pause the video constantly to keep up with the steps. Please do not hesit...

UPDATE! There has been an error in the process design. The activity "Approve Application by Finance" should be then follow on the same route as "Approve Application". This is the latest design flow. ORIGINAL POST: This is the first of four parts video to develop a Joget Workflow v3 app, in this case the Claims App. The following image is the process diagram of the workflow in the Claims App.  Using the above process diagram as a reference, you can learn how to design the same process in the following video tutorial. In the tutorial you will learn the following: How to add workflow activities and system tools to your processes. Set asynchronous or synchronous deadlines to send reminders if task is not perform during the specified time or to escalate a task to the next approval level if not perform in the predefined time frame. Set activity and process level Service Level Agreement (SLA) to monitor the workflow to ensure that tasks are...

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...