2.0 RC1 Release notes

Aperte Workflow is an Open Source BPM suite, providing ready-to-use, comprehensive process platform for Liferay Portal.

Aperte Workflow version 2.0 RC1 some new features:

• Web service API.
• Support of parallel processes and subprocess.
• Ability to create custom process dictionaries from the modeler.
• Added SwitchWidget - widget displays one of its child widgets depending on the condition.
• Ability to mark buttons as Primary / Secondary to visually distinguish primary from secondary share (Cancel/Correct)
• BPM notifications:
  • E-mails are displayed in the background with jobbing, instead of immediately, as it was before the place
  • The ability to deliver custom parameters used to fill e-mails, templates.
  • Increased range of account setup / templates / shipping notification
  • Configuration panel
• Automatically adding roles to liferay by using "roles-config.xml" file defined in plugin.
• Plugins can define custome gui, which can be placed in the Aperte User Workflow Portlet. You can put a lot of these portlets on a single page.
• Similar functionality is available via the control panel: "Aperte Workflow Portlet Admin".
• Plugins can be placed in the directory specified by parameter osgi-plugins-directory instead of the default servlet directory: "osgi-plugins".

Fixed Issues:

• Bypass problem of automatic step on the beginning of the process, by means of human task with a name beginning with the AUTO_SKIP
• Problem with default language.
• Resolved problem with national characters.
• Repaired liferay freezes, when wrong name of tasks.
• MulseStep timeout problem, does not exist any more.
• Resolved many problems with Scripts.
• Get rid of many misleading logs.
• Added new OSGI plugin loading mechanism, to improve Aperte Start.
• Improved diagram validation during deployment.
• Added some polish translations.
• Codes now compile with java 1.7.
• Repaired issues with I18n.
• File upload widget now works like a charm.
• Imporved plugin redeployment/undeployment.
• Improved overall system stability and performance.
• Repaired widged elements issues.
• Process deadlines uses bpm notification instead of their own.
• Fixed many more minor issues.

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Aperte Workflow’s most important highlights are:

• Integration with Liferay Portal, providing tons of advanced features
• Support for various BPM engines, including jBPM4.4 or Activiti 5.8
• Operation via the web service.
• Felix OSGi framework brings control and management over features used in business processes. It also supports component reusability through various business processes.
• Simple and effective Enterprise Integration provided by Mule ESB plugin.
• Friendly user interface brought by Vaadin framework. It is also possible and easy to enhance user interface elements with Vaadin.
• Aperte Workflow Modeler - a complete, web-based process design environment. Aperte Workflow Modeler allows users to build, deploy and test processes in minutes, while still supporting the open architecture and plugins provided by Aperte Workflow.
• Support for popular servlet containers (JBoss, Tomcat) and RDBMS - with JTA support.
• Integrated Lucene search - with respect to roles and permissions configured on a process
• Process instance console, available in Liferay Control Panel. The console provides basic Business Activity Monitoring features.
• Configuration consoles available in Liferay Control Panel