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created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/andymcc">Andy McC</a> in <i>jBPM Development</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/810598#810598">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>[My config - jBPM 5.4.0.Final, Windows Server, 7 and 8. Eclipse Helios and Juno]</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Where possible I'd like to use Designer in preference to the Eclipse editor but it has a number of features which I'm finding are "spoiling my enjoyment" <span> :) </span> and I wondered if they are likely to change in the next release.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Please be assured, these are not complaints and my aim is constructive. Here goes:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><ul><li style="text-align: start;">On my Windows set-up, Script tasks may start life as multi-line text, but always seem to end up being collapsed onto a single line which is awkward to work with.<ul><li style="text-align: start;">The Eclipse tools seem to maintain multiline editing but for some reason this isn't the case in Designer.</li><li style="text-align: start;">Is this just a Windows/Unix file-ending issue? (related- <a class="jive-link-thread-small" href="https://community.jboss.org/thread/223637">Problem with designer "losing" newline characters in Script Tasks</a>)</li></ul></li><li style="text-align: start;">I've not yet been able to import an existing BPMN process using the Designer Import BPMN feature. I can do so using the Eclipse-Drools-Guvnor toolchain but direct import fails, even for diagrams created for jBPM 5.3.<ul><li style="text-align: start;">I can export a BPMN file created in Desinger and then reimport it back in, i.e. Designer is able understand it's own output. </li><li style="text-align: start;">(related - <a class="jive-link-thread-small" href="https://community.jboss.org/thread/223567">Guvnor Designer Import BPMN error - "Could not find BPMNDI information"</a>)</li></ul></li><li style="text-align: start;">After a few minutes of use I get a "Local history cleared" pop-up and after that point it appears very frequently and often intrusively. Although I can disable local history, it resets to "on" whenever I save my diagram which I tend to do quite frequently. Again this may be a quirk of my set-up but it quickly gets in the way.</li><li style="text-align: start;">On a more positive note, will we be able to define a template to be used by the automatic user task form generator? The current facility is very useful but it would be even better if I could include layouts specific to my project (company information, in-house styles etc.) My apologies if this feature already exists and I've just missed it!</li></ul><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I wondered if these are likely to be addressed in the next release. I'm happy to raise Jira items if that's preferable.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Best regards and thanks,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Andy McC</p></div>
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