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Leveraging the IBM BPM Coach Framework in Your Organization

by John Reynolds, Mike Collins, Eric Ducos, David Frost, David Knapp, Ivan Kornienko, Bodo Naumann, Pat O'Connell, Paul Pacholski, Gerhard Pfau

April 2014

Intermediate to advanced

378 pages

7h 26m

English

IBM Redbooks

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1.1 User interactions with business processes1.2 Coaches: Custom user interfaces for business processes1.3 Coach Views: Custom user interface components1.3.1 Atomic Coach Views1.3.2 Composite Coach Views1.4 Human Services and Coaches1.5 Basic types of Coaches1.5.1 Task Completion Coaches1.5.2 Dashboard Coaches1.6 Using Coaches outside the IBM BPM Process Portal1.6.1 Launching Coaches via URLs1.6.2 Coaches within mobile applications1.6.3 Coaches within JSR 286 portlets1.7 How Coaches can benefit your organization1.7.1 Seamless integration of UIs and process logic1.7.2 Tailored UI components for your business1.8 Conclusion
2.1 Getting started2.2 Building a simple coach2.3 Configuring coach views2.4 Advanced configuration2.5 Coach view toolkits2.6 Creating Coach Views for business objects2.7 Further information2.8 Performance considerations2.8.1 Consider the expected browser version when designing Coaches2.8.2 Judiciously use the Table control2.8.3 Judiciously use the Tab control2.8.4 Minimize the number of Boundary Events2.8.5 Minimize the size of Business Objects bound to Coach Views2.8.6 Pick appropriate delay time for auto-complete fields2.9 Conclusion
3.1 Business data3.1.1 Accessing business data3.1.2 Testing Coach Views with Human Services3.1.3 Change event handler introduction3.2 Read/Write configuration options3.3 Complex objects3.4 Back-end integration3.4.1 IBM BPM Ajax call3.4.2 Boundary Event3.4.3 Dojo XMLHttpRequest (XHR)3.5 DOM manipulation3.5.1 Content box3.5.2 Sample download3.6 Preferred practices for developing Coach Views3.6.1 Cascading style sheets3.6.2 Coach View visibility3.6.3 Providing Coach View information3.6.4 Boundary Events3.6.5 Base Text Direction settings considerations3.6.6 Collaboration3.6.7 Validation3.6.8 Coach View configuration options3.6.9 Label support3.6.10 Coach Views runtime performance considerations3.6.11 Coach Views development considerations
4.1 Design and development considerations4.1.1 Minimize network requests to the server4.1.2 Execute long-running calls asynchronously4.1.3 Maximize browser concurrency4.2 Deployment considerations4.2.1 Use a high performing browser4.2.2 Enable browser caching4.2.3 Optimize network quality between browser clients and servers4.2.4 Warm-up frequently used Coaches4.2.5 Tune the HTTP server
5.1 Apex overview5.1.1 Apex Process Consultants5.1.2 Evolution of Apex user interface tools5.1.3 Apex Coach Views5.2 Designing Coach Views for a business technical user5.2.1 Business technical user defined5.2.2 User interface design skill levels defined5.2.3 Consolidate common patterns5.2.4 Specialize by behavior5.2.5 Clarify layout using helper views5.2.6 Specialize by data type5.3 Leveraging client-side data5.3.1 Combining server-side and client-side data5.3.2 Managing large data sets5.3.3 Integrate directly with a system of record5.3.4 Integrate with an external data source5.4 Packaging for reuse5.4.1 Modeling behavior without Apex Coach Views5.4.2 Packaging behavior without Apex Coach Views5.4.3 Packaging behavior with Apex Coach Views5.4.4 Summary5.5 Optimizing performance5.5.1 Reduce page load time by deferring processing5.5.2 Reduce page size by packaging Coach View source5.5.3 Reduce page size by modularizing into templates5.5.4 Reduce server round trips by caching templates5.6 Conclusion
6.1 Responsive design6.2 The Coach View UI Toolkit6.3 BP3â€™s Brazos UI Toolkit6.3.1 User experience matters6.3.2 Business case6.3.3 The implementation6.3.4 Layout and controls6.3.5 Example 1: Desktop, mobile, and beyond6.3.6 Example 2: Scalability and program success6.4 Conclusion
7.1 Rationale for EmeriConVIEWS7.2 Authoring experience7.2.1 Expectations7.2.2 Creating interactions between controls7.2.3 Creating on-page and off-page business logic7.2.4 UI-only controls (controls with no data bindings)7.2.5 Handling validation7.2.6 Sampling of EmeriConVIEWS controls7.3 Responsive UI design for Coach Pages and Coach Views7.4 Technical considerations specifically addressed7.5 Mixing EmeriConVIEWS with other toolkits7.5.1 Making EmeriConVIEWS views out of regular Coach NG views7.5.2 Using Coach subviews with EmeriConVIEWS7.5.3 Interacting with non-EmeriConVIEWS controls7.5.4 EmeriConVIEWS-enabling other UI toolkits7.6 Conclusion7.7 FAQs

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Assembling user interfaces with Coach Views

In Chapter 1, “The IBM Coach Framework and how it can benefit your organization” on page 1 we learned about Human Services, Coaches, and Coach Views, and how they can be used to build user interfaces. Now it is time to take a closer look at Coach Views and how they can be used to build rich, coach-based user interfaces. In this chapter, we are concentrating on the capabilities that are provided by the product. Those are sufficient for playback scenarios, when you quickly have to mock up a user interface, ...

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