Installation Guide For Imixs-Open-BPMN

Open BPMN supports an extension mechanism to provide additional features to the modelling platform. Running Open BPMN with the Imixs-Workflow Extension allows you to model BPMN files that can be executed the Imixs-Workflow engine.

Note: If you install the Open-BPMN in Visual Studio, the imixs-workflow support is already included!

Run With Docker

Imixs-Open-BPMN is provided as a separate Docker image. To run Imixs-Open-BPMN with docker you just need to replace the docker image name with imixs/imixs-open-bpmn. This will run Open-BPMN with the Imixs-Workflow extension:

$ docker run -it --rm --name="open-bpmn" \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  imixs/imixs-open-bpmn

After starting the container the application is accessible from your Web Browser:

http://localhost:3000

See the general Docker install guide for a more detailed description about how to run Open-BPMN with Docker.

The Imixs-Workflow Extension

The Imixs-Workflow extension allows you to extend BPMN models with attributes to be executable by the Imixs-Workflow engine. The extension can be applied to ‘Tasks’ and ‘Catch Events’. The extension can be found in the Tool Palette in the section “Extensions”

After you drag the extension into a ‘Task’ or ‘Catch Event’, the element will be marked with a border. The element will now additional properties in the property panel.

The properties depend on the element type. You can find a more detailed description about the different properties on the Imixs-Workflow project site.