/camunda-cloud-visual-starter

Just a simple project which can run some basic commands to Camunda 8 in the cloud

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Camunda Cloud Visual Starter

Just a simple project that lets your start a process instance with some variabes on Camunda Cloud from the safety of your own local hardware.

How to Configure

  1. Add your Camunda Cloud API details to the application.yaml file. Follow our guidance on getting the API details for assistance.
  2. Save your updated application.yml file.
  3. Start up the application by running the application class. In this case, you can likely right-click Application.java and select Run Java.

Deploy Test Process (Optional)

If you'd like to test this out your can deploy the simple test model that you'll find in bpmn/TestProcess.bpmn.

process

Take the following steps to deploy this process:

  1. Log in to your Camunda Cloud account.
  2. Click the Diagrams tab.
  3. Click Create New Diagram.
  4. Next to the New Diagram, select the three vertical dots and click Import New Diagram to upload the model referenced above.
  5. Select the TestProcess process
  6. Click Deploy on the top right side of the page.

Now you've deployed your process and you can use this app to start is.

How to Start a process instance

You can go to http://localhost:8082 to find this lovely little front end frontEnd

You just need to add the Key of your process (if you deployed the test process this is TestProcess)

You can also add some variables if you like, in the following format:

{
  "name": "Thomas",
  "email": "thomas.heinrichs@camunda.com",
  "mobilenumbers": [
    "00412345678900",
    "00412345678901"
  ],
  "fireService_over": "false"
}

Thanks!

Thanks to Thomas for implementing the JSON payload for variables.