Joget DX 8 Stable Released
The stable release for Joget DX 8 is now available, with a focus on UX and Governance.
Hi, the developer API documentation such as the WorkflowManager are intended for Java or BeanShell coding (which is also essentially simplified Java code) so they are targeted primarily at Java developers. Personally, I would refer to the project open source code when I need to understand how methods can be used. For example, https://github.com/jogetworkflow/jw-community/blob/7.0-SNAPSHOT/wflow-consoleweb/src/main/java/org/joget/apps/workflow/controller/WorkflowJsonController.java has many examples of WorkflowManager usage for different use cases.
You can try contacting the Joget company or its partners, I believe they might offer the type of training or consultancy services that you are looking for.
Does anyone in Joget world teach or provide a step by step video for beginners in building Bean Shell Workflow Manager scripts, plug-ins and similar extensions, etc. When I search such community questions, the answers only give simple links to documentation which already presumes a high degree of familiarity with the task that is being asked about. My partner and I already each have 40 years of IT coding experience in other environments. But we can find no step by step guide to follow in these areas of Java extensions using underlying Joget methods and we end up guessing and experimenting with the steps wasting many precious hours. The Workflow Manager page is a good example WorkflowManager. No doubt a handy reference for those who have done similar coding many times before. But an enigma to those who have not. We need a step by step guide to get to our first one. Most Joget documentation and community question answers seem to be of this form. A couple of links to hints, but no detailed guidance for first time attempts to extend Joget beyond the use of the basic GUI tools. Who can step up to this. In our case, we are willing to pay to save hours of experimentation, if such a service exists. We love and promote Joget but need some help as our needs extend into the Java extensions realms. We learn quickly, but hours of guessing at the presumed steps specific to getting from our need to a completed WorkflowManager plugin using the documented Joget methods is not helpful. And there must be others who would need such help and then sing Joget's praises even more.
I agree. There is huge problem with documentation of Joget. Especially with plugins. It looks like a reference than an educational material. It looks like mystical hidden knowledge held by someone and the documentation is simply for reference if they wish to remember something. But in no way it is an educational material for beginners and there is no such thing anywhere. Because those of us who create software know very well that there will always be a need for customization, the fact that the joget does not provide you with training material to learn how to make plugins from scratch is a very critical issue that will probably make us reject it.
...and for those who will rush to answer... I know java!