Summary

In this chapter, we explored the various capabilities within IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation that allow you to build user interfaces that call workflows or backend services via exposed automation services.

We built a responsive multi-page business application that provides a user interface for collecting contact information. We looked at the layout and configuration of view components, associated input fields with variables that held the input values, and examined how to connect the application to automation services, including how to map data from variables to service inputs.

After that, we examined templates and toolkits as mechanisms for reuse, to reduce duplication and effort. We also discussed some of the toolkits and templates provided out of the box, including UI Toolkit and Content Services.

Finally, we described the steps to version and publish the application so that it can be deployed to IBM Automation Navigator. From there, end users can launch the...