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Configure a Spring Boot Project

The Operaton Spring Boot Application created in previous step uses the default and best practice configuration, embedded in a starter. There are several ways to customize or override the configuration. The easiest is to provide a set of parameters in the application.yaml (or application.properties) file. The full list of supported configuration parameters can be found here.

Customize Configuration​

Let's create an application.yaml file in the src/main/resources folder with the following content:

operaton.bpm:
  admin-user:
    id: demo
    password: demo
    firstName: Demo
  filter:
    create: All tasks

This configuration will result in the following:

  1. Admin user "demo" with the provided password and first name will be created.
  2. Default filter with the name "All tasks" will be created for Tasklist.

Build and Run​

Now you can rebuild and rerun the application again. Don't forget to call mvn clean before calling mvn install again. Now when you open http://localhost:8080/ in your browser, it does not ask you to create an admin user, but asks for a login and password. You can use "demo/demo", which we configured before, to access the Operaton web applications.

After you log in, you can go to Tasklist and see that a filter named "All tasks" was created, though it does not contain any tasks so far.