BoomiXcel

The Boomi Integration Platform Extension

A browser extension that enhances the Boomi Integration Platform web UI at platform.boomi.com with powerful productivity tools, visual improvements, and workflow optimizations.

✨ Features

🔧 Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut Action

• Ctrl + Alt + S Save the current flow
• Configurable (default ~) Toggle full-screen mode

🎨 Build Canvas

• Capture the entire process flow as a PNG (with transparency and zoom options)
• Remove the canvas dot grid — works well with dark mode (configurable)
• Double-click to add shapes via a quick-shape popup
• Restored old-style shape connector palette
• Non-connected endpoints glow for visibility; hover an endpoint to quick-add a Stop shape (configurable)
• Trace path highlighting during test execution (configurable)
• Chooser input tooltips — hover over truncated chooser values to see the full text

✏ Editing

• CodeMirror editor for Message, Notify, and Command shapes (JSON, XML, HTML, SQL modes) — the popout has a corner drag handle to resize it, and auto-recenters on release
• CodeMirror SQL editor for Database Operation shapes — "Edit SQL" popout on the query field plus a corner drag handle to resize the query textarea
• Resize Boomi's native inline script editor dialog with a corner drag handle — auto-recenters on release
• Resize the Included Components dialog with a corner drag handle — size persists across wizard steps, auto-recenters on release
• Auto-select default scripting language for new Data Process, Custom Scripting, and Business Rules shapes (configurable)
• Choose the code editor popout theme — Auto (matches Boomi light/dark) or a specific light/dark theme (configurable)
• Copy raw document content from the Document Viewer dialog
• Copy clean XML from the Component XML popup (decodes HTML entities)
• DB document table viewer — sortable, searchable, paginated table with "See table" toggle and maximize button
• Copy Component dialog defaults — auto-populate copy name with optional suffix, set Copy Password and Copy Component Dependents checkbox defaults (configurable)

🧭 Navigation & Layout

• Collapse-all-folders button in Process Reporting and Deployed Process screens
• Single-click anywhere on a process folder/title to expand (instead of the tiny icon)
• Open dropdown menu items in a new tab (old and new Boomi UI)
• Reverse modal button order — OK/Cancel instead of Cancel/OK (configurable)
• Remove sticky revision notification from the build view
• Adjust connection operation screen sizing
• Keep the Boomi footer bar always visible (configurable)
• Keep the Close button visible after clicking Lock & Edit on a component tab

📊 Process Reporting

• Custom auto-refresh interval (configurable)
• Table text wrapping — always / never / toggle on header hover (configurable)
• Live elapsed-time counter with red accent row, gradient badge, and per-second bounce animation
• Dashboard default time range — 7 days / 1 / 3 / 6 months / 1 year / max (configurable)
• Highlight WARNING log lines in yellow in the Show Log dialog (configurable)
• Default minimum log status for the Show Log dialog — DEBUG / INFO / WARNING / SEVERE (configurable)

🎨 Appearance

• Icon set selection for shapes — Legacy, Modern, Minimal, etc. (configurable)
• Old-style play/pause icons in deployed processes (configurable)
• Replace the Boomi masthead brand logo with the BoomiXcel logo (configurable)
• Tab names simplified — account name removed (configurable)
• Page-specific favicons with distinct colors per page — Build (blue), Deploy (green), Dashboard (coral), Runtime (coral atom), Reporting (purple), MdmSphere (teal), ApiSphere (deep blue), BoomiAI (magenta), Flow (orange) (configurable)
• For easier viewing, functions in the Maps text now automatically expand to fill the available space, allowing you to see all relevant information at once.

📬 Notifications & Reminders

• Platform status check on every page
• Post-deployment schedule reminder (configurable)
• Per-version changelog popup shown once after each update
• Settings-changed notification prompting a page reload

⭐ Other

• Options gear icon in the masthead — quick access to BoomiXcel settings without scrolling to the footer
• View in Process Reporting — quick-link icon on build page + context menu item on deployed processes (auto-applied filter)
• Revision History checkbox selection → Boomi GPT compare prompts for side-by-side revision analysis
• Copy component ID/URL from the build canvas
• Extract all Set Properties shape configurations from the build canvas into a modal table with TSV export (duplicate property names highlighted — configurable toggle)
• Copy a Set Properties property name or its value(s) — select a property in the step panel, click Copy, and choose name or value(s)
• Automatically rename downloaded documents to <ProcessName>_<timestamp>.<ext>
• Auto-check default build filters — Process, Process Property, Cross Reference Table, API Service (configurable)
• Auto-apply deployment notes — captures the notes from "Create Packaged Component" and fills them into the deployment notes field (configurable)
• Auto-apply deployment notes from Packaged Components screen — clicking Deploy from the context menu copies the component's notes
• Package Notes Auto-Apply — copies the Latest Notes from the first component row into the Package Notes field when creating a packaged component (configurable)
• Run Process From Deployment — after deployment, click "Run Deployment Now" to submit the process via the Boomi Platform API and open Process Reporting with auto-refresh + filter applied (requires Boomi API token, configurable)

⚡ Quick Settings Popup

• Click the toolbar icon for instant access to the most-used feature toggles — no need to open the full options page
• Changes save immediately; reload the page to apply

All features are configurable via the extension options page.

DISCLAIMER: Please note that Boomi has no association with this extension and does not sanction its use. They do not offer any guarantees or warranties in relation to its functionality.

Source code: https://github.com/mitchelljfranklin/BoomiXcel