topic Re: Custom Form Type in Alfresco Archive

Custom Form Type

pedwards — Mon, 06 May 2013 01:21:38 GMT

Hi Guys,I'm hoping someone can quickly tell me what I'm doing wrong. I have activiti 5.12.1 running happily. I have created a simple flow with some custom forms and its all happy.However I know I am going to need more complicated formtypes than the supplied, so as a simple test, I decided to create

Re: Custom Form Type

pedwards — Mon, 06 May 2013 01:33:44 GMT

Oh, just to be clear:

<code>
package org.xxx.xxx.formtypes;

import org.activiti.engine.form.AbstractFormType;

public class IntegerFormType extends AbstractFormType {

    public static final String TYPE_NAME = "integer";

    @Override
    public Object convertFormValueToModelValue(String propertyValue) {
        return Integer.parseInt(propertyValue);
    }

    @Override
    public String convertModelValueToFormValue(Object modelValue) {
        return ((Integer)modelValue).toString();
    }

    @Override
    public String getName() {
        return TYPE_NAME;
    }
}
</code>

Re: Custom Form Type

pedwards — Mon, 06 May 2013 02:09:13 GMT

Just found this: http://www.jorambarrez.be/blog/2013/03/13/creating-a-new-form-property-in-activiti/
Seems that whatever I was reading was wrong… let me try that again

Re: Custom Form Type

pedwards — Mon, 06 May 2013 02:14:14 GMT

Yip that was all it was, I was missing:

<code>
<bean id="processEngineConfiguration" … >
…
<property name="customFormTypes">
    <list>
      …
      <bean class="org.activiti.explorer.form.MonthFormType"/>
    </list>
</property>
</bean>
</code>

Re: Custom Form Type

jbarrez — Mon, 06 May 2013 09:46:09 GMT

Now that was a nice monologue 😉

But thanks for posting back!

Re: Custom Form Type

thebruuu — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:52:14 GMT

Hi pedwards

Could you post the full eclipse project ? the community would appreciate for sure!
Thanks

Re: Custom Form Type

slaimankoeik — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 21:00:59 GMT

Hello,
1-I have same scenario for Pedwards but the thing i didn't understand is that how i will load to the activiti explorer my custom form property ?
how ?
i tried to insert this code into my eclipse process engine configuration file but the activiti explorer isn't identifying it:

<code>
<bean id="processEngineConfiguration" class="org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.StandaloneInMemProcessEngineConfiguration">
<property name="databaseSchemaUpdate" value="true" />
     <property name="customFormTypes">
      <list>
      <bean id="enumformtype" class="log_stream.enumformtype"/>
      </list>
     </property>
    </bean>
</code>

2-that what i understod from this link http://www.jorambarrez.be/blog/2013/03/13/creating-a-new-form-property-in-activiti/, but i didn't understand how inserting the custom form type into the eclipse configuraton file will notify activiti explorer for identifying this custom form type ???

please anyone has an idea.