topic Re: Form Customization in Alfresco Archive

Form Customization

hmartim — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:59:40 GMT

Hi,How could I customize a form associated with a User Task?Supose I want to execute some fields validation before complete the task, or I want to add a button that, when clicked, shows a support information to the user. Is form event model based on JSF, so I should customize the associated class w

Re: Form Customization

erikwinlof — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:30:04 GMT

Hi,

This is currently not supported in the Activiti webapps in a "proper" way but sure sure is something that we need to provide.
You could do the following hack for and put the following html & inline-javascript code in your form:

<div>
<a href="#" onclick="javascript: var si = document.getElementById('support-info'); si.style.display = (si.style.display == 'none' ? 'inline' : 'none');">Support Information</a>
</div>
<div id="support-info" style="display: none;">
Here comes the the support information
</div>

You could also include a <script> block in your form template that "might" get triggered, the reason I say "might" is because some browsers will execute the <script> code and some will not. I will add the possibility to use the <script> blocks in all browsers to my things to do.

To hook into the validation mechanism on the client is not possible without performing a serious hack which I wont even try, it is however also something that we should take a look at.

Cheers,

:: Erik

PS. We are NOT using JSF as the web framework which we have built the Activiti webapps on, instead Spring Surf is used: http://www.springsource.org/extensions/se-surf

Re: Form Customization

davidcognite — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:53:00 GMT

See also this topic for more information on JavaScript limitations and other solutions: http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?t=223

David.

Re: Form Customization

hmartim — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:23:39 GMT

Thanks for the client example.

There is also a need on server validation and suplementary server bussiness processing. So is possible in Explorer a pluggable rendering service that could be implemented with JSF, Wicket, …, or it is not the right way?

Hudson.

Re: Form Customization

limcheekin — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:29:32 GMT

Hi,

Is using JSF is mandatory? You may consider Grails with Activiti plugin project at http://code.google.com/p/grails-activiti-plugin/.

Regards,
Chee Kin
P. S.: I am project owner of the project.

Re: Form Customization

jbarrez — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:56:50 GMT

Explorer does not have a pluggable rendering service.
However, Explorer (and Probe), use a REST-API that you can use in your own application: http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#N10B1F

Re: Form Customization

limcheekin — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:39:20 GMT

Hi,

You may want to find out more for sample application I just release with the Grails Activiti plugin at http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=279

Regards,
Chee Kin

Re: Form Customization

hmartim — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:43:12 GMT

Thanks for all info.

I will analyze each suggestion to identify the faster way to adopt Activiti as our BPM suite.

Hudson.

Re: Form Customization

mghb2009 — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 17:22:17 GMT

Who can help me?
hmartim?
about render form(defining form properties on a start event or a user task) to jsf page …
http://forums.activiti.org/content/how-set-formfrom-xml-file-properties-jsf-pages

Re: Form Customization

jbarrez — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:22:03 GMT

Ressurecting a thread from 2010 … wont probably trigger an answer.

The idea is simple: Activiti has a formService. In JSF, get the form properties through the FormService. Put them on a backing bean or whatever it is called in JSF (been 6 years since JSF for me luckily). Have a dynamic form rendering based on the types in the properties. When clicking the button, pass the values again in the formService.submit