topic Re: UI customization in Alfresco Archive

UI customization

nirvana — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 09:24:29 GMT

Hi,Is there a way for customizing the form fields, buttons, look & feel (applying styles, css), etc.I need it very rigorously. Any help will be much appreciated.Thanks in advance.Regards,Nirvana

Re: UI customization

jbarrez — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 08:03:25 GMT

Sure. The Activiti engine has two ways : use a formkey to reference an external form or use the form properties.
Both options allow for any customization you want.

But probably you're talking about Actviti Explorer, right. If so, then stuff is pretty hard-wired and not changeable out of the box I'm afraid.

Re: UI customization

nirvana — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 07:47:08 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

I'm trying a new application without activiti-expolrer.

when I click a link I'm forwarding to a action class which will deploy the BPMN file and start the process. But the formKey I've given is not displayed in the UI. I'm getting a blank page. Here I'm using struts2.


 <userTask id="usertask1" name="User Task" activiti:formKey="WEB-INF/jsp/approve.jsp">
      <extensionElements>
        <activiti:formProperty id="name" name="name" type="string"></activiti:formProperty>
        <activiti:formProperty id="experience" name="experience" type="long"></activiti:formProperty>
      </extensionElements>
    </userTask>

am I moving in the right direction ? if not can someone please correct me….

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Nirvana

Re: UI customization

jbarrez — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:07:38 GMT

Yes, this is the right direction: in the form key you define the unqiue form in your technology.

What do you mean with 'the form key I've given is not displayed'? You still need to read the form key in your struts app and go to that specific page, right.

Re: UI customization

sudheer_polavar — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 05:25:07 GMT

But probably you're talking about Actviti Explorer, right. If so, then stuff is pretty hard-wired and not changeable out of the box I'm afraid.
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Does above mean Activiti explorer is not for production use? or Are there customers using explorer in production by adding their branding stuff?

Actually we are looking/evaluating UIs for Activiti (apart from Vaadin). Just checking in case we can use explorer for our initial version of the product. Really appreciate your valuable suggestions.

Re: UI customization

maneeshu — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 07:16:05 GMT

Hi,

I am new in activiti and want to learn how to create an activiti appliocation using vaddin or kickstart.
Any help will be much appreciated

Re: UI customization

jbarrez — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:39:44 GMT

Activiti Explorer is written in Vaadin and should give you plenty of inspiration: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/tree/master/modules/activiti-explorer