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Evaluating activiti

b_schnarr — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:47:10 GMT

Hello at all,we ware evaluating activiti as a possible BPM-Engine for our company. I searched this forum very carefully (and other sources as well), but there are still some questions unanswered. I hope, that someone could help me.1.) Upload attachments to forms: we want to create forms with the abi

Re: Evaluating activiti

martin_grofcik — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 07:45:35 GMT

Hi Ben,

3.) Is it possible to simulate a process with given parameters

yes, I work on the workflow simulation engine. It is not based on eclipse designer. This simulation engine simulates whole activiti BPM platform instead of one process definition.
http://gro-mar.github.io/activiti-crystalball/

Is it possible to create dynamic forms?

yes.

create a dropdown-menue in a form with values queried out of a DBMS or a web-service?

We are using rest webservice calls to get values for drop down menu. We implemented it in our product edoras-one
http://www.edorasware.com/edoras/one.html

Regards
Martin

Re: Evaluating activiti

suseno — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:18:15 GMT

hi ,

just sharing my experience,
I'm facing the same issue regarding question no 1 and 2.
To solve the issue i create my own 'Activiti Explorer' using Grails Framework.
My application now is already in production.
i deployed Activiti-REST as standalone server .
My application deployed in same tomcat server.
to solve issue no1 i create dynamic form that support upload attachment.
File attachment save in the servers folder. Naming convention used to manage folder . using prosesinstance id as folder name.
to solve issue no2 i create customized java task to populate variable in activiti from external data source.
there are parameter sent to java task.
like db driver, server db name,sql query.