topic New form type in Alfresco Archive

New form type

car82 — Wed, 20 May 2015 11:09:09 GMT

Hi all!!I'm using Activiti and i want to create a new comboBox that fills up with data from an external database. I'm following, the post: http://www.jorambarrez.be/blog/2013/03/13/creating-a-new-form-property-in-activiti/ .My problem is that, after changing the xml configuration file and adding th

Re: New form type

jbarrez — Thu, 28 May 2015 15:04:49 GMT

There must be an exception stacktrace somewhere on bootup. Did you check your logs?

Re: New form type

car82 — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 13:20:57 GMT

The problem were in the FormType class, the new one is:

<java>public class ProdottoFinitoFormType extends AbstractFormType {
public static final String TYPE_NAME = "prodottoFinito";

public String getName() {
      return TYPE_NAME;
    }

public Object convertFormValueToModelValue (String propertyValue){
   if(propertyValue != null) {
    return propertyValue;
   }
   return null;

}

public String convertModelValueToFormValue(Object modelValue){
   if (modelValue == null) {
        return null;
      }
   return modelValue.toString();
}

}<java>

Now i can submit a string selected from an external database table and use read it.