topic Re: Questions on usage of external forms in Alfresco Archive

Questions on usage of external forms

hari — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:18:52 GMT

Hi, Can you please answer my below questions ? 1) Can I have a custom UI in activiti-explorer itself ? If so how can we build it ? 2) I see in some examples that form key uses .form files. But when I start the process and when the process is at an assigned user say kermit, I see an empty page in act

Re: Questions on usage of external forms

jbarrez — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:55:36 GMT

1) Depends on what you mean. Custom forms and widgets, yes.

2) The .form approach is a very old form thing. It's not use anymore

3) Yes, correct.

Re: Questions on usage of external forms

hari — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:05:12 GMT

Thanks for your reply barrez.
Can you please provide me a url where I can find more information about Custom forms and widgets.
Any examples also would help.

Regards,
Hari.

Re: Questions on usage of external forms

jbarrez — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 07:54:37 GMT

That's described in the user guide: http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#externalFormRendering

Note: it's deliberately simple: it's simply storing a form key that you can use to resolve something in your own system. The form properties are typically saved as process variables.