topic Re: Properties in Alfresco Archive

Properties

atanus — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 11:35:30 GMT

1. how do we make form fields read only?2. how do we create properties that are not form fields?

Re: Properties

atanus — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 05:28:35 GMT

any update?

Re: Properties

atanus — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 07:00:23 GMT

how do we create properties that are not form fields? properties= process variables

Re: Properties

jonnyg — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 14:51:54 GMT

Another way of asking this, is how to define (or import) the data model, so that form & process designers can hew to it.

Re: Properties

jbarrez — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 19:33:00 GMT

Thanks JonnyG, that clarifies it.

Currently, the way to do this is to define 'variables' for example on the root level. Note that you can't set the value of this. To do so, you need to use either a script / execution listener that sets default values. If those variables are set, they can be referenced later on in condition builders, etc.

Re: Properties

atanus — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 04:59:23 GMT

Re: "Currently, the way to do this is to define 'variables' for example on the root level" - what exactly do we have to do to accomplish this?

Re: Properties

vasile_dirla — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 07:29:35 GMT

Hi atanus,
did you check this documentation?
http://www.activiti.org/userguide/#apiVariables

in this documentation you'll find a lot of information about variables.

Re: Properties

jbarrez — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:21:38 GMT

> what exactly do we have to do to accomplish this?

When you don't select anything, you can define 'variables' on the process level. That's what I'm talking about here.

Re: Properties

atanus — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:38:03 GMT

Do form validation and some I want to report on. I have seen the link sent by Vasile, but looks like it talks about creating and setting variables at runtime. I want to know how to create variables which are not form fields at design time and use them for form validation.
Please see this question as well - 1. how do we make form fields read only?

Thanks.

Re: Properties

vasile_dirla — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 10:14:33 GMT

Hi atanus,
please import the application I attached here and have a look on it.

i used global variables ("varBool1" and "varString" created at process level)
then i used some script tasks to set the values of these variables,
and finally there is a userTask (with a form on it)
in this form you can find visibility conditions based on the "varBool1" variable value and also a read-only form field for displaying the content of the variable "varString" (for this read only i used a "display value" field which references the variable I want to display.)

Please let us know if if imported successfully this app. (please rename it to zip before importing)

Re: Properties

atanus — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 10:30:42 GMT

Thanks.
I got below error while importing the app.
''Error while processing the app definition file : Could not deserialize form definition"

Re: Properties

vasile_dirla — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 11:09:18 GMT

sorry my mistake,
I created this application with the latest version on master and we have some changes in the form serialisation format. (so it's not a compatible format with your app format)
What's the version you use? (so i could know what version should I use to create the example)

Re: Properties

atanus — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 11:31:15 GMT

Alfresco Activiti Enterprise BPM Suite v1.3.0

Re: Properties

vasile_dirla — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 11:56:09 GMT

Ok, i prepared this application and tested it in a newly created 1.3.0 setup.
I also simplified the process a bit.

Re: Properties

atanus — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 12:30:50 GMT

Thanks again. Worked.