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Form support for conditional display, actions

jonnyg — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:21:33 GMT

Following this question from last year – https://forums.activiti.org/content/read-only-formUsing the Kickstart-generated forms, how do we support dynamic updates between fields?When a property is set to a given value, can we: set other property values on screen? disable other values (I know we can

Re: Form support for conditional display, actions

jbarrez — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 12:43:15 GMT

(moved to Enterprise forum)

Changing other form fields is currently only possible through customizing the javascript extensions. There, you can react on the formFieldValueChanged callback and change other fields.

Re: Form support for conditional display, actions

jonnyg — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 18:14:43 GMT

Thanks – which Javascript extensions? Where would this be done? Would this code apply to only the desired form?
Is this something on the radar to be included in the form structure, to be modifiable within the Kickstart editor?

Re: Form support for conditional display, actions

jonnyg — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 22:05:27 GMT

Found it – these are handled universally in workflow/extensions/render-form-extensions.js – loaded for every form.
So we'd need some hefty conditional logic to check we're in the specific form. What are the form/field object definitions?

Re: Form support for conditional display, actions

jonnyg — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:31:59 GMT

My thinking on this – I expect the intermediate step is to represent the field interactions in a JSON file, and have render-form-extensions.js read & process that. Ultimately, the Kickstart Editor could maintain the UI to manage that.

Re: Form support for conditional display, actions

trademak — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:08:40 GMT

Hi,

In the upcoming 1.4 release of the Activiti BPM Suite we support adding custom javascript event handlers on a form level in the Kickstart editor.

Best regards,

Re: Form support for conditional display, actions

jonnyg — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:20:24 GMT

Thanks - we will probably discuss more of the details with you.