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Setting form property required/writable/readable attribute values with an expression

jim1 — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:04:48 GMT

Is it possible to do the following, or something similar?<activiti:formProperty id="someProperty" name="Some Property" type="boolean" required="${isRequired}" readable="${isReadable}" writable="${isWritable}"></activiti:formProperty>‍‍‍ (assuming the variables in the expressions have bee

Re: Setting form property required/writable/readable attribute values with an expression

martin_grofcik — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 06:00:41 GMT

Hi Jim,

I think you are right


  protected boolean readable = true;
  protected boolean writeable = true;
  protected boolean required;

The values are resolved during parsing. (are not evaluated during runtime.
You can change implementation easily.

Regards
Martin

Re: Setting form property required/writable/readable attribute values with an expression

jim1 — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 14:49:30 GMT

Thanks Martin, will take a look.

Re: Setting form property required/writable/readable attribute values with an expression

schmke — Tue, 31 May 2016 15:03:16 GMT

Jim,

Did you do anything in this area?

I have a situation where completing a task can cause the process instance to take one of several paths and certain form properties are required for one of the paths. So I'd like to be able to conditionally say they are required depending on the action specified. Is there a way to do this?

Re: Setting form property required/writable/readable attribute values with an expression

jbarrez — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 07:45:06 GMT

The typical bpmn way would be to use an exclusive gateway with conditions on the outgoing sequence flow.