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Expression to custom form field

jwistrom — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:14:47 GMT

HiI have been wrestling with this problem for a while and I really hope someone could assist me with this. I am fairly new to Activiti so I will try to describe as detailed as possible what I am looking for and what I have tried.I have created my first custom form field (I am not using activiti expl

Re: Expression to custom form field

trademak — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 20:04:59 GMT

Hi Johan,

Is there a reason why you want to use form properties? To me it sounds like you are better of with some custom logic that gets variables from the process context. Then you can get the variable value and present it to the user like you are describing.

Best regards,

Re: Expression to custom form field

jwistrom — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 20:11:30 GMT

Do you mean using a custom form with form key? I have considered that but I guess using form properties would allow me to better reuse the component. But if this is not possible with form property I might have to go with a form key. I just wanted to see if this could be solved using form properties

Re: Expression to custom form field

jbarrez — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:30:24 GMT

We ourselves are going away from the form properties approach. In the commercial version of Activiti, and in Activiti 6, the formKey approach is used (form properties are still there, but not used)