topic Re: How to create a Custom Form Fields like Text Area in Alfresco Archive

How to create a Custom Form Fields like Text Area

snehasissamal — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:13:10 GMT

Hi,I have created a start Form and added some fields. But when adding a field as "string" by default its adding a text box when start form opens.I am doing some POC to have some kind of approval process, but during the demo my client asked me to put a bigger text box(TextArea) for the comments field

Re: How to create a Custom Form Fields like Text Area

jbarrez — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:48:48 GMT

That will need some Java coding to solve, that's not out of the box possible without some coding.

Re: How to create a Custom Form Fields like Text Area

snehasissamal — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 14:19:04 GMT

Thanks jbarrez.

I am following the below post by you which is very much clear and short.
http://www.jorambarrez.be/blog/2013/03/13/creating-a-new-form-property-in-activiti/

But unable to find the config files mentioned, pls check the below quotes in the post..

"The form type must now be plugged into the process engine config:
bean id="processEngineConfiguration" …

"The renderer must now be plugged into the FormPropertyRenderManager bean. You can find this bean in the activiti-ui-context.xml file:"

Not sure where I can find the activiti-ui-context.xml file.

It would be very much helpful if you can help me in that.

Kind Regards,
Snehasis

Re: How to create a Custom Form Fields like Text Area

jbarrez — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 10:15:20 GMT

activiti-ui-context.xml is in the expanded webapp. Should be somewhere below the WEB-INF/ folder