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DataGrid in start form

alexbt — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:19:48 GMT

Hello The Activiti Team.I have a question regarding the way to use DataGrid in the process start form that is externally rendered.My process has about 11 parameters, some of them are a must and others may vary from process to process.3 of them are separate ones that can be displayed as separate fiel

Re: DataGrid in start form

ronald_van_kuij — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:57:06 GMT

Can you advise me on the way to overcome the limitation?

Create your own forms in whatever ui technology you choose is always an option

Re: DataGrid in start form

alexbt — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:27:32 GMT

Ronald,

It's clear that I can create a form in whatever UI technology I want.
My question is about mapping UI DataGrid to Map. I need to overcome the limitation of FormProperty that doesn't support Map.
There are BooleanFormType, StringFormType, DateFormType, EnumFormType, LongFormType, but no MapFormType for describing table like fields in the UI form, where a single logical field is represented by 2 UI fields holding (as field value) property name and value correspondingly.
You even may consider it a feature request. I think many people may need such functionality.

Thanks in advance,
Alex

Re: DataGrid in start form

trademak — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:15:19 GMT

Hi Alex,

What Ronald means is that you can define your own Form types quite easily.
So adding a MapFormType would also not be too hard.
But you can of course also ask for adding this as a new feature in JIRA.

Best regards,

Re: DataGrid in start form

ronald_van_kuij — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:32:01 GMT

Sorry, for not stating it clearly enough, but we do not use the form properties either. We fully define forms separate from the flow. Activiti is a great workflow engine, but other technologies are better for creating forms.