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Howto render a custom form?

mtaal — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:49:57 GMT

Hi,I am using activiti 5.8. My question is howto create my own html (actually javascript) form and define this in a workflow xml. I need more flexibility than provided by the form properties/form implementation of Activiti.I checked the formKey usage but it does not seem to be used explicitly anymor

Re: Howto render a custom form?

ronald_van_kuij — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:23:56 GMT

The formkey is not used explicit anymore in the activiti explorer, but you can use it from the api and decide yourself which e.g. Jsf form to show.

Re: Howto render a custom form?

mtaal — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:51:30 GMT

Thanks, but my question is also how to/what to override to generate custom html which should be rendered inside the Activiti task display. Is there a specific override point I can use?

gr. Martin

Re: Howto render a custom form?

ronald_van_kuij — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:08:54 GMT

If you just use the api to ineract with activiti, here is no need to override anything…

Re: Howto render a custom form?

mtaal — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:40:17 GMT

Sorry I mean if I want activiti explorer to display my custom html, how can I accomplish this?

gr. Martin

Re: Howto render a custom form?

ronald_van_kuij — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:25:29 GMT

By doing a lot of coding, searching etc… Sorry I cannot be more precise. That is exactely the reason we (I) do not use the explorer for end-user apps.

Re: Howto render a custom form?

mtaal — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:29:05 GMT

Ok, thanks for the reply! (although I had hoped a different answer ofcourse… 🙂

Re: Howto render a custom form?

ronald_van_kuij — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:13:51 GMT

I'm curios to why you want a different ui framework integrated in explorer. What are the advantages that explorer has that you want to put integration efforts into it?

Re: Howto render a custom form?

mtaal — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:22:09 GMT

The only thing what I want is to add a hyperlink to a screen which allows the user to accomplish the task.
For the rest I want users to view their tasks, current states of work flows, claim a task, most things of which are available in the explorer ui.

gr. Martin

Re: Howto render a custom form?

ronald_van_kuij — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:01:44 GMT

The only thing what I want is to add a hyperlink to a screen which allows the user to accomplish the task.

Isn't that kind of the tasklist screen?

For the rest I want users to view their tasks, current states of work flows, claim a task, most things of which are available in the explorer ui.

Why 'most'?

And adding a fully custom form, that does not fit in directly with the explorer (not a form in the way Activiti uses it) is way more work than to use the api and e.g. the CDI components and develop your own ui (with tasklists etc) in that specific framework… Believe me, I tried.

Re: Howto render a custom form?

mtaal — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:26:38 GMT

Hi,
The actual work (checking a status or other information) is done outside of the explorer ui, so I just wanted to have a form/html with a link to that 'other' place (so a very simple html snippet).

But I understand now that it is better to build a custom ui..

Thanks for your quick replies!

gr. Martin