topic Injecting Field Expressions instead of String in custom task in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/injecting-field-expressions-instead-of-string-in-custom-task/m-p/92025#M62881 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi there,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I just played around with the latest version 5.8.1 and the example for extending the Eclipse Designer. I am really impressed how easy it was to create my own task with my self-defined properties.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>For our current use case we need to have some construct like this in the resulting bpmn:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;serviceTask id="serviceTask1" name="Special Service Task" activiti:class="myClass"&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;extensionElements&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:field name="delegateExpressionProp" expression="${someFixedExpression}" /&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:field name="stringValueProp" expression="myStringValue" /&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/extensionElements&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;/serviceTask&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Our service task has two fields: the 'delegateExpressionProp' should be fixed for this task (no user input, but still in bpmn.xml output file) and 'stringValueProp' which is a required user-input field. No problem with the 'stringValueProp', but I don't see how we can handle the 'delegateExpressionProp':</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>(1) the user may not change the value (read only or even better: invisible)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>(2) we need the expression, but the output is using activiti:string instead of activiti:expression</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:field name="delegateExpressionProp"&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:string&gt;${someFixedExpression}&lt;/activiti:string&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/activiti:field&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there any way to influence the behaviour without creating a custom export marshaller as described in the user guide?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks for your help,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Tobias</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:43:45 GMT thilka 2012-01-27T18:43:45Z Injecting Field Expressions instead of String in custom task https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/injecting-field-expressions-instead-of-string-in-custom-task/m-p/92025#M62881 Hi there,I just played around with the latest version 5.8.1 and the example for extending the Eclipse Designer. I am really impressed how easy it was to create my own task with my self-defined properties.For our current use case we need to have some construct like this in the resulting bpmn:&lt;serv Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:43:45 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/injecting-field-expressions-instead-of-string-in-custom-task/m-p/92025#M62881 thilka 2012-01-27T18:43:45Z Re: Injecting Field Expressions instead of String in custom task https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/injecting-field-expressions-instead-of-string-in-custom-task/m-p/92026#M62882 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,&nbsp; Have exactly the same question just today.&nbsp; Have you received any response or solved the problem yourself?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>-dan</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:21:36 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/injecting-field-expressions-instead-of-string-in-custom-task/m-p/92026#M62882 blezek 2012-03-05T19:21:36Z Re: Injecting Field Expressions instead of String in custom task https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/injecting-field-expressions-instead-of-string-in-custom-task/m-p/92027#M62883 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have the same problem, too. Is there no possibility to do that?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>…I also tried to realize it with a custom ExportMarshaller, but it isn´t that easy like the UserGuide says, i think…</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:26:33 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/injecting-field-expressions-instead-of-string-in-custom-task/m-p/92027#M62883 pascal1 2012-07-31T11:26:33Z