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How to customize Activiti Explorer ?

fabttl — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:04:21 GMT

Hello,I would like to customize the Activiti Explorer web-app : adding new features, a search engine, new views, etc…What is the best practice ?I mean : - Do I have to download the sources and modify it ? - Is there a "plugin" mechanism ? Or just add my custom jar to the classpath ?Thanks a lot,Fab

Re: How to customize Activiti Explorer ?

trademak — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:09:29 GMT

Hi,

The best way would be to download the sources and go modify the explorer webapp project.

Best regards,

Re: How to customize Activiti Explorer ?

damokles — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:11:50 GMT

The best way would be to download the sources and go modify the explorer webapp project.

If we would go down that path, we would have to merge it every time a new version comes out. Are there any plans to make the explorer customizable via a stable API?

Re: How to customize Activiti Explorer ?

nico1 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:51:55 GMT

- Do I have to download the sources and modify it ?

This is what I ended up doing with the view of keeping changes to the bare minimum (e.g. changing the default users, minor cosmetics) and then Maven imports (zip dependency for bar file(s), jar for Spring beans).

With this approach, upgrading to new releases shouldn't be hard.

The above being said, I hear what you are saying, I've been thinking about adding e.g. a user registration feature. My feeling however is that the application is currently geared for intranet deployment, which is not a bad start.

Re: How to customize Activiti Explorer ?

chxkyy — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:18:07 GMT

what's the download url?

Re: How to customize Activiti Explorer ?

martin_grofcik — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:36:40 GMT

https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti

Re: How to customize Activiti Explorer ?

jbarrez — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:49:24 GMT

Smells to me like spambots 🙂

Re: How to customize Activiti Explorer ?

saliaz — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:52:49 GMT

Hello evenryone,

Thanks for taking time to review my post!

I went through this post and wondering if there has been any progress/update or best practice devised since to integration user registration feature for a web based solution. I intend to use activity to sppprt a web based application and that would require user registration and integrating with LDAP.

@nico/@fro, how was your experience with user registration mechanism? Can you make any advise on this. My concern would be same if we pick up Activiti6 for our development to custom build user registration mechanism, keeping codebase sync with the latest releases sounds nightmarish…

Any advises guys?

Many thanks!

salman

Re: How to customize Activiti Explorer ?

jbarrez — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:50:41 GMT

"if we pick up Activiti6 for our development to custom build user registration mechanism, keeping codebase sync with the latest releases sounds nightmarish"

So Activiti 6 has two components: there is the engine and there is the UI. I assume you are talking about the UI here? When it comes to the engine, all hookpoints are stable and won't change overnight.

When it comes to UI: the UI is meant as a demo application of the features of Activiti. But yes, you can change it however you like and use it however you like. But we don't make any hard guarantees on it like we do with the engine. In practice though, especially if it's things like LDAP and such, I don't forsee major changes that could break that.

Re: How to customize Activiti Explorer ?

saliaz — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:19:44 GMT

Hi Joram,

Thanks for clarification..really appreciate it!

Re: How to customize Activiti Explorer ?

minhquankq — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 05:57:51 GMT

Hi all, If I want to add new properties to Boundary Timer Event (example: BusinessCalendarName - because we can not set business calendar name on GUI of activiti-explorer), where can I update?

Thanks.

Re: How to customize Activiti Explorer ?

jbarrez — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 09:11:37 GMT

that would need quite a lot of changes: in the engine in the Behaviour class and in the parser. In the UI, in the editor javascript for the properties. We don't have documentation for doing that yet.