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Forms and External Forms

cmontagut — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:58:14 GMT

Hi everyoneWe are evaluating bpm open source engines for a proyect, and had a look to Activiti.It look's very nice and seems to fullfill all our requirements.But… we looked at the Forms and we are going to need more control over the UI (events, more complex controls like trees, maps, etc).We saw in

Re: Forms and External Forms

ronald_van_kuij — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:10:15 GMT

1:no, unless they are extensions of the current forms solution, or you extend the explorer
2:not realy, but you can use the formkey to determine which custom form you need to open and the form properties is you want your custom forms to be dynamic based on these properties.

It's fairly straight forward.

Re: Forms and External Forms

cmontagut — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:08:53 GMT

Thanks Ronald for your quick and complete answer.

I got a few more questions:

1:no, unless they are extensions of the current forms solution, or you extend the explorer

1. Have someone in the comunity done it before? If yes what web framework they used?, If no, what framework will be the more apropiated to integrate insied the explorer based on Activiti design?

2:not realy, but you can use the formkey to determine which custom form you need to open and the form properties is you want your custom forms to be dynamic based on these properties.

2. But these means that we loose all the explorer interface, we will have to develope the inbox and all the other functionality by our own, is that right?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Best Regards

Carlos

Re: Forms and External Forms

ronald_van_kuij — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:30:36 GMT

1: I don't think so and I would not go that way…. To difficult

2: developing an inbox in your own ui framework is way more easy than extending the explorer so in the end it is a fully customized app.

We used cdi and jsf in one project and tapestry in another. Works like a charm