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Extending Form Property?

njames — Tue, 08 May 2012 22:01:10 GMT

Hi everyone,Apologies if this question is answered someplace else, but I couldn't formulate a search that gave good enough results…We would like our Form Properties to have some extra properties, for example "form validation" using "masks" (think regular expressions) and "hint text".We would also li

Re: Extending Form Property?

ronald_van_kuij — Wed, 09 May 2012 05:33:32 GMT

All options you describe are possible. Although I do not now if these extensions would be incorporated in the core engine.

I personally use the formkey and fully externally designed forms without using form field properties.

Re: Extending Form Property?

trademak — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:57:46 GMT

Hi,

Are you using Vaadin for your form application?
If not, I think the possibility to contribute form property implementations back to the Activiti project are minimal.
In that case you're better off implementing your own solution with form keys.

Best regards,