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Activiti Form

nishant23 — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:51:51 GMT

Hi,I am new to Activiti and facing some problems in it.I want to add a file to the form key of a user task. I added the file to the form key but when I deploy my bpmn to activiti-explorer I don't see any form there. I had attached the forms to my zip file along with my bpmn file which I deployed to

Re: Activiti Form

frederikherema1 — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:32:30 GMT

Activiti-explorer doesn't use the "old" way of form-rendering since 5.6 or 5.7 (using a form-key and a resource in the XML). It now uses form-properties instead (see user guide). However, you can still write your own UI that uses the forms in the deployment with the "form-key".

Re: Activiti Form

nishant23 — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:21:27 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for your response.

You said :-
"However, you can still write your own UI that uses the forms in the deployment with the "form-key"."

Can you elaborate on this or provide me with a sample tutorial or guide ?

Re: Activiti Form

jbarrez — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 08:25:23 GMT

There is not much 'tutorial' about this. You set the form key in the process definition. You fetch the form key programmatically trough the Activiti API. You use that form key somehow in your custom ui …. and that's it.

Re: Activiti Form

simple — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 18:43:27 GMT

Can you please elaborate and provide a snippet on this since we are using activiti 5.13 and have to create form like "Hello.form" and associate it with the form property so that form can be visible on activiti-explorer on a user task.

Re: Activiti Form

frederikherema1 — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:20:24 GMT

Activiti-explorer doesn't support using the "form key" approach. rather, it uses form-proeprties. Read the user guide, there is a section on how to use form-properties with snippets of XML… Please consult the user guide prior to asking a question on the forum, as it can save the people who answer these questions time.

Re: Activiti Form

rockstrom — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:18:15 GMT

Hello,
I use the version no. 5.12 of Activiti Explorer and still cannot fix this problem.

Please could you tell me how to link any user task with any form I created by myself.

I tried to zip the bpmn file with the form I created and got no result. I also put the key form in the start event:

startEvent id="startEvent" name="Start" activiti:formKey="forms/myform.form"

And also got no result.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Re: Activiti Form

trademak — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 09:35:14 GMT

What are you trying to do exactly? What behavior do you expect?
When you include a form key in a start event nothing will happen in the Activiti Explorer.

Best regards,

Re: Activiti Form

rockstrom — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 07:57:03 GMT

Thanks for your reply trademak,

I'm trying to assign a user task to [kermit] user and linking this user task with HTML form, by using [Form key] in the [Main config] tab. After uploading the process, nothing appears to kermit!

I just want you to help me linking a user task with HTML form in the version No. 5.12 of Activiti Explorer.

Thanks.

Re: Activiti Form

rockstrom — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 08:20:19 GMT

Actually, I read the activiti in action book and set the form key in start event based on a section in the following:
activiti_in_action.pdf -> appendix B "BPMN 2.0 supported elements in activiti" -> None start event page 39

It says that "The none start event is the simplest start event element that can be started using the Activiti API" …
…..
and its properties are activiti:formKey and activiti:initiator

Please take a look:
http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/534/cnu6.png

For this reason I used the form key in start event.

thanks for your help.

Re: Activiti Form

elintegro — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 05:46:46 GMT

It would be real nice to use activiti-explorer as a base application to test processes and use custom forms. I don't see why this feature has been taken down… ??? In fact I find it quite outrageous that such an amazing feature gets deprecated for no reason…

So now to my question if I wanted to diagrammatically change activiti-explorer so that it once again supports custom forms would I have to develop that feature myself by becoming a developer on github? Is there a way to quickly restore this feature?

Re: Activiti Form

jbarrez — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 10:46:55 GMT

@elintegro: what do you mean? Custom forms are still available in explorer.

Re: Activiti Form

rogerruiz — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 21:03:37 GMT

HI Im new in Activiti and i think is great but i experience the same problem a can't add a custom form to the start event I don't Know what I'm doiing wrong but but in the diagram i use :
<startEvent id="startevent1" name="Start" activiti:initiator="kermit" activiti:formKey="inicio.form"></startEvent>
and the form is :
<h1>Book Order</h1>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<label>Book title:

</label>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
but when I uploat the zip fila with the xml and the .form fila nothing Happend.
I'll aprecite your help thanks.

Re: Activiti Form

jbarrez — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:18:41 GMT

Forms in Activiti are not done using html anymore, but using the form properties approach: http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#forms

Re: Activiti Form

aalaa — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:23:11 GMT

I can't find any reference showing the structure of the form, if we are not using html anymore so what is the alternative ? what is the structure of the external form now ??

Re: Activiti Form

jbarrez — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:13:19 GMT

That's because it's completely up to you. Activiti does not have a 'form renderer' when it comes to external forms, that's something you'll have to add yourself