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how to display text with variable at activiti explorer

tomi87 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:41:16 GMT

How can I display a text with variable at the activiti explorer ?pseudocode example:<activiti:expression> <![CDATA[ Hello ${StudentAppInfo.studentName}, You stay here from ${StudentAppInfo.dateFrom} to ${StudentAppInfo.dateToo} in

Re: how to display text with variable at activiti explorer

frederikherema1 — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:04:42 GMT

Set the "writable" attribute to false, in the form-property, e.g. (form user guide):


<activiti:formProperty id="speaker" variable="SpeakerName" writable="false" />

This will render a readonly text-box in explorer. If this is not what you need, you can always create a custom form-type (or alter rendering of existing string-form type) to suite your needs.

Re: how to display text with variable at activiti explorer

tomi87 — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:40:06 GMT

I know how to set it writable to false.
No I mean to show the following text in the explorer:

Like this: …and longer.


Hello ${StudentAppInfo.studentName},                 
You stay here from ${StudentAppInfo.dateFrom} to ${StudentAppInfo.dateToo} in this University.

What do you mean with a custom form-type and string-form type ?

Re: how to display text with variable at activiti explorer

frederikherema1 — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:51:41 GMT

Every form-property type, has it's own java-class associated with it. In activiti-explorer, there is a *FormPropertyRendered, responsible of rendering the value in Vaadin UI. These renderers are pluggable and can be configured in the activiti-configuration. You could extend the default one (StringFormPropertyRendered) to use, for example, a multiline label in case the property is not writable.

OR you can create a "custom" form-property, with a different type than "string". Good example of a custom type is UserFormType (search forum for this, I've already replied a couple of times with a full explanation of required steps).