topic Is activiti:formKey really necessary? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/is-activiti-formkey-really-necessary/m-p/138530#M97099 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I started to use Activiti just recently and I find it easiest to use. I love it's simplicity and OSGi support that I couldn't find in competetive engines.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Since I'm new to Activiti and BPMN, I have a simple question from the topic: is activiti:formKey attribute really necessary? Can't I just use id attribute to check what form should I display?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>First of all, I use my own rendering engine and use Activiti API for all workflow management.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Let's say, that I have following process:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>[startEvent] —&gt; [EnterPersonDataTask] —&gt; [EnterPersonAddressesTask] —&gt; [EndEvent]</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Each task is userTask and has it's own form.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>A task could be written as:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;userTask id="EnterPersonDataTask" name="Enter person data" activiti:formKey="EnterPersonDataForm"/&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Right now I use task.getTaskDefinitionKey() to get id of a task and based on that id I show appropriate form to the user. In other words, you can say that I have 1-1 relation between task id's and my form's id's. So according to this I could just use such task instead of previous one:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;userTask id="EnterPersonDataTask" name="Enter person data"/&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>and have a little bit less configuration, that could be important when using large processes.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Can't that suffice? What are use cases that state that I should use formKey instead of id?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance for any help!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:21:39 GMT mariusz_cwikla 2012-12-13T12:21:39Z Is activiti:formKey really necessary? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/is-activiti-formkey-really-necessary/m-p/138530#M97099 Hello,I started to use Activiti just recently and I find it easiest to use. I love it's simplicity and OSGi support that I couldn't find in competetive engines.Since I'm new to Activiti and BPMN, I have a simple question from the topic: is activiti:formKey attribute really necessary? Can't I just us Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:21:39 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/is-activiti-formkey-really-necessary/m-p/138530#M97099 mariusz_cwikla 2012-12-13T12:21:39Z Re: Is activiti:formKey really necessary? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/is-activiti-formkey-really-necessary/m-p/138531#M97100 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It's up to you. We provide the formKey attribute if you want to use it, but you can also use the id attribute.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>But if you would have multiple user tasks that reference the same form I think the formKey would be a better solution.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best regards,</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:36:12 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/is-activiti-formkey-really-necessary/m-p/138531#M97100 trademak 2012-12-13T20:36:12Z