Extend the Activiti Explorer activiti:formProperty

[ioana]

Hi,

I've been working for a while with Activiti and I now need to extend the formProperty. I want to list in the Activiti-Explorer(!!) my own form (e.g. for a task user) that also has radio buttons, check buttons, textArea etc. It is very important to integrate this with the Activiti-Explorer and not to have a different view. What will be the best approach to achieve this? I've look into JSF and Vaadin, but they only use (at least so I understood) the Activiti API.

Thank you,

Ioana

[lpavone]

Hi Ioana,
Have you already taken a decission about it?
I'm in the same question now and I'd like to know how difficult is to extend Activiti Explorer with new fields and forms…
Thanks.

[frederikherema1]

Take a look in the codebase at org.activiti.explorer.form.UserFormType on how easy it is to add a custom form-type in activity explorer…
Also look into org.activiti.explorer.ui.form.UserFormPropertyRenderer, this class is responsible for rendering the actual control.

Both classes are hooked into the engine and Explorer UI using configuration…

[lpavone]

Hi Frederik thanks a lot for reply.
I was looking the code and you are right, at least at glance seems easy to extend and the interfaces are clear.
Thanks again.

[burn83]

hi , i have same question..i've readed something in prevoius posts, but i had any response to solve it…

Can someone attach a brief example in order to add, for example, a png in form?! I would add a png image (30px x 30px) above my form, on top on the field..

[lpavone]

burn83: I have no examples because finally I decided use Activiti embbebed in our webapp, but looking the classes which Frederik says you can find the way to extend a form with others components. Those classes are part of Activiti Explorer code, where Vaadin framework is used for GUI.