External form rendering

[ssandeep]

Hi,

We have a requirement to pop-up a dialogue in between an activiti process, take some input value and based on that input decide which task to execute. Now this pop-up can be an html or a jsp page in the webapp itself, which we want to render in the BPM process.

I have gone through the http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html?_ga=1.3314227.289762320.1452246556#externalFormRendering and
tried the activiti:formKey attribute, but its not working. May be I am not doing it the right way.

E.g. transferAmount.jsp is lying under webapp/pages/transfer folder.
<userTask id="transferAmount" activiti:formKey="/pages/transfer/transferAmount.jsp"/>

Can you please provide some help on how to achieve this?

Thanks,
Sandeep

[hari]

Hi Sandeep,

The activiti explorer will not look into your jsp's. The way you need to go about your requirement is by building it in a UI framework of your choice with a  task inbox and when one of the tasks from the inbox is opened, you will get to know their form key by the help of getFormKey method in org.activiti.engine.task.Task.

[ssandeep]

Thanks Hari, but we will not be using Activiti explorer. Its just a spring based webapp running under a container, where we want to leverage BPM process to showcase our own UI interface, i.e. the process executes a sequence of tasks and in between pops-up a dialog for user input and based on that input decides the next task to execute.

[hari]

I don't think you can configure pop-up's in the BPM process. You will have to handle that at your UI layer itself. 

[mikovirgoez]

Thank you for information.,