Form properties are not getting archived- submitTaskFormData

[bbarani]

Hi,

I have a simple workflow with some form property. I am trying to create a process instance and submit the task form data using a java program as below. Everything seems to work fine except for the fact that, the form properties are not getting archived even when I submit my form using submitTaskFormData. Can someone please let me know where I am wrong?

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.activiti.engine.FormService;
import org.activiti.engine.HistoryService;
import org.activiti.engine.ProcessEngine;
import org.activiti.engine.ProcessEngineConfiguration;
import org.activiti.engine.RepositoryService;
import org.activiti.engine.RuntimeService;
import org.activiti.engine.TaskService;
import org.activiti.engine.form.FormProperty;
import org.activiti.engine.form.TaskFormData;
import org.activiti.engine.impl.history.HistoryLevel;
import org.activiti.engine.repository.Deployment;
import org.activiti.engine.repository.ProcessDefinition;
import org.activiti.engine.runtime.ProcessInstance;
import org.activiti.engine.task.Task;
import org.eclipse.jetty.security.IdentityService;

public class TestActiviti {
   static HistoryService historyService;

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      Map<String, String> properties = new HashMap<String, String>();
      Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
      map.put("true", "Yes");
      map.put("false", "No");

      // Create Activiti process engine
      ProcessEngine processEngine = ProcessEngineConfiguration
            .createStandaloneProcessEngineConfiguration()
            .setHistory(HistoryLevel.AUDIT.getKey())
            .setDatabaseSchemaUpdate(
                  ProcessEngineConfiguration.DB_SCHEMA_UPDATE_TRUE)
            .setJdbcUrl("jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost/activiti1")
            .setJobExecutorActivate(true).buildProcessEngine();

      
      RuntimeService runtimeService = processEngine.getRuntimeService();

      Map<String, Object> variables = new HashMap<String, Object>();
      variables.put("user", "fozzie");
      variables.put("imageName", "mule2.jpg");
      variables.put("description", "Invoking Activiti from Java Program");

      org.activiti.engine.IdentityService identityService = processEngine
            .getIdentityService();

   

      try {
         identityService.setAuthenticatedUserId("fozzie");
         runtimeService.startProcessInstanceByKey("SimplePictureRequest",
               variables);

         TaskService taskService = processEngine.getTaskService();

         List<Task> tasks1 = taskService.createTaskQuery()
               .taskAssignee("fozzie").list();

         taskService.setOwner(tasks1.get(0).getId(), "fozzie");

      } finally {
         ProcessDefinition definition = processEngine.getRepositoryService()
               .createProcessDefinitionQuery()
               .processDefinitionKey("SimplePictureRequest")
               .singleResult();

         FormService formService = processEngine.getFormService();
         TaskService taskService = processEngine.getTaskService();

      

         List<Task> tasks1 = taskService.createTaskQuery()
               .taskAssignee("fozzie").list();

         taskService.setOwner(tasks1.get(0).getId(), "fozzie");

         for (Task task1 : tasks1) {
            task1.setDescription("trsyt");

            TaskFormData formData = formService.getTaskFormData(task1
                  .getId());
            
            properties = new HashMap<String, String>();
            properties.put("approvalFlag", formData.getFormProperties()
                  .get(0).getValue());
            properties.put("initiatorName", formData.getFormProperties()
                  .get(1).getValue());
            properties.put("descriptionValue", formData.getFormProperties()
                  .get(2).getValue());
            properties.put("userName", formData.getFormProperties().get(3)
                  .getValue());
            properties.put("imageName", formData.getFormProperties().get(4)
                  .getValue());
            properties.put("approvalConfirmed", "false");
            
            task1.setOwner("fozzie");
            formService.submitTaskFormData(task1.getId(), properties);
            identityService.setAuthenticatedUserId(null);
         }

      }

   }
}
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[frederikherema1]

The call to getFormProperties returns an EMPTY form, so these kind of commands are pointless:


formData.getFormProperties()
                  .get(0).getValue()

And what do you mean by "not being archived"? Not in history or in the runtime variables?

[bbarani]

The call to getFormProperties returns an EMPTY form, so these kind of commands are pointless:


formData.getFormProperties()
                  .get(0).getValue()

And what do you mean by "not being archived"? Not in history or in the runtime variables?

I am setting the form values (in user form) from the calling client. Approvers wont be able to modify the form values rather they will just click approve or deny.

I then try to archive the form (both approved / denied) - I want to see the form under archive tab. I see the task under archive tab but I am not able to see the form data. I got to know that I need to submit my form using submittaskformdata in order for the form values to get persisted in the tables but for some reason its not working for me..

I am able to get the value of the form using the below function.
    
     System.out.println("Task Id:" + task1.getId());
    System.out.println("Task Form ID:" + formData.getTask().getId());
   
    System.out.println(formData.getFormProperties().get(0) .getName()
    
     + formData.getFormProperties().get(0).getValue() );
     System.out.println(formData.getFormProperties().get(1) .getName()
    
     + formData.getFormProperties().get(1).getValue() );
     System.out.println(formData.getFormProperties().get(2) .getName()
    
     + formData.getFormProperties().get(2).getValue() );
     System.out.println(formData.getFormProperties().get(3) .getName()
    
    + formData.getFormProperties().get(3).getValue() );
     System.out.println(formData.getFormProperties().get(4) .getName()
     + ":" + formData.getFormProperties().get(4).getValue() );
Task Id:14911
Task Form ID:14911
Needs Approval:true
Initiator:fozzie
Description:Invoking Activiti from Java Program
User:fozzie
Image::mule2.jpg

I tried even setting static data in the form (as below) but this again just stores the task information and not the form field data (i.e. I see the tasks under archive tab but the tasks doesn't contain any of the user form property).


TaskService taskService = processEngine.getTaskService();
   List<Task> task = taskService.createTaskQuery().list();
   TaskFormData formData = null;
   for (Task tasks : task) {
    formData = formService.getTaskFormData(tasks.getId());
   }

   System.out.println(formData.getTask().getId());

   properties = new HashMap<String, String>();
   properties.put("approvalFlag", "true");
   properties.put("initiatorName", "fozzie");
   properties.put("descriptionValue", "Testing custom form");
   properties.put("userName", "barani");
   properties.put("imageName", "mule2.jpg");
   properties.put("approvalConfirmed", "true");
   formData.getTask().setDescription("testing");

   formService.submitTaskFormData(task.get(0).getId(), properties);

[frederikherema1]

The "Archived" page in explorer doesn't fetch the properties at all. Please note that the archive show HistoricTaskInstances rather than running Task instances. See HistoricTaskDetailPanel, no form-properties are added:

protected void init() {
    setSizeFull();
    addStyleName(Reindeer.LAYOUT_WHITE);
   
    this.centralLayout = new VerticalLayout();
    centralLayout.setMargin(true);
    setDetailContainer(centralLayout);
   
    initHeader();
    initDescription();
    initParentTaskLink();
    initPeopleDetails();
    initSubTasks();
    initRelatedContent();
  }

If you want explorer to show historic form-properties (using HistoricDetail), you'll have to write that functionality yourself…

[bbarani]

The "Archived" page in explorer doesn't fetch the properties at all. Please note that the archive show HistoricTaskInstances rather than running Task instances. See HistoricTaskDetailPanel, no form-properties are added:

protected void init() {
    setSizeFull();
    addStyleName(Reindeer.LAYOUT_WHITE);
   
    this.centralLayout = new VerticalLayout();
    centralLayout.setMargin(true);
    setDetailContainer(centralLayout);
   
    initHeader();
    initDescription();
    initParentTaskLink();
    initPeopleDetails();
    initSubTasks();
    initRelatedContent();
  }

If you want explorer to show historic form-properties (using HistoricDetail), you'll have to write that functionality yourself…

Thanks a lot for the clarification….