Questions on usage of external forms

[hari]

Hi,

Can you please answer my below questions ?

1) Can I have a custom UI in activiti-explorer itself ? If so how can we build it ?

2) I see in some examples that form key uses .form files. But when I start the process and when the process is at an assigned user say kermit, I see an empty page in activiti explorer with just a single complete button.  If I have to use .form files, how do I need to go about it ? is there any tutorial or an example which I can look at ?

3) I hope we have to implement inbox of tasks by ourselves if we use custom user interfaces like jsp's.

Thanks,
Hari.

[jbarrez]

1) Depends on what you mean. Custom forms and widgets, yes.

2) The .form approach is a very old form thing. It's not use anymore

3) Yes, correct.

[hari]

Thanks for your reply barrez.
Can you please provide me a url where I can find more information about Custom forms and widgets.
Any examples also would help.

Regards,
Hari.

[jbarrez]

That's described in the user guide: http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#externalFormRendering

Note: it's deliberately simple: it's simply storing a form key that you can use to resolve something in your own system. The form properties are typically saved as process variables.