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nirvana
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Hi,

Is there a way for customizing the form fields, buttons, look & feel (applying styles, css), etc.

I need it very rigorously.  Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Nirvana
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jbarrez
Star Contributor
Star Contributor
Sure. The Activiti engine has two ways : use a formkey to reference an external form or use the form properties.
Both options allow for any customization you want.

But probably you're talking about Actviti Explorer, right. If so, then stuff is pretty hard-wired and not changeable out of the box I'm afraid.

But probably you're talking about Actviti Explorer, right. If so, then stuff is pretty hard-wired and not changeable out of the box I'm afraid.

Does above mean Activiti explorer is not for production use? or Are there customers using explorer in production by adding their branding stuff?

Actually we are looking/evaluating UIs for Activiti (apart from Vaadin). Just checking in case we can use explorer for our initial version of the product. Really appreciate your valuable suggestions.

nirvana
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Thanks for the reply.

I'm trying a new application without activiti-expolrer.

when I click a link I'm forwarding to a action class which will deploy the BPMN file and start the process. But the formKey I've given is not displayed in the UI. I'm getting a blank page. Here I'm using struts2.


<userTask id="usertask1" name="User Task" activiti:formKey="WEB-INF/jsp/approve.jsp">
      <extensionElements>
        <activiti:formProperty id="name" name="name" type="string"></activiti:formProperty>
        <activiti:formProperty id="experience" name="experience" type="long"></activiti:formProperty>
      </extensionElements>
    </userTask>

am I moving in the right direction ? if not can someone please correct me….

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Nirvana

jbarrez
Star Contributor
Star Contributor
Yes,  this is the right direction: in the form key you define the unqiue form in your technology.

What do you mean with 'the form key I've given is not displayed'? You still need to read the form key in your struts app and go to that specific page, right.

maneeshu
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Hi,

I am new in activiti and want to learn how to create an activiti appliocation using vaddin or kickstart.
Any help will be much appreciated

jbarrez
Star Contributor
Star Contributor
Activiti Explorer is written in Vaadin and should give you plenty of inspiration: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/tree/master/modules/activiti-explorer