Use extaernal Form

[mtail]

Hi,

Can i use external form in the last Activiti version ?
How ?

Thank's

[frederikherema1]

You can render the form you want in any technology and use the TaskService.complete(id, variablesExtractedFromForm) method, passing in the values form the form as variables.

If you want a mechanism to decide at design-time (bpmn20.xml), what form should be shown at runtime, you can use the activiti:formKey attribute (see user guide). This way, you can connect an ID that points to a form in your UI to a task. When getting the task, you can check what form-key it has an render the right form in your UI.

[mtail]

Hi,

I created a simple form called request.form.
I bind this form in a task in property "activiti:formKey" like this in MyProcess.bpmn :
    <userTask id="handleRequest" name="Handle vacation request"
                   activiti:assignee="kermit" activiti:candidateGroups="management"
                   activiti:formKey="request.form">
            <documentation>${employeeName} would like to take ${numberOfDays} day(s) of vacation (Motivation:${vacationMotivation}).   
            </documentation>
    </userTask>

After i zipped the request.form and MyProcess.bpmn and deplyed the zip in activiti-explorer and start it.
But my form is not displayed in the task in runtime.
What is the problem?

Thank's

[mtail]

Hi,

I created a simple form called request.form.
I bind this form in a task in property "activiti:formKey" like this in MyProcess.bpmn :
    <userTask id="handleRequest" name="Handle vacation request"
                   activiti:assignee="kermit" activiti:candidateGroups="management"
                   activiti:formKey="request.form">
            <documentation>${employeeName} would like to take ${numberOfDays} day(s) of vacation (Motivation:${vacationMotivation}).   
            </documentation>
    </userTask>

After i zipped the request.form and MyProcess.bpmn and deplyed the zip in activiti-explorer and start it.
But my form is not displayed in the task in runtime.
What is the problem?

Thank's

[frederikherema1]

Activiti explorer DOES NOT use form-rendering. It uses form-properties instead. Take a look at the user guide on how to model form-properties.

Rendered forms can be extracted by using the Activiti java API, instead…