Web Model and Form Designer for Activiti

[jonvargas]

Hello,

We are starting the architecture of a new project that will use Activiti Engine as the BPM platform.

However, we require to provide a Forms designer, to create User Task forms easily, and map fields to properties, and so on. Also, we also need to provide a Model designer, so that model designers can draw and define the models easily.

So, I saw Alfresco Activiti and noticed that it already has some kind of Form and Model designer integrated, Web-based, and I wanted to ask the following:

1. Are these Alfresco Activiti components open source and maintained somewhere? I was unable to find references about them on Github
2. If not, what kind of components do you suggest to provide a Forms and Model designer would you suggest?
3. Would you recommend to develop and integrate these designers in our application? Or use the ones provided by a 3rd party?

How do you guys provide the Model and Form designer components usually in you projects?

Thanks in advance.

[jbarrez]

(Moved this to the enterprise forum, as these are Alfresco Activiti questions)

1. The Activiti 6 UI has a slimmed down version of the modeler/form designer in its UI. The enterprise version has more capabilities.

2. See point 1. The activiti 6 ui would be a good starting point … writing a modeler from scratch is quite a bit of work! (biut can be done with any tech)

3. That all depends on your business requirements of course … but in my mind, the modeling is done by a handful of people (vs many more that use for example the task lists), so having a separate environment is not a problem typically.