Evaluating activiti

[b_schnarr]

Hello at all,

we ware evaluating activiti as a possible BPM-Engine for our company. I searched this forum very carefully (and other sources as well), but there are still some questions unanswered. I hope, that someone could help me.

1.) Upload attachments to forms: we want to create forms with the ability to upload attatchments directly in the form (file upload element). I searched this forum and read this post : http://forums.activiti.org/content/file-upload-activiti. According to this answer, uploading files without manuell coding is not possible. My question is: Is there any progress? Is it maybe possible in the meantime?

2.) Fill forms with data from external datasources: Is it possible to create dynamic forms? This means that we can e.g. create a dropdown-menue in a form with values queried out of a DBMS or a web-service?

3.) Is it possible to simulate a process with given parameters in Eclipse?

Best regards
Ben

[martin_grofcik]

Hi Ben,

3.) Is it possible to simulate a process with given parameters

yes, I work on the workflow simulation engine. It is not based on eclipse designer. This simulation engine simulates whole activiti BPM platform instead of one process definition.
http://gro-mar.github.io/activiti-crystalball/

Is it possible to create dynamic forms?

yes.

create a dropdown-menue in a form with values queried out of a DBMS or a web-service?

We are using rest webservice calls to get values for drop down menu. We implemented it in our product edoras-one
http://www.edorasware.com/edoras/one.html

Regards
Martin

[suseno]

hi ,

just sharing my experience,
I'm facing the same issue regarding question no 1 and 2.
To solve the issue  i create my own 'Activiti Explorer' using  Grails Framework.
My application now is already in production.
i deployed Activiti-REST as standalone server .
My application deployed in same tomcat server.
to solve issue no1 i create dynamic form that support upload attachment.
File attachment save in the servers folder. Naming convention used to manage folder . using prosesinstance id as folder name.
to solve issue no2 i create customized java task to populate variable in activiti  from external data source.
there are  parameter sent to java task.
like  db driver, server db name,sql query.