Howto render a custom form?

[mtaal]

Hi,
I am using activiti 5.8. My question is howto create my own html (actually javascript) form and define this in a workflow xml. I need more flexibility than provided by the form properties/form implementation of Activiti.

I checked the formKey usage but it does not seem to be used explicitly anymore.

Is there another way? Or which classes can I replace/override to implement this?

gr. Martin

[ronald_van_kuij]

The formkey is not used explicit anymore in the activiti explorer, but you can use it from the api and decide yourself which e.g. Jsf form to show.

[mtaal]

Thanks, but my question is also how to/what to override to generate custom html which should be rendered inside the Activiti task display. Is there a specific override point I can use?

gr. Martin

[ronald_van_kuij]

If you just use the api to ineract with activiti, here is no need to override anything…

[mtaal]

Sorry I mean if I want activiti explorer to display my custom html, how can I accomplish this?

gr. Martin

[ronald_van_kuij]

By doing a lot of coding, searching etc… Sorry I cannot be more precise. That is exactely the reason we (I) do not use the explorer for end-user apps.

[mtaal]

Ok, thanks for the reply! (although I had hoped a different answer ofcourse… 🙂

[ronald_van_kuij]

I'm curios to why you want a different ui framework integrated in explorer. What are the advantages that explorer has that you want to put integration efforts into it?

[mtaal]

The only thing what I want is to add a hyperlink to a screen which allows the user to accomplish the task.
For the rest I want users to view their tasks, current states of work flows, claim a task, most things of which are available in the explorer ui.

gr. Martin

[ronald_van_kuij]

The only thing what I want is to add a hyperlink to a screen which allows the user to accomplish the task.

Isn't that kind of the tasklist screen?

For the rest I want users to view their tasks, current states of work flows, claim a task, most things of which are available in the explorer ui.

Why 'most'?

And adding a fully custom form, that does not fit in directly with the explorer (not a form in the way Activiti uses it) is way more work than to use the api and e.g. the CDI components and develop your own ui (with tasklists etc) in that specific framework… Believe me, I tried.