Maciej Swiderski [http://community.jboss.org/people/swiderski.maciej] created the discussion "Re: External form rendering & accessing variables" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/620195#620195 -------------------------------------------------------------- In general, I would say yes, it is possible. But it all depends on what you would like to use as viewer. By default jBPM uses console and I think there is an eclipse test client for human tasks as well. So if you would like to have it integrated with console you should write plugin (if I recall properly implementation of FormDispatcherPlugin), something similar to the jbpm-gwt-form. But if you like to have it stand alone you would need to leverage both REST interface and Task Service client to connect to task service to operate on tasks. By default jBPM console is responsible for retrieving task forms, but if you like to use JSF for that, you won't need that any more. To remotely access variables you could use REST interface, there is a process management facade that lets you, among other functions, set/get variables for particular process instance. For access it directly you should get variable scope from process instance and next add/retrieve variables out of it. HTH -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/620195#620195] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]

Maciej Swiderski [http://community.jboss.org/people/swiderski.maciej] created the discussion "Re: External form rendering & accessing variables" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/620428#620428 -------------------------------------------------------------- That depends on what work item handler you use for human tasks. If you use default WSHumanTaskHandler, it checks if there is "Content" variable present for the task and if so it is used as task variables that are sent to TaskService as ContentData. If it does not exist it gets all properties available for the task instead. That means that all that data are stored in TaskService and its data base. So to get access to it, you would need to look the task up in TaskService and then access its content data. To be inline with BPMN2 spec user task (human task) should have rendering element (extension point in BPMN2) for rendering specific information. Because having form information as variable is more like injecting execution specific data as process data, which is not the best practice, in my opinion. Unfortunately looks like the only option for now. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/620428#620428] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]