Best practices in handling webforms with Camunda

[David_Baker]

Hi there - I am not sure this is the right category to post this question…

My team is experimenting with Camunda but are struggling to pick an approach to handling webforms. I am asking for advice from someone in the community that has experience with building complex forms that integrate well into the Tasklist web-app.

[StephenOTT]

For any level beyond “basic” forms, you want to use Embedded Forms: https://docs.camunda.org/manual/7.12/reference/embedded-forms/

These let you work with Angular JS and the Camunda Form SDK, and it works with Camunda Task List out of the box.

[David_Baker]

Thanks for this. If we also want to be able to allow our customers to directly build a form that can be embedded in Camunda tasklist - are there a few form builders that (a) embed well and (b) still allow for ur developers to add advanced field-level validation (which would be beyond a business user)?

[StephenOTT]

See

Form Builder (Drag and Drop) + Form Server Validations

So this is some details about a project we are working on to provide Camunda with a Form Builder. This has been raised by others in the past: Redirecting to Google Groups. The purpose is to solve two problems: Ability to easily create the equivalent of Camunda Embedded Forms using a “Drag and Drop Form builder”, but also allow those same forms to be built using pure JSON. Provide a single language (javascript) to create Client Side and Server Side validations (so the server can validate …

Generally the model is to store your forms in A data store and have the Bpmn store a reference to the form schema (FormKey).