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Configuring a user task node

User Task Node
User task nodes allow you to define and configure UI templates and possible actions for a certain template config node (ex: button components).

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General Config

  • Node name - the name of the node
  • Can go back - setting this to true will allow users to return to this step after completing it. When encountering a step with canGoBack false, all steps found behind it will become unavailable.
  • Stage- assign a stage to the node
When encountering a step with canGoBack switched to false, all steps found behind it will become unavailable.

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Data stream topics

  • Topic Name - the topic name where the process engine listens for the response (this should be added to the platform and match the topic naming rule for the engine to listen to it) - available for UPDATES topics (Kafka receive events)
A naming pattern must be defined on the process engine configuration to use the defined topics. It is important to know that all the events that start with a configured pattern will be consumed by the Engine. For example, KAFKA_TOPIC_PATTERN is the topic name pattern where the Engine listens for incoming Kafka events.
  • Key Name - will hold the result received from the external system, if the key already exists in the process values, it will be overwritten

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Task Management

  • Update task management - force Task Management plugin to update information about this process after this node

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Configuring the UI

The FlowX Designer includes an intuitive UI Designer (drag-and-drop editor) for creating diverse UI templates. You can use various elements from basic buttons, indicators, and forms, but also predefined collections or prototypes.

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Accessing the UI Designer

To access the UI Designer, follow the next steps:
  1. Open FlowX Designer and from the Processes tab select Definitions.
  2. Select a process from the process definitions list.
  3. Click the Edit process button.
  4. Select a user task node from the Process Designer then click the brush icon to open the UI Designer.

Creating a user interface

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Predefined components

UI can be defined using the available components provided by FLOWX, using the UI Designer available at node level. Predefined components can be split in 3 categories:

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Custom components

These are components developed in the web application and referenced here by component identifier. This will dictate where the component is displayed in the component hierarchy and what actions are available for the component. To add a custom component in the template config tree, we need to know its unique identifier and the data it should receive from the process model. More details in the following section:

Custom