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9.26.3.1 Start Workflow Form Extension

The Global Link Translation Workflow defines one extra field for the start workflow form which is a due date field where the date is given as a Calendar. This field's value is also taken into account for the backend validation of the workflow. The image below shows the customized start form with a reported validation error for the field.

Start Workflow form Extension for the Global Link Translation Workflow

Figure 9.10. Start Workflow form Extension for the Global Link Translation Workflow


The following code gives the complete definition of the start workflow form extension for the Global Link Translation Workflow. The details are explained afterwards.

            
import { workflowPlugins } from "@coremedia/studio-client.workflow-plugin-models/WorkflowPluginRegistry";
import { Binding, DateTimeField } from "@coremedia/studio-client.workflow-plugin-models/CustomWorkflowApi";
import Calendar from "@coremedia/studio-client.client-core/data/Calendar";
import Gcc_properties from "./Gcc_properties";

interface GccViewModel {
  globalLinkPdSubmissionIds?: string;
  globalLinkSubmissionStatus?: string;
  submissionStatusHidden?: boolean;
  globalLinkDueDate?: Date;
  globalLinkDueCalendar?: Calendar;
  globalLinkDueDateText?: string;
  completedLocales?: string;
  completedLocalesTooltip?: string;
  xliffResultDownloadNotAvailable?: boolean;
}

workflowPlugins._.addTranslationWorkflowPlugin<GccViewModel>({

  workflowName: "TranslationGlobalLink",

  nextStepVariable: "translationAction",

  startWorkflowFormExtension: {
    computeViewModel() {
      const defaultDueDate = getDefaultDueDate();
      if (!defaultDueDate) {
        return undefined;
      }

      return {
        globalLinkDueCalendar: defaultDueDate
      }
    },

    saveViewModel(viewModel: GccViewModel): Record<string, any> {
      return {
        globalLinkDueDate: viewModel.globalLinkDueCalendar,
      };
    },

    remotelyValidatedViewModelFields: ["globalLinkDueCalendar"],

    fields: [
      DateTimeField({
        label: Gcc_properties.TranslationGlobalLink_submission_dueDate_key,
        tooltip: Gcc_properties.TranslationGlobalLink_submission_dueDate_tooltip,
        value: Binding("globalLinkDueCalendar")
      }),
    ],
  },

  ...
})

          

Example 9.120. Start workflow form extension for Global Link Translation Workflow


The type of the form extension's view model is given as a simple interface. For the start form extension, only the property globalLinkDueCalendar is relevant, the other ones come into play in the following section where running workflow forms are considered.

To customize the start workflow form for a custom workflow, the parameter WorkflowPlugin#startWorkflowFormExtension<M> of the WorkflowPlugin<M> is used. It has the following parameters itself:

computeViewModel(): M

A function that computes the view model for the extension's fields. As it is a start workflow form extension, there is no workflow running yet and so the function receives no parameter. It can be used to initialize the view model values with default parameters. In the example above, the view model for the start form extension only consists of one property globalLinkDueCalendar. Its value is computed by the function getDefaultDueDate(). It is important to note that the whole function computeViewModel() is embedded in a FunctionValueExpression (see Section 5.3.6, “Value Expressions”). So all utility functions like getDefaultDueDate() can be implemented dependency-tracked and as long as they do not deliver a value, the overall result can just be undefined.

saveViewModel(viewModel: M): Record<string, any>

A function that is called once the workflow has been created and that saves the current view model state of the start form extension to the workflow. Consequently, it receives the current view model state as input parameter and delivers a record as result. For each of the record's entries it has to hold that the key corresponds to the name of a process variable and that the value matches the type of the corresponding process variable. In Example 9.120, “Start workflow form extension for Global Link Translation Workflow ”, the globalLinkDueCalendar from the view model is saved to the globalLinkDueDate process variable of the created workflow.

fields

An array of the start form extension's fields. Fields are not defined as Ext JS components but in terms of a declarative API (part of CustomWorkflowAPI) that is independent from any UI framework. Currently, five field types are supported:

  • TextField

  • DateField

  • DateTimeField

  • CheckField

  • Button

All fields have the following properties:

  • value

  • label

  • disabled

  • hidden

  • tooltip

  • validationState

These properties can either be set directly or be defined as a two-way Binding to one of the view model properties. In the example from above, there is only one field in the start form extension, a DatetimeField: Label and tooltip are directly set while the value is bound to the view model's globalLinkDueCalendar property. Note that a DateTimeField's value can only be bound to a view model property of type Calendar. More examples of form extension fields are covered in the next section.

remotelyValidatedViewModelFields?: (keyof M)[]

An (optional) array of view model parameters that are part of the backend workflow validation (cf. Section 9.26.5, “Workflow Validation”). Changes to their values trigger a backend validation and the values are part of the validation's parameters.

viewModelValidator?: (viewModel: M) => WorkflowSetIssues

An (optional) function that carries out a client-side validation of the view model values. The WorkflowSetIssues that result from this computation are merged with the issues from the backend workflow validation.

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