About E-form Integration with Tasks
The webMethods product suite provides electronic forms integration to enable the use of e-forms with your tasks. There are two ways of enabling e-form support for tasks:
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Basic e‑form support can be implemented by storing e‑form templates and instances in or in a file system or web server. For more information and a list of the supported e-form types, see
Implementing E-form Support for BPM.
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Fully featured e‑form support can be enabled with
webMethods Content Service Platform; for more information, see
Implementing webMethods Content Service Platform for BPM.
To be able to work with e-forms in tasks, the following preliminary actions are necessary:
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Create a repository for your e-form instances and templates.
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Configure a
webMethods e-form environment in
My webMethods and deploy that environment to the
Integration Server host(s) where you will be creating your IS document types.
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Ensure that you have network connectivity between all of the host servers.
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Review various implementation issues for the supported e-form types.
For more details about these procedures and conceptual information about the use of e-forms in the webMethods product suite, see Implementing E-form Support for BPM or Implementing webMethods Content Service Platform for BPM, depending on your e‑form solution.
For more information about interacting with e-forms in tasks, see
Working with E-form Data in Tasks. For information about integrating task types with e-forms stored in a
webMethods Content Service Platform repository, see
webMethods BPM Task Development Help.