Search/Lookup using External Datasource?

Q&A
1

On a form, is there a way to lookup something from an external datasource (using some filtering input), see the returned list of matching results, and select one of them as input to a form field?

For instance, if they needed to find a book (and we’ll store it’s ISBN in Bonitasoft):

  1. They’d type some portion of the book title (“Gone with the”, for example)
  2. Press ‘Search’
  3. Be presented with a list of matching titles from the external system
  4. Once the user picks one, have the selected row return the book’s ISBN for storage on the form

I’ve been looking around for a while now and the closest I can find is to redirect to an external URL but, I would really rather not have the user interface work that way.

Regards,
Lori

2

I think you are speaking about contingencies: http://documentation.bonitasoft.com/make-field-contingent-another-field

This is something available in our Subscription editions. However I know that some dev with Bonita BPM Community do that with some jquery. Although, this is a lot of custom workon the forms.

3

Thanks for the good idea, I will play around with it!