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Overview

Forms developed with TIBCO Forms are typically associated with a user task of a business process and used in the context of TIBCO iProcess Workspace (Browser) or TIBCO iProcess Workspace (Browser) Components to capture and/or display the user data. However, at times there is a need to generate customized user interfaces for user tasks that run outside the context of TIBCO iProcess Workspace (Browser), or to display data that is coming from external data channels, like TIBCO BusinessWorks web services, along with BPM data. This document describes a programatic approach to instantiating and launching TIBCO Forms applications from a standalone General Interface application. The standalone General Interface application may be used to interact with Business Process data along with other external data channels like TIBCO BusinessWorks web services.

Restrictions

The interface described in this Tech Note applies only to the use of TIBCO Forms 2.x. The interface will change in later versions of TIBCO Forms. Any applications using TIBCO Forms in this way will have to be updated to conform to the new interface.

Note that the usage specified in this document is supported only in the context of using TIBCO iProcess suite of software, for example, for collecting data to start a business process or displaying external data referenced by the business process. This interface should not be used in any other context.

Prerequisites

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the General Interface programming model, including the creation and manipulation of jsx objects (GI 3.9.0 and onwards), the container model, the event model, and making use of GI add-ins. Please refer to the GI documentation for more information.

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