There following questions and steps are to help you plan and develop a plugin to fulfil a custom requirement.
1. What is the problem?
You have a custom requirement and you found that none of the built-in plugins provided by Joget Workflow nor plugins available in Marketplace are able to fulfill your requirement.
Example: Download a PDF version of a form when click on a button in a list.
2. What is your idea to solve the problem?
Refer to the Plugin Types that supported by Joget Workflow, find the most appropriate plugin type that can help you to fulfill the custom requirement.
Example: Do a Datalist Action plugin to generate form PDF.
3. What is the input needed for your plugin?
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4. What is the output and expected outcome of your plugin?
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5. Is there any resources/API that can be reuse?
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6. Prepare your development environment
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7. Just code it!
a. Look for a tutorial of the same plugin type or a similar community plugin for reference
b. Extending the abstract class of a plugin type
c. Implement all the abstract methods
d. Manage the dependency library of your plugin
e. Make your plugin internationalization (i18n) ready
g. Register your plugin to Felix Framework
h. Build it and testing
8. Take a step further, share it or sell it
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