Connecting Forms to Other Laserfiche Products

In the Laserfiche tab of the Forms Configuration page, you can specify the Workflow Server that Forms will use for service tasks that start workflows, the Discussions site that Forms will use for the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) feature.

Notification Service

Connect your Laserfiche Forms Server to a Laserfiche Notification Service. This service will receive updates from Laserfiche Forms Routing Service and send the updates via Laserfiche Notification Hub Service to make real-time updates to a user's task list

To specify a Notification Service for Laserfiche Forms to use

  1. Open the Forms Configuration page and click Laserfiche in the navigation.
  2. In the Laserfiche Notification Service Server field, type the name of the machine hosting the Laserfiche Notification Master Service. Make sure to include the port value. The port value can be configured by viewing the Laserfiche.PushNotificationService.Master.Host.exe.config configuration file in the Notification Service installation folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Laserfiche\Laserfiche Notification\Service).

Configuring Laserfiche Forms to Communicate with Workflow

For Laserfiche Forms to communicate with Workflow, you must tell Forms which Workflow server to use. In addition, the Workflow server must have its Web Services feature installed and configured to connect to Laserfiche Forms.

To specify Workflow servers for Laserfiche Forms to use

  1. Open the Forms Configuration page and click Laserfiche in the navigation.
  2. Click Add Workflow Server.
  3. In the Laserfiche Workflow Server field, type the name of the machine hosting the Workflow server you want Laserfiche Forms to use. If the Workflow server uses a port other than the default, specify the port after the server name (e.g., workflowServer:port).
  4. To secure network communications between Forms and Workflow, select Use TLS connection.
  5. Click Test Connection to verify that Forms can reach the selected server.
  6. If multiple Workflow servers will be used, repeat steps 2 through 5 above.
  7. Click Save.

Configuring Discussions

Connect your Forms Server to the Discussions to display frequently asked questions next to a form. This pane contains questions and answers associated with a specific group in Discussions and can serve as an invaluable tool for answering users' most common questions.

Note: Only forms that start a process (i.e., the forms specified in Message Start Events) can display the FAQ pane.

To configure a connection to Discussions

  1. Open the Forms Configuration page and click Laserfiche in the left navigation.
  2. In the Discussions site URL text box, type the URL of your Discussions site in the format //machine.com/SocialBPM.
  3. Optionally, select Use TLS connection. If you configure your Forms Server to use TLS, use TLS for Discussions.
  4. Click Save.