External Task Forms in Camunda 7 – Complete Guide with Examples
External Task Forms are used when your human task UI lives outside Camunda Tasklist — such as: ✔ Your own Angular/React/Java web app ✔ Mobile app ✔ External portal ✔ Microservice UI ✔ ERP/CRM screens Instead of using Tasklist forms, you build your own UI , and Camunda provides the API to: Fetch the task Fetch task details Fetch form fields Complete the task Submit variables This is the modern approach for enterprise UI integration . ⭐ What Are External Task Forms? External Task Forms are not forms inside Camunda . They are forms that you host , and Camunda exposes APIs so your UI can: ✔ Get form variables ✔ Retrieve form schema (if needed) ✔ Submit form data ✔ Complete the task So the UI is 100% yours, but task lifecycle is controlled by Camunda . When to Use External Task Forms? ✔ You don’t want to use Camunda Tasklist ✔ You have your own front-end application ✔ You need complete UI freedom (React/Vue/Angular/Flutter) ✔ You want branded UI th...