Form values
While the Workflow Designer supports form properties for backwards compatibility, use form references when designing user tasks. Form references offer enhanced configuration options.
Form values determine how a drop-down form property is used. You can also use form values to include help text to help the user understand what is being asked for with a specific form property.
You enter these attributes in the Form values section of a Custom form property type.

Drop-down form
- defaultFromResource
-
Determines the default value.
Possible values:
- true: The default value is the ID of the currently displayed resource.
- false: The default value is not the ID of the currently displayed resource.
- multiValue
-
Determines if the user can enter multiple values.
Possible values:
- true: The user can enter multiple values.
When you design a form with multiple selection components that are intended to be visible one at a time and configured to write to the same variable, ensure that the hidden component is also ignored to avoid conflicts that lead to errors. To achieve this, use a negated version of the Visible condition for the Ignored rendering property. You can negate an expression by prepending
!
to it. For example, if the Visible condition is{{visible}}
, set the Ignored condition to{{!visible}}
. - false: The user cannot enter multiple values. This is the default setting.
- true: The user can enter multiple values.
- proposedFixed
-
Determines if the user can select other values than the suggested ones.
Possible values:
- true: The user cannot enter other values than the suggested ones.
- false: The user can enter other values than the suggested ones.
Use only in conjunction with
proposedValues
. - proposedValues
-
Determines which values are suggested to the user.
Possible values: resource IDs
Use only in conjunction with
proposedFixed
.For a single value form, when the list of proposed values returns 10 or more items, the form adds a search box above the returned results.
Collibra guarantees optimal performance for up to 1,000 values. Performance might decline with larger volumes.
Asset drop-down form
You can restrict the assets that will appear in a drop-down list based on the communities or domains to which the assets belong and the status of the assets.
- communityId
- Restricts the assets to those that belong to specific communities, as determined by the community ID(s) you enter.
- conceptType
- Determines the asset types of the values in the drop-down list. The Name field contains the ID of an asset type. The drop-down values are all of the type of the provided asset type ID or of its subtypes.
- domainId
- Restricts the assets to those that belong to specific domains, as determined by the domain ID(s) you enter.
- statusId
- Restricts the assets to those that have specific statuses, as determined by the status ID(s) you enter.
Help text
- helpText
-
Displays help text directly below the form property.
Free text, including:
- Maximum of 255 characters, with special characters.
- Simple HTML styling (no JavaScript).
- Hyperlinks.
Applicable to all form property types except the following:
- enumeration
- checkbox
- radio button
Although not applicable to the three aforementioned static property types, it is applicable to the dynamic equivalents: dynamicEnum, dynamicCheckbox and dynamicRadiobox.