Creating a Backend Task with Flowable | How-To | Flowable | 2025

A rich out-of-the-box palette is provided by Flowable. In some use-cases, you might want to have your own custom components to simplify the life of modelers. In this video, Valentin Zickner, describes how you can add a palette item/stencil to Flowable Design which is backed by your own Java implementation in Flowable Work. ▶ Additional resource: https://documentation.flowable.com/latest/howto/howto/howto-create-custom-backend-task ▶ Table of contents: 00:00 Introduction 00:54 Creating a process model 02:33 Save, publish and try it out 03:08 The goal and prerequisites 05:02 Creating a palette item 09:08 Defining the properties of the palette item 13:02 Restarting Flowable Design to apply the patched palette 13:44 Improving the palette 14:08 Replacing the service task with the custom component 14:38 Starting a new process with the custom component and analyzing the error 15:14 Adding the implementation for the custom service task 16:14 Accessing the attributes from the palette 17:54 Doing the actual calculation 18:07 Writing the result back to the process/case 18:29 Restarting Flowable Work 18:43 Re-executing the process instance execution 18:55 Wrap-up ▶ More about the Flowable Platform: https://www.flowable.com/product/platform ▶ Get a free 30-day trial: https://go.flowable.com/yt/flowable-trial ▶ Subscribe to our channel to see new videos first: https://www.youtube.com/Flowable ▶ Visit our website to know more: https://www.flowable.com ► You can also find us on: LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3teeVeq Twitter: https://bit.ly/3aqgyze or @Flowablebpm ► About Flowable Flowable is the intelligent business automation platform to automate end-to-end processes. From simple and repetitive, to complex and unpredictable scenarios – transform your business by connecting systems, data and people. Being open and low-code, Flowable enables organizations to build tailored applications at speed and at scale, optimizing resources and reducing time to value, while maintaining full regulatory compliance. https://www.flowable.com