# Flowable-form: how to return the form properties to user

**URL:** <https://forum.flowable.org/t/flowable-form-how-to-return-the-form-properties-to-user/2489>\
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**Created:** [September 1, 2018, 8:56am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/flowable-form-how-to-return-the-form-properties-to-user/2489 "2018-09-01T08:56:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![ww824306](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@ww824306](https://forum.flowable.org/u/ww824306)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 8:56am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/flowable-form-how-to-return-the-form-properties-to-user/2489/1 "2018-09-01T08:56:59Z")

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hi,  
I start a flow, then i can get the formKey of this user task, but the form properties is null.

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**Author:** ![n0mer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.flowable.org/n0mer/32/754_2.png) [@n0mer](https://forum.flowable.org/u/n0mer)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/flowable-form-how-to-return-the-form-properties-to-user/2489/2 "2018-09-02T20:53:23Z")

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probably you need to query form engine for form by formKey, not the task itself.

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**Author:** ![ww824306](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@ww824306](https://forum.flowable.org/u/ww824306)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/flowable-form-how-to-return-the-form-properties-to-user/2489/3 "2018-09-05T03:02:28Z")

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thanks, i resolved it by `SQL`.😂

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**Author:** ![arpit.agrawal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@arpit.agrawal](https://forum.flowable.org/u/arpit.agrawal)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/flowable-form-how-to-return-the-form-properties-to-user/2489/4 "2018-09-05T07:02:17Z")

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Hi,

Form Properties are the old way of attaching fields to task. If you use the flowable forms to attach fields to user task, then you will get formProperties Null because these properties no longer attached to user task but a seperate form is attached (by form key) and then you have to query the form to get all the fields. You can do something like this to get form and its properties attached to task.

> Map\<String, FormField\> formFields = taskService.getTaskFormModel(“taskId”)  
> .allFieldsAsMap();

Now, You can iterate over this map keys to get FormField Class Object for each Field key and get its properties from [here](https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine/blob/eeebfd23af3571741b60e3f663f17c0ecc50a812/modules/flowable-form-model/src/main/java/org/flowable/form/model/FormField.java).

Hope this helps.

Thank You,  
Arpit Agrawal

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**Author:** ![ZeyKon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.flowable.org/zeykon/32/955_2.png) [@ZeyKon](https://forum.flowable.org/u/ZeyKon)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 4:00am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/flowable-form-how-to-return-the-form-properties-to-user/2489/5 "2018-12-11T04:00:23Z")

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![image](https://cdck-file-uploads-canada1.s3.dualstack.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/flex035/uploads/flowable/original/1X/7ad562214d75d4058ffcf477b0fb2e255de22520.png) 希望可以帮到你。

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**Author:** ![binishprab](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.flowable.org/binishprab/32/1649_2.png) [@binishprab](https://forum.flowable.org/u/binishprab)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 4:20am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/flowable-form-how-to-return-the-form-properties-to-user/2489/6 "2020-03-06T04:20:45Z")

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Could you suggest which query you used - not sure where these form properties are stored ? thx

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**Author:** ![joram](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.flowable.org/joram/32/26_2.png) [@joram](https://forum.flowable.org/u/joram)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/flowable-form-how-to-return-the-form-properties-to-user/2489/7 "2020-03-14T14:08:01Z")

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See [https://flowable.com/open-source/docs/bpmn/ch08-Forms/#form-properties](https://flowable.com/open-source/docs/bpmn/ch08-Forms/#form-properties)

If you can elaborate on your use case, we probably can point to more specific docs.