Forms: object and process

We have two kind of forms. Object and process.
An object form is associated with a resource and a process form is associated with a process.
But, I still have a few doubts.
But what is the difference between them in functionality point of view. Where exactly does process form come into picture. Can we display it?
Where should we use which form?

Each resource has an associated object and process form.
Object form is basically used when requesting a resource for provisioning for accepting data from user. Now before provisioning activity gets triggered, this data is passed to process form to execute provisioning tasks. The data flow/mapping between object and process form is done thr' Data Sink tab in process definition.
The permissions for both object and process form can be set in Form Designer->Object permissions tab.
Besides, the process form data can be "editted" for re-try process tasks that have failed/rejected.
Note: you can also have data pre-populated in process form thr' access policies. The same holds true for object form but having data pre-populated in process form makes more sense. This holds good when having provisioning of resources being triggered thr' role based access policies.

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