I’m not sure I would start a new project on Camunda 7 at this point, considering that it will be end-of-support in a couple of years. Important Update: Camunda 7 Community Edition End of Life Announced - #11 by mary_grace
There are other posts on the forum about modifying the configuration files for Camunda 7, which specify which file types to auto-scan for when the application server starts up. By default it only scans for .bpmn, .dmn, .bpmn2.xml (I think). You have to modify this to also scan for .form
Auto deployment has a number of issues, that I’m not sure that updating the configuration files to scan for.form files will solve. See also Automatic Resource Deployment | docs.camunda.org
You need to add in the .form to be scanned for in this configuration