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  • Author: Appian Corporation
  • Type: Plug-in (Function & Smart Service)
  • Support: This plug-in or utility is not supported by the author. The content is free to use with a licensed product, but it is made available as-is and Community supported.
  • Industry: All Industries
  • Compatible Version(s): 21.1+, 22.1
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  • Cost: Free
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Overview

When building an application with the intent for re-use, you often want the ability to make it easy for the developers using your components. These rules and smart services make it easier to create a good experience for those developers by allow you to query for rules and constants, decouple your code from your callers, and even create rules and constants.

Key Features & Functionality

Smart Services

  • Add Objects to Application: Given an application and UUIDs, adds objects to an application
  • Create Constant: Creates a constant
  • Create Rule: Creates a rule

Functions

  • fn!areGroupsInApp: Given an application and a set of groups, returns an array of boolean indicating whether the groups are in the app
  • fn!evaluateConstantByName: Given a constant's name, returns its value
  • fn!getRuleReference: Given a rule's name, returns a reference to that rule for future evaluation
  • fn!queryContent: Search for rules and constants
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