Best Practices

I've raised these issues to Appian in a support email, and no response was returned, and I have not seen any improvement in the problem in the year since. I've spotted two major issues with the Appian automation framework, which are just lousy coding and must be resolved. Problem 1: The Tear Down Method Currently Appian introduces the teardown method as a step in your feature file. This is a problem for two reasons.  1. Ending the test execution early will never reach the teardown method. 2. A test that fails before it reaches the teardown method will not be adequately torn down. Impact: When you do not tear down the Chrome or Ghecko driver, you have two major issues, one minor annoyance and the other more significant. First, the browser will not close. If you run the test ten times, you will have ten browsers open. This alone may not be a big deal since you can close them, but the bigger problem is that the Chrome driver instance will still be alive in your processe

I have a string something like "***-***" I just want to check if the string contains "-"?What is the best way to achieve that?

I want batching for looping process suppose i have 1000 id's and i want to execute loop with 200 batchsize. a!forEach( items: local!id, expression:fvi!item )

Hello! I just want to know if it even possible modify this menu: Because we need a navigation tag (role=”navigation” ) or something similar and more accesibility control, but we don't find anything.

Hi All, We have an application, where users can book the seats before going to office. Currently application working like - If user A books seat 100 for Date: 20-May-2023 and user B cannot book the same seat 100 for same day Date:20-May-2023 here, if seat 100 is already booked by other user than we are not displaying the seat 100 value in dropdown. We got one issue in production that, same seat 100 is booked by user A and B for same day 20-May-2023 at the exact time which is observed in process variable. How to handle this to avoid booking same seat for same day? We are calling process on click of Book button, here in process model activity chaining is enabled before Write to Data store entity. My doubt is whether this activity chaining causing this issue? Please suggest if any solution is available.

Hi Experts,  Can someone help me to understand why Appian sets the CHARACTER SET as utf8mb3 for the varchar column even though we have CHARACTER SET utf8mb4, Using Appian 22.4 cloud instance  Thanks, Gaurav

What is the recommended best practice for Search Record List Limits from a table? Are 500,000 records or less acceptable?

I have 120 rows in array but i want to loop only first 100 rows using foreach function. Please advise.

Hi Experts, Which one of the above mentioned datatype would be advisable while storing a datetime value in DB and what will be the advantage of one over other while using it in APPIAN. Thanks, Gaurav Singh

how can I prepopulate the fields of current task with previous completed task details?

Hi All, how can we see the tasks that completed by user it was not captured in the monitor and in the DB? Many thanks

We have MicroFocus 12.56 v of Load Runner / Performance Center for load testing. However, Web HTTP protocol is not at all recording any client - server communications when we try to test the Appian application. Any suggestions pls. Thanks

Hi, I understand that Appian has a JMeter version which can be efficiently used for Performance Testing. Can anybody please share the link for JMeter tool designed for Appian performance testing. Thanks in advance.  Please note I am using Appian version 22.4 at the moment in our organization. 

Hi all. Googling this question brings up valid suggestions regarding the use of automated testing for repetitive functions, using manual testing for UI tests, etc. However, I was interested in perhaps some best practices that take into account more tangible factors.  For example, is there a sweet spot for data entry values that make the decision more straight-forward? Let's say I have a process flow that requires data entries in multiple forms. For example, I need to test the 5th form in a flow, each form has 25 data entry points. Is it worth going with automated testing? What if it's the 3rd form with 10 data entry points? Looking for some best practices here or maybe your experiences with this kind of decision. Thank you.

How to use Tempo effective? Why Tempo shows me reports that were created just to allow interface to be visible on page (in Appian 20.4 you had to create report to add such report as page to site. Why Tempo shows me tasks on processes to which I do not have access?

I have a table with value column. Already I have implemented download link in my report based on the table. I need to add a new column with formatted value, front end I have done this, but download part, how can I manage(I dnt want to change backend table)

Hi Guys, In my project, we currently did a webapi to get the base 64 from system and pass into different system as base64. Due to this in prod we are facing large memory sizing and I came to know instead of passing bas64 we have a option to pass todocument to reduce the memory size . However, my question how other system can read if we are passing document? Please confirm the approach is possible or else suggest some other approach. Thanks, Pradeep Sridharan

As there is so much white space shown .. how to prevent in interface ,extra white space

How to add social media icons and when we click on it , it should direct to a particular page?

Hi All, I came across a question where the environment should get upgraded to latest version. Should we start upgrading the higher environments first and go down to lower environment upgrade or vice-versa, and what will be the impact in both cases. Can someone help in knowing this impact?

Hi Experts, I have a requirement where I need to store 100 phone numbers in a given field, i.e Targets for now. And then to filter the data on all the columns considering if user searches with 555 then 2nd record should be returned Currently I was using a single table with structure as shown below TargetID (num) OrderID (num) Targets(varchar) 1 1 +91-9999999999+91-9999999999+91-8888888888 2 1 +91-9999999999+91-9999999999+91-8888888888+91-5555555555 Now, due to some performance issues, we need to get that targets column to be moved to a separate table and store all the phone numbers as a separate row, as shown in below tables TargetID OrderID 1 1 2 1 id TargetID Targets 1 1 +91-9999999999 2 1 +91-9999999999 3 1 +91-8888888888 4 2 +91-9999999999 5 2 +91-9999999999 6 2 +91-8888888888 7 2 +91-5555555555 Kindly suggest as how this can be implement, do we need to use nested CDT or if there is any other way possible. Thanks, Gaurav Singh

Hello guys, I failed for the developer exam for the second time now. I studied for the Appian developer test for 180 hours, but i still failed the exam TWICE now. I'am lost i feel like i know everything but the way the questions are formulated is very hard. I just want to review the exam so i can maybe change my studying style.  i used the exam checklist, i studied the developer course, i took the practice test 12 times and i studied the appian documentation. ANY TIPS? thanks.

What are the best storage capabilities of Appian?

Hi all, This is my uses case. I have a reference table with 2 columns (id(PK) and description)  with all the possible statuses: 1 - Ongoing; 2 - Completed, ..... I need to insert an entity case, that it has a FK to that statuses. For instance, idCase = 1, idStatus = 1. So my question is, what is the best approach to map the value (Ongoing, Completed, ...)  into my case CDT? My initial approach is to have a CONSTANT with the status values: "Ongoing", "Completed" and get the id by a query rule to the table status. Thanks in advance.

Hi all, I have to deal with metadata on my processes. Most of them upper 20 parameters. My engine rule Will need to Fetch the specific parameter and its value coming from interfaces, data bases or integrations. So I wonder what It is best way to deal with them for performance: 1) create a CDT with upper 20 fields (and It could be defined more than 50 fields) 2) create a CDT with 2 fields: key and value and work as a list. 3) Define a Map as any type objects. Thank you.