How to build a custom code review tool in Appian.

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I just wanted to build a custom code review tool to analyze the project and verify best practices are followed. kind of alternative for Appian Health check.

Stewart Burchell · Answer

The Design approach follows on from the following pieces of knowledge and philosophy: 
 
 Appian design objects are exported as XML files, bundled in a zip file (an Appian patch) 
 There is no Designer access to the Applications that you can create in Appian (i.e. you cannot see an Appian application as a record type) 
 it's all about "risk". So let each Application lead determine what is an acceptable "risk" for each attribute for object type 
 
 The Design approach: 
 
 implement a mechanism to "register" an Appian Application as a record in the tool 
 capture some global standards at the Application level 
 implement a framework that allows you to define tests against the different Appian object types 
 implement a framework that allows you:
 
 to examine each XML object, introspect into it in order to extract an attribute 
 run a "test" against the extracted attribute 
 record the result of that test

present the results of any "Patch Analysis" as a set of drillable charts, with the aim of directing the analyst to the areas that need attention 
 
 Hope this helps

How to build a custom code review tool in Appian.

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