How to build a custom code review tool in Appian.

community.appian.com/.../aquaman

interesting. do you have experience with that?

AQuAMan? I hope so...I built it!

AQuAMan? I hope so...I built it!

what's your approach(Design) for building that tool.

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

Thank you very much for your help.