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!

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

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.