How to cast to type Process Model?

RE: How to cast to type Process Model?

Stewart Burchell — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:45:04 GMT

Just an observation - I've seen this sort of pattern implemented in other languages/platforms and whist it is clever and flexible it can be really hard to debug when it goes wrong. Given that you can't dynamically create a process model at run time (which would be a frightening prospect!) then I'm not sure why living with a static model isn't palatable? You have the option of using a Appian Decision to dynamically return references to Process Models based upon rules (although you can only execute the using the Start Process smart service and therefore asynchronously by default).

RE: How to cast to type Process Model?

sriramn — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:08:19 GMT

Hi Chanakya, thanks for the response.

RE: How to cast to type Process Model?

sriramn — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:07:26 GMT

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the response. I used a decision table for mapping process model with the application name, as it is equally configurable and faster when compared to retrieving from database.

RE: How to cast to type Process Model?

Mike Schmitt — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:36:38 GMT

a!startProcess() only needs the process model ID, and it doesn't need to be type cast. The additional hurdle is that the process model ID is environment-specific (as already mentioned by Chanakya) - so if you're writing anything to the DB, it should be the UUID, and then you can use either the Process Model Details plugin or the Content Tools plugin to get the process model ID per the UUID.

RE: How to cast to type Process Model?

Chanakya Volam — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:31:06 GMT

Hi sriramn

AFAIK there is no way to dynamically call a process by its ID from database and one more thing to add is when a process model is deployed to higher env the process model ID changes only thing that remains constant is the UUID