How to send data from one interface to other?

RE: How to send data from one interface to other?

davel001150 — Wed, 11 May 2022 18:34:27 GMT

For a little bit more detail:

Interface1 saves customerID to table,

Interface 2 refreshes from DB every 30 seconds, or when person using interface furiously mashes "refresh button"

After refresh on Interface 2, it grabs customerID that was saved some time less than 30 seconds ago.

This is actually a classic anti-pattern of using a relational database as a messaging system when there's far better approaches available to you. It's just that there aren't far better approaches with Appian. You can't get data out of a form and into the PM without submitting it, and you can't get data from a PM into a form except for when the form loads.

If Appian did change this, however, we could have real-time collaboration between two people on two machines doing the same task and seeing each other's updates live in the same form. Think excel sheet on shared drive with multiple people completing it at the same time.

RE: How to send data from one interface to other?

Dimitris Soulovaris — Tue, 10 May 2022 14:56:52 GMT

What you can actually do is, to save that customer id in a table from the first interface and load it from the other interface.

Sending something from one interface to another it doesn't make sense in Appian as Stefan and Mike already mentioned.

RE: How to send data from one interface to other?

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 10 May 2022 14:08:13 GMT

As stefan already mentioned, this request doesn't really make sense in context of what Appian is / can do.

[quote userid="89274" url="~/discussions/f/data/24556/how-to-send-data-from-one-interface-to-other"]send a customer id from one interface to another [/quote]

Can you provide a bit more description as to what you want to see, perhaps from a user experience perspective?

RE: How to send data from one interface to other?

Stefan Helzle — Tue, 10 May 2022 06:48:57 GMT

The idea of Appian is to implement business processes using process models. This is not just a platform to somehow connect user interfaces.

What exactly do you want to achieve? A wizard style UI? What is the goal of "sending" data to the other UI?