https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/data/35130/casting-constnat-name-to-constant-type-in-update-constnat-smart-serviceHi Champ, I have a use case where I am getting the constnat name (in text) and I have to pass that in Update constant service. But here the issue here is I am unable to pass the constnat name dynamically there. As the name is text type and it&#39;s expectingen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/136230?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 31 May 2024 20:44:24 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:6feb297b-7557-4ef6-9765-58d95f4b14a9Mike Schmitt<p>This is not a good idea at all.&nbsp; Constants (as well as rules, interfaces, etc) can now be re-named by any designer with sufficient editing access, and as such, if you were to work out some override in order to use this method of referencing a constant in this smart service, it would instantly break if it were ever renamed by a different designer (and there would be no warning to them or any other way to know they&#39;re about to break it).</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/136228?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 31 May 2024 19:03:04 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:1589810e-ba81-4657-99fe-fd60b76b9f58Jim Schweitzer<p>I had written a plugin to do this many years ago, (&quot;Constant Utilities&quot; - getConstantObjectByName() ) but looks like it&#39;s not available on the appmarket any more. Was pretty simple implementation, though.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/136196?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 31 May 2024 13:50:16 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:aee8cc32-addc-46f6-9c95-6e81a25d58d0David Jimenez <p>I&#39;m sorry, but YOu won&#39;t be able to do what you want.. Appian is limited in that way...IN the same way for example, you can&#39;t invoque an interface or subprocess passing the name or id as a parameter</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>