Where is Query Rules?

RE: Where is Query Rules?

Sunil Mohan — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:25:08 GMT

Thank you Peter for your response. Am really happy to see a reply from you, your Video Tutorials in Academy really helped me a lot to become an Appian Designer.

Have a nice day !

RE: Where is Query Rules?

Peter Lewis — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:02:11 GMT

There isn't a way to bulk change existing query rules to a!queryEntity() because they are set up differently: Query Rules are Design objects, while a!queryEntity() is used in an expression.

That being said, your query rules will continue to work even if the query rule designer has been deprecated. If I were you, I probably would not worry about updating all 100+ rules. You could probably just update them as needed whenever you edit an object that uses them.

RE: Where is Query Rules?

Sunil Mohan — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 06:36:15 GMT

Let's say a system got 100 + query rules created and been used in various design objects like (Process model - Script Tasks/IO Nodes, Expression Rules, Interfaces).Creating Query Entity and replacing them in such huge scenario is a hectic manual job. Is there any easy way (or) tool provided by Appian in such case ?

RE: Where is Query Rules?

robertd0002 — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 21:46:32 GMT

That is it! You are the man! Thanks for getting back to me. It is funny how little things like this can trip you up when you are learning the platform. I need to take some more courses on SAIL. Thanks!

RE: Where is Query Rules?

Mike Schmitt — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 14:42:09 GMT

Does the query expression rule return the ".data" property of the query result, or the whole datasubset? If not, try adding ".data" after your test input query as that's the most likely reason I can think of for your issue pictured.

RE: Where is Query Rules?

robertd0002 — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 14:38:37 GMT

I have a related question - are you able to answer this?

I am not able to invoke the Expression Rule / Query Rule for my summary view.

1. I created the Expression Rule using the query editor and tested it (called TA_GetAircraftById)

=> tests fine using id "1"

2. I created the TA_AircraftSummaryView

3. I test the AircraftSummaryView and try to use the expression "rule!TA_GetAircraftById(1)" for the test data (SEE NULL RESULTS)

Any ideas??

I've tried looking at the summary view for the record and it doesn't work either.

RE: Where is Query Rules?

baji mekala — Sat, 11 May 2019 07:05:53 GMT

Hi,

- Submit Button Component

- Query Rules

- HTTP File Upload Smart Service

has been deprecated in 19.1 version. so check Appian Documention.

RE: Where is Query Rules?

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 10 May 2019 18:00:09 GMT

Thanks for the explanation - luckily as far as Appian is concerned it seems like there are various options for other implementations that would handle that; i've personally never needed this functionality myself though.

RE: Where is Query Rules?

benjamins0003 — Fri, 10 May 2019 17:18:09 GMT

Ah, easy as pie. Thank you, Mike

RE: Where is Query Rules?

PRATEEK BHATTI — Fri, 10 May 2019 17:10:23 GMT

Suppose you have a CDT having a field with @Transient annotation and in the process flow you are doing some calculation to get a result and will save this result in this field so that that calculated data can remain inside CDT but you don't require this calculated data to be saved in database while storing CDT to database for some security reasons, in this case having @Transient annotation on a field will serve the purpose.

Hope this helps!!

RE: Where is Query Rules?

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 10 May 2019 17:03:27 GMT

You would want to make your Query Entity rule accept inputs corresponding to all of those values, and preferably, query correctly whether or not each value is passed in (note that over-filtering may result in a returned list of zero people, depending on the particular data setup). Assuming that you can derive Appian usernames from the result of the query, you could probably have your form map an array of usernames to a Rule Input when a submit button is clicked - and then pass that array out to your process model, where you could then call a subprocess for each user and assign the task therein to that user. It's a complex use case and a lot depends on your particular implementation and requirements.

RE: Where is Query Rules?

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 10 May 2019 17:00:01 GMT

Out of curiosity, what use case would require @Transient in the CDT? I've never run across this.

RE: Where is Query Rules?

PRATEEK BHATTI — Fri, 10 May 2019 16:54:12 GMT

Hi Mike,
There is one case where Query Entity seems incompatible as compared to Query Rule and that is when @Transient annotation is used in XSD because queryEntity fails when an XSD has a field marked as @Transient as described in below KB article.

https://community.appian.com/support/w/kb/659/kb-1404-queryentity-fails-when-an-xsd-has-a-field-marked-as-transient

Thanks

RE: Where is Query Rules?

benjamins0003 — Fri, 10 May 2019 16:50:46 GMT

I would like to be able to select from the three drop-downs show belown (Status, LMI, Structure Type) and have the form sent to the relevant applicants who are correlated with the values I select. I heard I may need to use the query entity I made to do this, but I'm not sure how.

RE: Where is Query Rules?

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 10 May 2019 16:48:34 GMT

What "filter" are you trying to create & where?

RE: Where is Query Rules?

benjamins0003 — Fri, 10 May 2019 16:47:35 GMT

Okay, sounds good. I created my query rule for "status" (shown below). This seems to be working correctly. Do you guys know how to use this to create the filter? Thank you.

RE: Where is Query Rules?

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 10 May 2019 16:43:35 GMT

Prateek is correct. Anyway you wouldn't want to create a query rule anymore - Query Entity rules (created within an expression rule generally) can do anything Query Rules would do plus more - and are a ton more flexible all-around.

RE: Where is Query Rules?

PRATEEK BHATTI — Fri, 10 May 2019 16:41:49 GMT

Hi,

Query rule has been deprecated in Appian 19.1 version.
Please refer below URL for more info:
https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/19.1/Appian_Release_Notes.html#deprecations