best way to save users in a column in appian

RE: best way to save users in a column in appian

anupamk0002 — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 05:33:40 GMT

To save additional information in database like username, datetime etc who have modified your record through action or related action you can capture those details from process model process properties and save those details.

RE: best way to save users in a column in appian

Chris — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:51:58 GMT

We take an approach similar to Mike, except with a varchar() field to house our employee IDs (user profile custom field 1 in our case) This way when the username changes (marriage, company integration, etc), we can still reference the employee by their ID, which does not change.

RE: best way to save users in a column in appian

Peter Lewis — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 18:01:40 GMT

Yeah you can't make a "user" type for a column, but in most places things automatically cast from text to user. For example, you can have a user picker that saves a selected user directly to a text field.

RE: best way to save users in a column in appian

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:28:54 GMT

I usually just make a text column in the table called "modifiedBy", which stores the user's text-based username.

RE: best way to save users in a column in appian

Deepak Shinde — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:08:42 GMT

we need to record who saved/acted on a certain record in our database.

RE: best way to save users in a column in appian

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:04:39 GMT

Can you provide a little explanation for what you mean by "save users in a column"?