Old process instances to use new version of a CDT

RE: Old process instances to use new version of a CDT

Chris — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:08:27 GMT

That is correct, the in-flight process instances will continue to use the CDT type as it was at start time.

RE: Old process instances to use new version of a CDT

Arun Theja Muthyalu — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 04:02:48 GMT

Thanks for the response. Based on your suggestion, it looks like users will not be able to update the value of this changed field on the in-flight instances. Is that correct?

RE: Old process instances to use new version of a CDT

Chris — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:50:45 GMT

As far as I know we do not have a mechanism to update the CDT type of running instances. The 2 related functions that come to mind for updating running process instances are Appian Process Upgrade, and the IFM Manager plugin. However, both note that they will not modify CDT types.

For similar situations in the past we have done things such as, create a new field with the new decimal type, and add a trigger on the DB table to udpate for older versions, then all reporting can reference the new field only.