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Hi All, I would like to know the back-end functioning of the below ap
mohammedz
Certified Associate Developer
over 8 years ago
Hi All,
I would like to know the back-end functioning of the below appian behaviour
When we click on "Create an Interface" in the the "Design view" we will shown some predefined templates. If you click on any templates lets say if we click "Form with sections" automatically a SAIL Code will be generated in "Expression View"
It clear that some SAIL Forms is hidden in the templates...
My Question here is
1) In what form the templates will be ??? Is it a JAR ? its an Internal API ?? or What is that ??
2) Can we place our own form in interface template ?
3) If it is a JAR or API in server where can we get the same ???
Appreciate your response..!!
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Stefan Helzle
A Score Level 3
over 8 years ago
As far as I know there is no official method to modify this.
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sikhivahans
over 8 years ago
@mohammedz Hi, to the best of my knowledge, neither we would know the nature and location of the file nor we can have our templates(atleast for now). It's just about what Appian exposes to us at the moment and allows the capability to do certain things. I guess that's how the proprietary stuff works.
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mohammedz
Certified Associate Developer
over 8 years ago
Thanks Sikhi...
Any idea of what it will be ... JAR ? API ? Or anything else ?
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Stefan Helzle
A Score Level 3
over 8 years ago
If you really want to dig into this, check <APPIAN_HOME>\\ear\\suite.ear\\web.war\\WEB-INF\\bundled-apps\\system.zip and search for "SYSTEM_SYSRULES_expd_template_exampleForm.xml"
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mohammedz
Certified Associate Developer
over 8 years ago
Thanks stefanh791 ... let me check this ..!!!!
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Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 8 years ago
You cannot add your templates precisely but you can always use the option to build an interface from an existing one and that existing one can be your own template.
Simply create your own and out them in a folder so that developers can select to create their interfaces as copies of those and star working from a "template".
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Karthik
over 8 years ago
@stefanh791, I am not sure whether this is an okay thing to do so, however, this info is quite interesting :) Thanks
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Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 8 years ago
Team, keep in mind that everything bundled with Appian is proprietary code. Appian is not an open source platform, so let's not reverse Engineer nor 'decompile' proprietary code to stay under license agreement.
Even further, anything that's not public is subject to change without notice, so whatever you see now, can be completely different in a future version and touching base product files can result in putting your system in an unsupported state.
Even though opening a ZIP file is not a risky action, I understand that, it opens doors for what I describe above which is not something a certified practitioner should be recommending in my humble opinion.
Let's instead all together cooperate as a big community with alternative approaches that are license complaint and that encourage creativity and lateral thinking.
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mohammedz
Certified Associate Developer
over 8 years ago
Thanks Eduardo.... Its not like we goanna reverse engineer.. Just i would like to know how actually behavior is defined in Appian ...
Since in our day to day development we are using the interface i would like to know hidden engineering...
Just for knowledge perspective .... Thanks Again !!!!!
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Stefan Helzle
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over 8 years ago
Thanks Eduardo. My intention was not to offend anyone or recommend use of private API. For me this was just an interesting view on Appian. I strongly do recommend to use ONLY public API and the features that are officially supported.
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