Appian Task

RE: Appian Task

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:52:22 GMT

There's no bre-built process locking to "apply", maybe i chose a misleading term. What I meant is that you should build your process to handle the locking for you.

In the process after any user attempts to click into the "task" in question, the very first thing that should happen is for the process to query the relevant DB table to check whether another user has already accessed the "task", and if so, divert the process flow to an alternate task explaining that this task is in use by another user. If not, the very next thing it should do is write the locking value immediately back to that same table, before proceeding on to the user input task or any other pre-task processing.

RE: Appian Task

Stefan Helzle — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:19:03 GMT

https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/25.1/Configuring_the_User_Input_Task.html

RE: Appian Task

Rahul009 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:03:20 GMT

Hi Stefan Helzle ,

can you please direct me to some tutorial to implement process task?

RE: Appian Task

Rahul009 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:17:50 GMT

Hi Mike Schmitt ,

Can you please help me how to apply process locking to avoid such instances?

RE: Appian Task

Mike Schmitt — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:46:02 GMT

If you build the process right, there's no way this can happen. I built one of these myself once and I tested with another person where we both sat and tried to click at exactly the same time, but still one of us got into the task and the other one was locked out due to the process locking. The process flow executes so quickly that milliseconds of difference is enough.

RE: Appian Task

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:58:24 GMT

Do you have a specific reason to go that way? I mean, Appian processes support the idea of "Tasks" directly.

RE: Appian Task

Rahul009 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:26:55 GMT

Hi ,

thank you for your response, but if two users click on task at the same time so they will be presented the same user input form. How to avoid this?

RE: Appian Task

VarunTejaGurrapu — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:12:36 GMT

Hi Rahul009 ,

I have a solution for this, please follow below steps :

User clicks the link
Start a process model
Checks if the task is already assigned :
- If Yes → show user “Task already assigned” or end process.
- If No -> Change the assigned_to to the process initiator .
- Check if the assignment succeeded.
- Move forward and assign the task.

Note :

Make sure the assigned_to column is NULL by default.
Consider placing a unique constraint on task_id + assigned_to if you want stricter DB rules.

Hope this helps you!!!