Small bug in Appian Sub Process Node

RE: Small bug in Appian Sub Process Node

Robert Shankin — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 04:37:32 GMT

I'd classify this as a useful enhancement request rather than a bug.
If enhance accordingly, this may somewhat improve designers ability to deliver faster.
Consider opening a ticket with Appian Support in order to share your findings, and to make your case as to why this would be a valuable product enhancement.

As shwetad noted, you can always have the child process open in another tab to reference the nature of the child process's parameters.
Further, consider using more informative variable names to give you an indication as to whether or not a parameter accepts multiples. For example, instead of "accountNumber" or "locationCode" use "accountNumbers" or "locationCodes" (plural) when the field supports multiples.
Then you'll have a clue in the parent process whether or not the fields support multiples.

This doesn't help much with requiredness.
I'm not saying you should, but you could always extend the variable naming convention to use a "_reqd" suffix, or similar, if it's that important to you.

RE: Small bug in Appian Sub Process Node

chetany — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 09:29:42 GMT

Please click on the "Refresh" option that you see on the subprocess node.
Sometimes, the child process model may have been published and some parameters changed.
The parent process model may not have got refreshed automatically.
I think if you refresh on the subprocess node, it will show the updated parameters. (and also show if they are multiple)

RE: Small bug in Appian Sub Process Node

shwetad7106 — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 06:14:29 GMT

Hi,

Yes, you are right. We can't check it is multiple or not, we have to go to that sub process and then check, and accordingly pass the values.

RE: Small bug in Appian Sub Process Node

chandu — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 14:57:29 GMT

Hi Anil,

Good one, I feel that Appian can look into this, since giving required indicator to the Input variables in the subprocess node lets the designer to configure Mandatorily.