What is Best Approach To Design A Process Model?

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hi , Can Any One Explain 
 What Is A Best Approach For Design A Process In Process Model

kunals0003 · Accepted Answer

Hi Satheesh, 
 Here's the best practices checklist I maintain to design & review process models.

Data Management - Archive process instances in 3-7 days

Alerts: CONS!PROCESS_MODEL_ALERTS

Annotations should be clear and easy to understand for a citizen developer

Use keywoards like "Get", "Set", "Update","Remove" while adding labels to nodes

Concat the unique ID of main object that process is handling to display names of process instances

Security must be given to Administrators - Admin & All Users - Viewer

Processes should NOT have start forms if you want to map them on sites

Use spaces and Caps for first letters, as the common rule for typing titles in English for naming process models

User Input Forms should be Quick Tasks if we don&rsquo;t want tasks to appear in the default Appian Task List

Administrators should have admin permission over the Process Models folder. All Users are going to have Viewer access

Use swimlanes to categorize process nodes and make the workflow readable. Example: User, System, Approval flow, Database

Use activity chaining when you have to perform a set of actions together. Ex: Forms in chaining, actions

Syncronous sub-process: Use when you want the parent process to wait for the sub-process to finish before moving to next node

Asyncronous sub-process: Use when you don't want the parent process to wait and immediately move to the next node.

XOR, OR, AND, COMPLEX logical gates - Check if you have used the correct logical gates according to your use case

All updates have been logged in process model annotations

Dummy nodes between two logical gateways

Process flows are optimized and easy to understand

Models contain no more than 50 process variables

XOR gateways are used in front of MNI nodes to check for empty/null values

Process flow will always reach at least one terminating end event

Mike Schmitt · Answer

For alert settings, my top recommendation is NOT to use a group, or a constant that points to a group, but rather, an expression rule that then returns a group (by constant) and potentially other groups/users. This is far easier to maintain in the future, i.e. if you want to include extra groups in the notification chain, or exclude certain people, etc.

Abdurrahim · Answer

This link has the list of best practices for all kind of objects in Appian. 
 community.appian.com/.../design-review-checklist

Kevin Gajewski · Answer

satheesh Have you looked into Academy Online? There are many free, online courses there that would help you start to understand process model design. If you are looking for more advanced recommendations, then you should take a look at the Appian playbook here: https://community.appian.com/w/the-appian-playbook

What is Best Approach To Design A Process Model?

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