What is Best Approach To Design A Process Model?

RE: What is Best Approach To Design A Process Model?

abdurrahim95 — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 03:37:13 GMT

This link has the list of best practices for all kind of objects in Appian.

community.appian.com/.../design-review-checklist

RE: What is Best Approach To Design A Process Model?

kunals0003 — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 07:48:58 GMT

Sorry my bad didn't read that one entirely before publishing :)

Thanks for the correction!

RE: What is Best Approach To Design A Process Model?

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 13:43:02 GMT

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.

RE: What is Best Approach To Design A Process Model?

Peter Lewis — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 13:37:14 GMT

This is not correct. If you plan to display an action as a page on a site, it must have a SAIL start form in order to display correctly. Please see the sites documentation for more details.

RE: What is Best Approach To Design A Process Model?

Musthafa — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 01:47:54 GMT

[quote userid="45339" url="~/discussions/f/process/17644/what-is-best-approach-to-design-a-process-model/69480"]Processes should NOT have start forms if you want to map them on sites[/quote]

Is it?

RE: What is Best Approach To Design A Process Model?

Kevin Gajewski — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:53:40 GMT

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

RE: What is Best Approach To Design A Process Model?

gayathris876948 — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 05:50:59 GMT

https://community.appian.com/w/the-appian-playbook/822/creating-flexible-processes

This has design pattern for memory efficient process flow.

RE: What is Best Approach To Design A Process Model?

satheesh — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 08:47:47 GMT

Thank You

RE: What is Best Approach To Design A Process Model?

kunals0003 — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:38:28 GMT

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’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

RE: What is Best Approach To Design A Process Model?

baji mekala — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:14:41 GMT

Hi Sathish,

you can go through the below URL, you find something about process model design

docs.appian.com/.../process-model-object.html

Regards,

Baji

RE: What is Best Approach To Design A Process Model?

Jayapriya Muthu — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:09:20 GMT

Hi, Please go through this link which includes best practices as well

docs.appian.com/.../Process_Model_Recipes.html