Disable Process Model Nodes

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Is there a way to disable nodes in a process model for testing purposes? At the moment I just disconnect the nodes from the process model, but Appian doesn't seem to like that. I would like to be able to do some equivalent of commenting them out, if there's anything like that.

Mike Schmitt · Answer

Can you go a little bit more into your use case? If it's a node you need to have permanently in place but will usually need to bypass for testing purposes, the standard method is to have an XOR gateway prior to the node that checks the value of either a PV or a constant, to see whether it's in "testing mode" let's say, and executes accordingly.

Mike Schmitt · Answer

Marco said: In normal coding, you can just comment out all the parts you don't want to deal with. 
 Not really in a process model. My own personal technique for dealing with such a thing in a dev environment is to get a single instance to that node, then edit the instance and restart the node as needed until it's working, then copy that change back over to the model. that way you don't have to, for instance, fill out the forms for 10 user input tasks before a final node that does processing, you just get that far once and then try that node as many times as needed.

Disable Process Model Nodes

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