We are on Appian 7.8 cloud. In the task form, there is a link "S

aksharc over 10 years ago

We are on Appian 7.8 cloud.

In the task form, there is a link "Save Changes". Clicking on that will save the form. My question is, does it save the form data in the underlying activity class parameter? For example, if I have a text field which saves into activity class parameter. So when I save changes the form, will it save the data in the acp? Or will it save it somewhere else? If it does not save in the acp, is there a way to access/capture that data in process variable/acp?

Thanks in Advanced.

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0 rajeshm over 10 years ago

Hi aksharc,

On clicking "Save Changes" values get stored directly in ACP.
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0 Stefan Helzle
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over 10 years ago

AFAIK it is not possible to access these variables from the process.
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0 Conor Cahill
Certified Lead Developer
over 10 years ago

You can also add a button for saving changes. This button would do all the saves that you would normally do when submitting the form, except you would check in process to see if the user hit this button instead of the normal submit button. If they did, then reroute right back to the same form.

This can be used if your ACPs are not updated until you hit the submit button (e.g. their updates are in the saveInto of the submit button).
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0 aksharc over 10 years ago

Thanks all for the response. I did some digging and found out that, when we enter any value in the interact-able components, during the SaveInto operation activity class parameter gets the value. And when we click on the Save Changes, the value from the ACP is not erased. And form partially submits (we don't get the warning stating the form has not been submitted and value will be gone - something similar)
I may be wrong here. But this is what I think is happening. :)
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0 outey over 10 years ago

By default does the Save Changes work on the task form? I seemed to be having some issues with this.
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0 outey over 10 years ago

Nevermind, it is working now...
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