Help Looping a Process Model

benh3891 over 7 years ago

Thanks for all the help I received last time I posted here. I was able to complete an export to excel from CDT.

Now I would like to write a loop around the export process which will reference an array of unique ids to form the foundation for the data pull. The original model takes just on ID, hence the loop. I'm not sure if this is the best way of doing it. Any suggestions would be helpful. I've added the 'increment constant node' and the 'restart all nodes'. I think this method would work but that is also why I am posting. I have a sail form to accept the input for the array of unique ids but I'm not sure if that should be the process start form or a 'user input node'.

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0 Dan Lluhi
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over 7 years ago

No problem! You can use either a start form, or chain to a user input task. From the documentation:

"Generally speaking, process models that require a user interaction first should be configured with a process start form. Activity-chained tasks are useful when something needs to happen between kicking off the process and the user seeing the form."

So in your case it really depends on if anything needs to happen before the user selects the array of IDs.

Here's the link to the Process Start Form documentation, which also explains how to save user inputs: docs.appian.com/.../Process_Start_Form.html
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0 Dan Lluhi
Certified Lead Developer
over 7 years ago

No problem! You can use either a start form, or chain to a user input task. From the documentation:

"Generally speaking, process models that require a user interaction first should be configured with a process start form. Activity-chained tasks are useful when something needs to happen between kicking off the process and the user seeing the form."

So in your case it really depends on if anything needs to happen before the user selects the array of IDs.

Here's the link to the Process Start Form documentation, which also explains how to save user inputs: docs.appian.com/.../Process_Start_Form.html
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