Execute Process or Update DB from within Tempo Report

Hello all,

I have a business case where a single Department is in charge of handling Legal Cases for a Bank and acts as a liaison between the Bank's branches and its partner lawyer firms. In this business case, this Department is responsible of performing a few Tasks but the most important is forwarding the requests to a selected lawyer firm. As they receive these requests, the would like to have a list of pending requests, in the form of a report, and have the ability to forward a batch of requests to a selected lawyer firm instead of going through each pending request and performing that action from within each pending request.

Given all the new functionality that Appian provides, i was thinking of building a Tempo Report that provides that list of pending requests to the users and giving them the ability to select (using a grid field) a number of requests execute an expression (either some form of DB update or an asynchronous Process Initiation) by pressing a button, since Tempo Reports are basically SAIL interfaces.

I believe this provides an improved user experience as it minimizes the steps the user has to go through in order to perform some action. However, i have not seen such use of expressions in Tempo Reports and i would like to know if such use is not recommended, and if not, for what reason.

Thanks

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