We have built a reporting framework that allows customers to customize columns and filters to generate a custom report. The customer is asking for more flexible filtering, including defining operators between filters and grouping filters, basically a UI for building logical expressions. Furthermore, the customer has more complex reporting requirements such as generating reports with dynamic columns, based on selected filters.
We have a potential solution for the flexible filtering requirement, but we have performance concerns as our current filter framework uses nested CDTs Are there any existing solutions or examples of report builders / query builders in Appian? Also, what is Appian's recommendation for handling complex reporting / data analysis?
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IMHO, Appian is not designed with such highly flexible and dynamic use cases in mind. Enforcing this quickly becomes very complicated and tends to become a unmaintainable mess of workarounds.
Did you check self service analytics like Mathieu Drouin mentioned? Could it be an option to use an external tool like PowerBi, that is already established?
Thank you for the PowerBi plugin suggestion Stefan, it looks to be a potential solution for our needs.