local variables in other domains

RE: local variables in other domains

aloks0189 — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 08:38:20 GMT

Hi hpcole generally we make the use of test! In expression rule Test cases where you want to use assertion.

RE: local variables in other domains

ravichandt316819 — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 04:31:14 GMT

I agree with Jeremy. For example, if you start typing the local variable names in expression rule and or in the interface, you can not get the auto-population for the local variables which doesn't start with local!.

RE: local variables in other domains

jeremys — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 03:57:26 GMT

It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere so I'm not sure.

RE: local variables in other domains

anjup — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 03:48:01 GMT

Just curious.. apart from using test! to define variables. Is there any other significance?

RE: local variables in other domains

jeremys — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 01:12:06 GMT

Hi,
I've asked around and it seems like in earlier versions (7.x, etc) you were able to define variables using any domain eg. acb!, testing!, local!. This introduced code maintainability issues so the standard was changed to local!. I can't find any documentation on it so it seems like test! is a remnant of this functionality from earlier versions of Appian. I would avoid using the test! domain as it doesn't seem to documented and could be at risk of deprecation.