Calculate rolling sum by userId

RE: Calculate rolling sum by userId

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 19:12:13 GMT

Well, this is something you could do in Appian, in theory, but Appian is not meant to do any sort of larger data processing.

RE: Calculate rolling sum by userId

Mike S — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:55:26 GMT

That was the way I was immediately leaning, but i come from a db / backend development background. So I was trying to see if there was an Appian way before I turned that direction.

RE: Calculate rolling sum by userId

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 16:41:59 GMT

IMHO, this sounds like a stored procedure might be a good option.

RE: Calculate rolling sum by userId

Mike S — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 16:32:01 GMT

The process would run daily to process the entire set of records and calculate for the given date. More succinctly if I go back to my example above. It would run once at the end of the day for the 8th and determine that the current result is false. Then on the 9th it would run at the end of the day and determine result is true.

Record query time -> No

Record update time -> Maybe

in a process -> Yes

UI -> No

The purpose is to have a points accumulation system. When they break this threshold they achieve a point. The following day if they break the threshold they earn a point.

The user would only ever see their points they have accumulated by month.

This process should run daily and process the total calculation for all users that exist in the table.

RE: Calculate rolling sum by userId

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 15:01:23 GMT

At what time do you want to do this? At record query time, at record update time, in a process, at UI level?

For which purpose? A validation?

Do you need to do this for many users at the same time or only one?