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mikej117
over 7 years ago
Hi, I am doing some analysis to find references to some application objects that I'd like to refactor and have found some misleading results from Designer.
When searching for a rule by name, I was presented with 2 results from the old Designer (/suite/designer), but 1 result from the new Designer (/suite/design).
Additionally, when searching for the same rule by UUID, I was presented with 0 results from the new Designer.
The rule in question has dependencies and has been added to 11 application packages in this environment.
This is making me nervous that my analysis results are not going to include all the results that it should.
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reginaldm377
over 7 years ago
I think more information is needed to verify if there's a true issue between old/new designer or if this is a user error. Here are some questions that came to mind.
1. When you saw the 2 results in old designer, did you bother drilling into both results to see why 2 results with the same name came up? This shouldn't be possible as Appian restricts any 2 (or more) objects from having the exact same name which is done when a user tries to name a rule. Maybe there are similar named copies floating around in the environment.
2. Could you identify which version of Appian are you working on? It's a long shot, but this could be a version issue..
3. Are you certain that another user would have not interfered/disrupted your analysis with modifying the object (deleting/recreating the object/etc.) ? I ask because unless the UUID was copied wrong, I find it strange your result would come up 0 given a UUID's uniqueness. If the UUID you have obtained is for the object in question, there should be at least 1 result unless the object was deleted.
4. When doing your searches in new designer, were you searching with the "Objects" tab selected? It's a tedious question to ask, but just wanted to verify.
5. Another tedious question, but could you verify that the 2 searches from the old designer view actually have the exact same name by mousing over each search result and seeing the entire object's name? Maybe there's a slight difference in their naming that make them seem to be the same.
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reginaldm377
over 7 years ago
I think more information is needed to verify if there's a true issue between old/new designer or if this is a user error. Here are some questions that came to mind.
1. When you saw the 2 results in old designer, did you bother drilling into both results to see why 2 results with the same name came up? This shouldn't be possible as Appian restricts any 2 (or more) objects from having the exact same name which is done when a user tries to name a rule. Maybe there are similar named copies floating around in the environment.
2. Could you identify which version of Appian are you working on? It's a long shot, but this could be a version issue..
3. Are you certain that another user would have not interfered/disrupted your analysis with modifying the object (deleting/recreating the object/etc.) ? I ask because unless the UUID was copied wrong, I find it strange your result would come up 0 given a UUID's uniqueness. If the UUID you have obtained is for the object in question, there should be at least 1 result unless the object was deleted.
4. When doing your searches in new designer, were you searching with the "Objects" tab selected? It's a tedious question to ask, but just wanted to verify.
5. Another tedious question, but could you verify that the 2 searches from the old designer view actually have the exact same name by mousing over each search result and seeing the entire object's name? Maybe there's a slight difference in their naming that make them seem to be the same.
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