Save draft Functionallity

RE: Save draft Functionallity

josep — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 03:43:37 GMT

Hello Lokesh,

At this point i think others have already answered your questions I just wanted to mention the following.

Do you really need to use the standard save draft? Keep in mind that using the standard save draft can have some drawbacks:
- to query the information in the save draft you will need a task report. You won’t be able (easily) to query the information and make joins with the database. I personally prefer to store that saves information in the database.
- think about the reports of the “in process information” or “on hold”. And the completed.
- saving in draft potentially will have process instances hanging if the user does not continue with the process. In the long term maybe you should have to handle. (Add to the equation the volume and size of the process instance).
- I can see that you might need a flag to lock just to make sure the information is not updated in the database and when you open the task again something becomes inconsistent.

Finally the limitations as you found out and the comments that other provided

Jose

RE: Save draft Functionallity

Sidhant Behura — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:52:00 GMT

You can have your own Submit Button names "Save Draft" where you go into the process flow again, save the data entered in the form if needed and route back to the form without an activity chaining. This mimics the default Save Draft button. Hope it helps!

RE: Save draft Functionallity

lokeshk — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:55:28 GMT

that's the last option to remove , but i want that user should save the data through save draft functionality

RE: Save draft Functionallity

Carlos Santander — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:53:05 GMT

Just uncheck "Allow Users to Save a Draft of In-Progress Tasks", as mentioned in docs.appian.com/.../Forms_Tab.html

RE: Save draft Functionallity

lokeshk — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:47:26 GMT

Shanmukha Save Draft is Appian by default functionality, how we can remove it from UI?

RE: Save draft Functionallity

Shanmukha — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:23:18 GMT

Hi Lokesh,
There are few cases where save draft does not work. If you have any data manipulation happened with load or with it will defiantly not good idea to keep Save Draft Option on the UI this is what I have experienced with my code.

Coming to in your case whenever you upload a file it will automatically call some stuff in the background where it will generate id for that and store them in the tmp location so this might be the possibility Appian is showing this message upfront.

Thanks