Hello,
Fairly new with the Appian platform here. Creating a few forms using Interface and have all the rule inputs added for the fields in the form. When I preview the form and try to enter data all the data I enter disappears when I TAB or click on the next empty field.What am I doing wrong or can I correct this issue?Thanks!
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Cool, hope things go well for you with that effort.
I think what's confusing is that when you design an Interface you define the rule inputs and they hold the values as they're set in the Interface Designer, which lulls you into the false security that they are in fact variables. But in reality they;'re not, they're references (pointers) to variables in the actual implementation. So when you type in a value in the Interface in a User Input Task the values have to be stored somewhere and that somewhere are what's called 'Activity Class' variables (effectively private variables defined in the 'Data' tab of the User Input Task.) And even then they won't end up in Process Variables sunless you map them from the ACs to the PVs.
I use the following diagram to try to illustrate the relationships between process variables, activity class variables and rule inputs:
Stewart,I understand what you are saying and see a screenshot of the 'Data' tab you were referring to. I noticed that the first and last name 'value' field were blank, now when I try to save it I get An unknown error has occurred while saving the process model
Hi @antonium0004,
I had the same issue. Not sure if you have it solved.
Notice the value. (ri! can be rule input or a local variable)
a!textField( label: "ID", labelPosition: "ABOVE", value: ri!ID, saveInto: ri!ID, refreshAfter: "UNFOCUS", validations: {} )
The link you share here is a 404. I understand this response is from 4yrs ago and Mike Schmitt is probably no longer with Appian, but someone really needs to clear out these old outdated responses that link to 404 pages.
Scott Fleming said:Mike Schmitt is probably no longer with Appian
Nope, still here! I did change employer once in the meantime though (for clarification i'm not an Appian employee directly, nor was I at any point in the past).
Scott Fleming said:The link you share here is a 404.
The documentation pages are all hard-bound (for whatever reason) to a particular Appian version. They do persist for a long time, but eventually go stale. (This would be an interesting gripe to raise with the folks at Appian who take care of this stuff). FWIW, it took me about 5 seconds to search for the title of my original link and get the modern equivalent: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/24.2/Process_Modeling_Tutorial.html
(Not sure why that required a long-past-retrospective downvote though )