Hi everyone, I just want to know more about the report object in Appian.
I have read all the theory available in Appian, but I still have some doubts. I want to show all data on a site, so I have created one main interface that has three sub-interfaces with KPIs in it. If I want to add this to a site, I have two ways: either I can add it as an interface or as a report. Then, what is the purpose of the report? There aren't many options; we just need to select the interface we want to show in the report
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In older Appian versions, sites FORCED the use of a "report" to add any interface as a site page. Call it a side effect of the way the Site feature evolved over time. It quickly became apparent that the "report" object as an intermediary only served a superficial purpose (and made things needlessly complicated, as well as blocking certain funcitonality such as configuring interfaces with pre-set rule inputs based on usage on a particular site).
So, fortunately, several versions ago now they started allowing us to configure interfaces directly, and it is 100% an improvement. I don't know of any cases (not even anything niche) which would still benefit from use of the report object, for use on Sites.