with() declarations refresh on any user action regardless of connection

Question

Hello:

I have noticed that anything declared in a with will get refreshed on any action the user takes on an interface, even if the with is unrelated to the action (such as a summary section at the top of the screen and a comments text box at the bottom, with no connection between the two).

Is this expected behavior for Appian?

It seems like with declared variables/rules/components should only refresh if one of the input variables changes.

If you see in the attached interface, changing the value in the textbox is refreshing the with variable, even though they are not related.

example_interface.txt

Jacob Cohen - Project Leader - Macedon Technologies · Accepted Answer

This is expected. You can find more about with() here: forum.appian.com/.../Evaluation_Functions.html

with() declarations refresh on any user action regardless of connection

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