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marcot0005
February 9, 2022
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Expression Descriptions

  • February 9, 2022
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When you make an expression, the name and rule inputs show up in the little help box in the bottom left corner much like native appian functions. The expression's description also shows up. I was wondering if there was some way to make descriptions for the rule inputs. 

Best answer by stewart.burchell

Hi Marco

It's a request that's been around for a while. So, up to and including the latest release, the answer is no. You can (of course) list them and add descriptions for them in the rule 'Description' attribute but (and I'm sure you're ahead of me her eon this point) that's a development and maintenance overhead that would be addressed if you could have a 'Description' attribute for each rule input AND have that auto-populated in the 'Help' pane in the bottom left of the Expression Designer.

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stewart.burchell
February 9, 2022

Hi Marco

It's a request that's been around for a while. So, up to and including the latest release, the answer is no. You can (of course) list them and add descriptions for them in the rule 'Description' attribute but (and I'm sure you're ahead of me her eon this point) that's a development and maintenance overhead that would be addressed if you could have a 'Description' attribute for each rule input AND have that auto-populated in the 'Help' pane in the bottom left of the Expression Designer.

marcot0005
February 9, 2022

Ah. I suspected as much. Thank you for the response.