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September 24, 2021
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Servlet Vs Creating a custom plugin

  • September 24, 2021
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Hi,

My use case is the following. I need to automatically assign new daily batch of tasks to workers. Each task, worker has a set of skills. The task's skills must match the worker's. 

Additionally, the algorithm must assign/distribute tasks as equally as possible. 

I have come up with a way to do this by reducing this to a graph/flow problem.

Problem is, it is super hard/impossible to implement this in an expression rule. As such, I want to develop a custom function in appian in Java. 

Which way is better to this, via Servlet or custom plugin? 

Thank you,

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    stefanhelzle0001
    Brainy
    September 24, 2021

    I think a very similar use case has been discussed a few weeks ago. The community recommended to implement that algorithm in Appian. Why is that hard/impossible? What do you want to implement? 

    If you still want to go the Java route, a function plugin might make the best option.