KB-1137 CDT updates do not modify custom outputs

Maggie Deppe-Walker — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:40:38 GMT

Current Revision posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Maggie Deppe-Walker on 10/4/2023 4:40:38 AM

Symptoms

After modifying a CDT and updating all of its dependents, process models with smart services that rely on references within expressions to the modified CDT still fail to execute. The reason for this may be that the custom output still indexes a component of the CDT that was modified. The following message is shown in the application server log:

INFO  [stdout] (Appian Work Item - 566 - ProcessExec02 : ExpressionGroupRequest) 2016-05-10 20:19:45,003 [Appian Work Item - 566 - ProcessExec02 : ExpressionGroupRequest] ERROR com.appiancorp.process.engine.ExpressionGroup - An error occurred while evaluating expression: quantity:ac!Param1.quantity (Invalid index: Cannot index property 'quantity'
 of type Text into type cdt_to_2)

Cause

A custom output of a node in a process model differs from an input because the custom output of a node is an expression. Node inputs on the other hand are variables whose mappings will get updated when all dependents of the CDT are updated. You would see the same behavior in any rules (e.g. pv!cdt_to_2.quantity), meaning they would not get removed when dependents are updated.

This is by design as Appian shouldn’t be deleting custom outputs nor removing parts of the definition of rules when CDTs are modified, because that could easily cause other issues.

Action

Modify the custom output of the node to reflect the change in the CDT manually and the process will be able to complete correctly.

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian.

Last Reviewed: February 2017

Tags: CDTs, process models, application design

KB-1137 CDT updates do not modify custom outputs

Nick Vigilante — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:45:09 GMT

Revision 1 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Nick Vigilante on 2/24/2017 2:45:09 PM

Symptoms

INFO  [stdout] (Appian Work Item - 566 - ProcessExec02 : ExpressionGroupRequest) 2016-05-10 20:19:45,003 [Appian Work Item - 566 - ProcessExec02 : ExpressionGroupRequest] ERROR com.appiancorp.process.engine.ExpressionGroup - An error occurred while evaluating expression: quantity:ac!Param1.quantity (Invalid index: Cannot index property 'quantity'
 of type Text into type cdt_to_2)

Cause

This is by design as Appian shouldn’t be deleting custom outputs nor removing parts of the definition of rules when CDTs are modified, because that could easily cause other issues.

Action

Modify the custom output of the node to reflect the change in the CDT manually and the process will be able to complete correctly.

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian.

Last Reviewed: May 2016

Tags: CDTs, process models, application design

KB-1137 CDT updates do not modify custom outputs

Nick Vigilante — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 09:47:13 GMT

Revision 2 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Nick Vigilante on 2/24/2017 9:47:13 AM

Symptoms

INFO  [stdout] (Appian Work Item - 566 - ProcessExec02 : ExpressionGroupRequest) 2016-05-10 20:19:45,003 [Appian Work Item - 566 - ProcessExec02 : ExpressionGroupRequest] ERROR com.appiancorp.process.engine.ExpressionGroup - An error occurred while evaluating expression: quantity:ac!Param1.quantity (Invalid index: Cannot index property 'quantity'
 of type Text into type cdt_to_2)

Cause

This is by design as Appian shouldn’t be deleting custom outputs nor removing parts of the definition of rules when CDTs are modified, because that could easily cause other issues.

Action

Modify the custom output of the node to reflect the change in the CDT manually and the process will be able to complete correctly.

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian.

Last Reviewed: February 2017

Tags: CDTs, process models, application design