User Experience Design

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

I have a use case involving multiple applications with a shared parent table: Parent Table (Parent_Request): Stores all requests created across various child applications. Each request has a unique Request ID. Child Applications: When a new request is created in a child app, it inserts a record into the Parent_Request table. There is a field called Related Request, implemented as a Record Picker. This allows users to link another request (from the same or different app) as a reference. Request Relation Table: Stores the relationship between the current request and the related request (i.e., maps request IDs). Currently when viewing the request summary or while creating a request, the Related Request link (from the Record Picker) opens the summary view from the parent request. I want the Related Request link to open in the correct application's local summary view — based on which child application originally created that request. Can you help me with this implementation?

We have done some stress test stuff to test specific process modeling approach and now we want method to delete all those instances at once. Does anyone have an effective method?

Hi Champ, I am using default export functionality of record in my interface to download data in to a excel. But when it's downloading, it's downloading columns with extra data. For example if I have a column with a text with an icon, then it's downloading text and appening the icon text as well which I don't want in my excel. I want only the text to be downloaded. Moreoever, if I want to download only few columns, then how can I customize that. I know we can build a different download icon link and can do that; but clinet is not preferring that option of custom development again. Regards, Ghanashyam

a!localVariable( local!array: rule!integration2, a!forEach(items: rule!integration2,  expression: 'type!{urn:com:appian:types:TEST}TEST_CDT'( name: index(split(index(index(rule!integration1(input: fv!item)), 1), 2), "/), "name"), email: index(split(index(index(rule!integration1(input: fv!item)), 1), 2), "/), "email") ) I want to perform the calculations in one local variable and pass fv!items from each iteration in the expression to that local variable and then simple index the values and fill in the values in the CDT. My idea is: a!localVariable( local!calculation: index(split(index(index(rule!integration1), 1), 2), "/), 1), local!array: rule!integration2, a!forEach(items: rule!integration2,  expression: 'type!{urn:com:appian:types:TEST}TEST_CDT'( name: index(local!calculation(intVal: fv!item), "name"), email: index(local!calculation(intVal: fv!item), "email"), ) ) But intVal is a rul

Is there a way to declare an empty array as a local variable (local!a)  --> Perform some operations in another local variable(local!b) and append the results to local!a.

Hi,Requirement, I have an Interface which consists of 4 interfaces inside. Out of the 4 interface one has a Card Layout Button. Upon clicking on the Card Layout button a process model is triggered. But before the process model triggers I want to validate all the fields in the 4 interface if its not blank and need to highlight the mandatory fields to be filled if it blank and only then the process should start. Though I have already used the link parameter in the card layout for startprocesslink Im unable to use dynamic link to save local variable and proceed. Kindly help on this.

I'm following the cards as a button layout.  I have a series of "buttons" that are generated dynamically.   What I'm trying to achieve is that my component tracks which buttons are currently selected. There is a rule input which is a list of integers of the selected buttons. I would like when the button is clicked for the id of the button to be added or removed from the list and the button card will change colors from selected to not selected and back. Currently the coloring works when setting the selected values by default but I cannot get the values to update when clicking on the "button". a!cardLayout( contents: { a!richTextDisplayField( value: { a!richTextItem(text: local!itemNum) }, align: "CENTER" ) },

I'm trying to remove the Appian logo from my Site, but it seems like it's not possible to do so. Does anyone have a solution to remove it or replace it with another one? The logo that is located right next to my profile picture.

Hi All,We have a start form with a main interface which is having 3 radio buttons in one child interface and and based on radio button clicked, we are showing three different child interfaces. Now when we click on the radio button, we want the data inside the interface to be refreshed. Currently data is refreshed only when whole page is refreshed. Can we use refresh variables to achieve this or any other way??

CMS does not display any visualization for my configured tasks and workflows.  Can you please help understand what might be the issue?

Hi All, I have a form which is a related action, inside of this form I also have a a!recordActionField , the user must fill out some information before they can proceed with submitting the new form. My Issue is that after the related action  is completed the main form does not get refreshed showing that no data is missing. I'm using the rule inputs for my list of validations. Any recommendations ?

Hi All, I am having editable grid with selection and implemented pagination also for that grid. For selection given primary key for id in gridRowLayout. but issue is if I selected all records in first page by click on header level checkbox and and go to next page and select all rows there also in same manner then my first page all selected primary keys is replacing with second page selected primary keys instead of appending all the selected primary key. Please help in this

I am unable to execute "Step-by-Step #8 Exercise to Accompany Interfaces 101" because the W_W1731SAVehicleSummary interface displays the following message:  Could not display interface. Please check definition and inputs. Interface Definition: Expression evaluation error at function a!gridField [line 335]: A grid component [label="W1731sa Maintenance"] has an invalid value for "columns". A grid column [label="Modified"] has encountered an error. Expression evaluation error at function 'user' [line 474]: [InvalidUserException]

Hi, We are trying to upload some files in an Interface inside a User Input Task, we already know that submitUploadedFiles doesn´t work in an Interface inside a User Input Task as mentioned in https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/user-interface/31235/unable-to-use-a-submituploadedfiles-in-site, so we have been struggling trying to achieve this use case.Just for clarification The User Input Task is in a process model used in a Site page We are using the User Input Task because it was the option we found to share some variables between a couple of interfaces inside the process model We are really new to Appian, so probably there are better ways to do these kind of things Here some info Site/resized-image/__size/640x480/__key/communityserver-components-multipleuploadfilemanager/13f642af_2D00_f604_2D00_496a_2D00_9560_2D00_775427969df6-283275-complete/pastedimage1745529911878v2.png Process model /resized-image/__size/640x480/__key/communityserver-components-multipleuploadfile

I have a button on an interface that is used to start Process using a!startProcess in the background. Now I want the values of the field to be retained. Once the process the completed, all the local variables are refreshed to empty or null values. How do I retain these values. For other fields I am using ri! but for a particular values that I am having operations on in the interace I am bound to use local variable here. Am I missing something here? I tried using rule inputs, but the usecase requires me use a local variable here. Also tried saving this to an ri! and onSuccess saving back to local! but that didn't help. Any help or direction that I should be looking towards to solve this?

Hi! When using embedded interfaces and use the url appian-site/url /suite/tempo/ui/sail-client/embedded Bootstrap.nocache.js on the external site, where is defined the interface that will be embeded? what does this url contains? Do I have to change something?  And it's available to use when using appian on premise right?

I am using appian version 24.4 and made a user filter for a record that is populated by a lookup table. I deleted a couple of rows from the table because they were unwanted, but they still show up in the filter. If I look at the table in the db or the record for the lookup table, both show that the entries are missing, but no matter what I do, the deleted rows show up in the dropdown.  This is the table: This is what the dropdown shows: "In draft" shouldn't be there and there is a duplicate which was removed, but both remain. I saw a similar post Here but I am not sure it's the same bug or not and the post seems to suggest that this issue was solved with version 24.1. Any help would be appreciated 

Hi community, I have a question about a functionallity that appears on the SAIL Design System Documentation. https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/25.1/sail/ux-site-branding.html#dialog-shape In this page, we can see a section that says that the dialog shape can be configured, but not how to achive it. Could someone guide me? Thanks in advance.

I have(had) an issue with a Selectable Editable Grid and I don't know if this is a bug or not. BUSINESS USE CASE I actually have two grids.  The Use Case here is to have the user assign a speaker to a parish for a parish event. One grid shows unassigned approved speakers and the other shows parishes that do not have a speaker.  There are two local variables that are loaded with this data; speakerEvents and parishEvents.  The user selects the Speaker, then selects the Parish before submitting the data. Here is the JSON for one of the grids. a!gridLayout( label: "Unassigned Approved Speakers", labelPosition: "ABOVE", emptyGridMessage: "There are no Unassigned Approved Speakers for this Event.", headerCells: { a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(label: "Speaker"), a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(label: "Type"), a!gridLayoutHeaderCe

Hi, I am trying to generate a CSV file from HTML(convert HTML to CSV plugin), but in the plugin's smart service, there is a parameter called 'CSS query' (text type). I am confused about what to put in that. Can anyone help with this? You will see this parameter in data --->input section

I have two or more dropdown component and I hope that these dropdown components can share one choice list. For example I have a list like {choice 1, choice 2, choice 3, choice 4,...} In dropdown 1 the choice list should be  {choice 1, choice 2, choice 3, choice 4,...}, when I choose choice 1 in this dropdown, the choice list of other dropdown should be  {choice 2, choice 3, choice 4,...},  when I choose choice 2 in dropdown 2, the choice list of other dropdown (expect dropdown 1 and dropdown 2) should be {choice 3, choice 4,...} Can appian do like this?

Sure, here's a clearer and more structured version of your text: Hi Everyone, I have a requirement involving two tables: Tyre Data Table: Columns: TyreID (Primary Key), PartNumber (Foreign Key) Country Restriction Table: Columns: ID (Primary Key), PartNumber (Foreign Key), Country Name, IsActive (Boolean) These tables have a one-to-many relationship. For example, if we have a tyre with TyreID 1, there could be 150 entries in the Country Restriction Table for this tyre. Let's say for TyreID 1, it is active in India and the US. In this case, the IsActive column would be 1 for India and the US, and 0 for all other countries(all remaining rows). Export Requirement: We need to export the data in the following format: PartNumber Country1 Country2 … Country150 12345 1 0 … 1

Hello, I have this interface where there is a grid that shows uploaded attachments and a button to refresh the grid whenever there is a new attachment uploaded. I am running into an issue where if the user clicks on "Refresh existing attachments" when the grid is empty, then uploads an attachment, the refresh button no longer refreshes. But if they upload an attachment and click refresh after utilizing the action, it functions as expected and the attachment shows on the grid. I am trying to cover this scenario in case a user for some reason decides to click refresh before uploading and the grid is empty. Thoughts?  a!localVariables( local!readonly: a!isUserMemberOfGroup(loggedInUser(), cons!FRR_viewerGroup), local!existingFolderId: if( isnull(ri!requestId), null, rule!FRR_GET_requestFolder(requestId: ri!requestId) ), local!existingAttachments: a!refreshVariable( value: if( isnull(local!existingFolderId), null, folder( l

Hi Do we have any plugins for below requirement, Tyre Data Table: Columns: TyreID (Primary Key), PartNumber (Foreign Key) Country Restriction Table: Columns: ID (Primary Key), PartNumber (Foreign Key), Country Name, IsActive (Boolean)These tables have a one-to-many relationship. For example, if we have a tyre with TyreID 1, there could be 150 entries in the Country Restriction Table for this tyre. Let's say for TyreID 1, it is active in India and the US. In this case, the IsActive column would be 1 for India and the US, and 0 for all other countries. Requirement: We need to export the data in the following format: Part Number|Country1|country2|.......country150 12345 | 1 | 0 |................|1|