The management of reference data within the Appian platform has historically oscillated between discrete constants and database-backed lookup tables. While constants offer simplicity, they frequently lead to “constant explosion,” complicating the deployment lifecycle. Conversely, database tables can introduce unnecessary latency for UI-specific metadata like hex codes or icon names. And values stored in the database…

If you followed along our podcast Episode “7 Years of Process Reports“, you already know a few things about process reports in general, and task reports in particular. In this post, I want to dive a deeper into the details, and the dependencies between process, user input task, task interface, and task report. Task Information…

I recently had the challenge to design a wizard user interface in Appian. But it was not that ordinary wizard with just a few static steps. It had to be a wizard with a dynamic dumber of steps. When looking at this from a UX perspective, I wanted to avoid surprising the user with a…