It is hard to believe, but the world’s first book about Appian just got one year old. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Writing the book was an interesting and challenging endeavour, and I learned a lot along the way. I already had experience training Appian novices, but the demands of structuring complex thought processes for writing a book…

In Appian, we can display formatted text. But only inside a Richt-Text Display field. I will present a way to display labels, instructions, choiceLabels and tooltips in bold, italic or bold+italic. How this works … just apply the magic of unicode character substitution. Let’s have a look. Unicode Text in any computer is represented by…

There are business processes out there which can take a very long time to complete. Think of claims management in an insurance company. When there is an ongoing law suite, this can take months or even years. But still, there are tasks in this process which need to be assigned, tracked and completed. Translating this…