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  • Query Data Expression Patterns

    Designing expressions querying data is an example of reusability by the book. I am sure you already heard that you should follow the Don’t-Repeat-Yourself (DRY) principle. In most applications, you will probably need to query data from the same source in very similar ways multiple times. The most used are: To reduce the amount of…

  • Working with Time in Appian

    This is what the GPT chatbot thinks about time in software applications: Ticking clock ticks on, Code lines flow, time passes by. Virtual moments gone. And an image generated in a Salvador Dali – Cyberpunk style: I will probably leave the writing of poems and painting of pictures to the AIs. I think that time…

  • Create New Items Using a Custom Picker

    How to build a custom picker field in Appian, that allows to add new items.… Read More Create New Items Using a Custom Picker