• Formatting Labels in Appian

    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……

  • Designing Long Running Tasks

    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……

  • 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……