In this post, I want to discuss a way of how to use values stored in constants in the database. The more specific use case is status values. Now I know that when propagating a fully normalised data model, you would store status values in a reference table and just store these as a foreign…

File upload in Appian is a story full of misunderstandings! Well … what?! This is just about uploading a file! We need to go back to the beginning of Appian to understand what is going on here. The Beginning Appian started as a kind of workflow supported document management system. To upload a file, we…

In Appian, there are certain situations in which I need to check the data type of a rule input or local variable. While rule inputs have a defined data type, like Integer or Text, I can use the ANY-type in cases I need more flexibility. Find a list of all data types here: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/latest/Appian_Data_Types.html Then,…