Have you ever faced the challenge of setting up operational support processes for an Appian production environment? Look no further, I can help you with that! In a production environment, you want to provide access to the application to normal users only. This will make the application compliant and your security officer happy. Now we… Read More Support Processes on Appian

Only one version left this year. I am voting for automatic database schema management for records. Or maybe 64bit integers, lambdas for looping functions, and a flux compensator … But let’s save the future for another time and focus on version 23.3. The big highlight is the AI Copilot that automatically translates PDF forms into… Read More Appian 23.3

The layout components in Appian are pretty powerful for what Appian is made for. Just a few years ago, there were no colors available, and layouts could only be one or two columns. A lot has changed since then, and the challenge to create a rich UI turned from tech-limited into designer-limited. In one of… Read More Overlapping Card Layouts

So, you got a task assigned and you accept it. Then you find out that you need support from a colleague and reassign it to that person. You would want to include a message to explain your desire. And you would want to see that activity being recorded to the audit trail of that specific… Read More Task Reassignment vs. Collaboration

When designing a user interface meant to display larger volumes of data to the user, we have to consider two important restrictions. These are available memory and screen space. The read-only grid in Appian does manage both in a clever way, as it tries to query and display data in batches defined by a start… Read More Universal Paging

When you assign a task, you want to make sure that task gets done. In Appian, we use the built-in escalation and exception mechanism to manage task completion. If there is a lot of time available, such as several days or even weeks, we can easily define those times and ignore that an exception might… Read More The Working Time Problem

I see many developers joining the Appian universe asking for popups. This seems to be a big thing in other environments, but Appian has none, except for Record actions. While this works extremely well within the paradigm of process-driven applications, which Appian is designed for, there are some scenarios in which I might want to… Read More Popup Windows in Appian

In general, the text formatting capabilities are a bit limited in Appian. I consider this to be a good thing, as limiting choice to the right options makes development a lot easier. And we are talking about low-code, so this is part of the deal. Now, I had a requirement to highlight specific words in… Read More Highlighting Stuff in Text

Appian just released version 23.2 with another set of evolutionary enhancements to the platform. In this post, I want to highlight my personal top three changes in that latest version. To make this more interesting for you, I pushed Appian to provide me with the latest version as early as possible, so I can share… Read More Appian (R)evolutions

I am absolutely thrilled to announce that the book lottery has come to a close, and I am overwhelmed by the incredible response. We had a record-breaking number of over 120 participants who tried their luck to win a hand-signed copy of the world’s first book about the Appian low-code platform. Thank you all for… Read More The lottery is complete!