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… Read More 1st Anniversary

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… Read More Formatting Labels in Appian

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… Read More Designing Long Running Tasks

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… Read More Query Data Expression Patterns

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… Read More Working with Time in Appian

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

Digitally transform business process to free people from mindless activities.… Read More Make Software Conduct the Process

Building applications using Appian is considered low-code. As low is more than no, we still have to apply some basic principles of software engineering.… Read More Robust Expression Design

Low-code software development deserves a simplified approach to data modelling.… Read More Low-Code Data Modeling

Learn how to properly check local variables and rule inputs for Null and other sorts of invalid values in Appian.… Read More The Magic of Null-Checking