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Design for Reusability Exercise

This document is a tutorial for practicing design for reusability in Appian, specifically using the Community Edition and the Acme Auto application. It provides instructions on completing exercises, naming conventions, and saving practices, along with additional resources for learning. The first practice involves creating and analyzing interfaces to enhance reusability in applications.

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Design for Reusability Exercise

This document is a tutorial for practicing design for reusability in Appian, specifically using the Community Edition and the Acme Auto application. It provides instructions on completing exercises, naming conventions, and saving practices, along with additional resources for learning. The first practice involves creating and analyzing interfaces to enhance reusability in applications.

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Design for Reusability Exercise

Advanced Expressions

Introduction 2
How to Complete the Exercises in this Tutorial 2
How Can I Practice? 2
Appian Version 2
Naming Conventions 2
Save Often 3
Additional Resources 3
Practice 1 Set Up: Design for Reusability 4
Practice 1 Help and Resources: Design for Reusability 6
Additional Resources 6

Notice of Rights

This document was created by Appian Corporation, 7950 Jones Branch Dr, Tysons, Virginia 22102.
Copyright 2024 by Appian Corporation. All rights reserved. Information in this document is subject to
change. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, without
prior written permission of Appian Corporation. For more information on obtaining permission for
reprints or excerpts, contact Appian Training at [email protected].

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Introduction
How to Complete the Exercises in this Tutorial
Follow the steps to complete practice 1.

How Can I Practice?


You should practice in Appian Community Edition. This free, community Appian resource
comes with the pre-built Acme Auto application that contains objects that you’ll use to build
your expression rules.

Keep in mind that this is a community environment not suitable for production workloads or
sensitive information.

Appian Version
Appian Community Edition is on the latest Appian version. If you are following the exercises
from a previous Appian version, go to academy.appian.com to download the latest version.

Naming Conventions
When you register for Appian Community Edition, you gain access to a workspace, which is
your personal area within the community environment. When your workspace has been
assigned, you will receive a confirmation email with a workspace ID.

Use this workspace ID when creating new applications and objects. Otherwise, you could run
into naming conflicts with objects created by other users. Pre-loaded apps in your workspace
also include the workspace ID. In the example below, the application prefix for the Acme
Auto Solution app is W0000AS. So, the workspace identifier is W0000, which would be
included in any new app’s prefix.

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Save Often
Appian does not automatically save updates, so save your objects frequently.

Additional Resources
Appian provides a number of training resources for Appian developers. The following
resources are particularly popular with our learners:

● Academy Online - Appian’s online courses provide useful survey courses, step-by-step
tutorials, and practice exercises. Explore these resources at your own pace. Survey
courses will help you develop a better grasp of the topics you need to learn. Video
and print tutorials will help you with getting hands-on experience with Appian.

● Community Discussions for New Users - Check out the New to Appian thread in
Community. Join our community of experts to ask questions and find answers from
past discussions.

● Appian Documentation - Appian’s product documentation will provide you with an


overview of key Appian features, newest release information, additional tutorials,
and helpful patterns and recipes to implement in your app.

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Practice 1 Set Up: Design for Reusability
In this lesson, you’ll use the expression editor to create some data arrays, view their data
structures, and determine whether or not you should convert them.

Directions

This exercise is exploratory. You will review existing Appian Community Edition
objects and analyze their reusability.

1. Review the following interfaces from the Acme Auto Reference Application:

● W#AA_DASH_VehicleSummaryView

● W#AA_FM_RequestVehicleMaintenance

2. For each interface, identify:

● Other interface or expression rules found in the above interfaces

● Those rule inputs

3. In Appian Designer, create a new interface by duplicating


W#AA_DASH_VehicleSummaryView.

Tip

When duplicating the existing interface, in the Interface to Duplicate field, enter:
VehicleSummary.

Next, find your W#AA_DASH_VehicleSummaryView interface.

● Name: Enter W#AE_PracticeReusability

● Description: Enter Practice designing interfaces and expression


rules that can be reused throughout applications.

● Save In: W#AE_Rules & Constants

4. Create a new section in the interface and practice saving that section as its own
interface.

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Tip

Use Acme Auto data to quickly build a new section.

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Practice 1 Help and Resources: Design for Reusability
Use the lesson content and additional resources below to guide you in your analysis
performance practice.

Additional Resources
● Save interface as
● Save selected expression as

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