You're reading from Low-Code Application Development with Appian

Product type Book

Published in Apr 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800205628

Pages 462 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Application Development

Author (1):

Stefan Helzle

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: No-Code with Appian Quick Apps

2. Chapter 1: Creating an Appian Quick App

3. Chapter 2: Features and Limitations of Appian Quick Apps

4. Chapter 3: Building Blocks of Appian Quick Apps

5. Chapter 4: The Use Cases for Appian Quick Apps

6. Section 2: A Software Project with Appian

7. Chapter 5: Understanding the Business Context

8. Chapter 6: Understanding Business Data in Appian Projects

9. Chapter 7: Understanding Business Processes in Appian Projects

10. Chapter 8: Understanding UX Discovery and the UI in Appian Projects

11. Section 3: Implementing Software

12. Chapter 9: Modeling Business Data with Appian Records

13. Chapter 10: Modeling Business Processes in Appian

14. Chapter 11: Creating User Interfaces in Appian

15. Chapter 12: Task Management with Appian

16. Chapter 13: Reporting and Monitoring with Appian

17. Section 4: The Code in Appian Low-Code

18. Chapter 14: Expressing Logic with Appian

19. Chapter 15: Using Web Services with Appian Integrations

20. Chapter 16: Useful Implementation Patterns in Appian

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Best practices

The following are some best practices regarding stakeholder groups, historic reporting, report interaction, and report composition.

Stakeholder groups

Your target groups for the reports each have their own requirements. The executive board is more interested in the longer-term effects of implemented measures. For a department head, the impact of changes in an environment or process improvements is more important. The operational team leader wants to be able to control his employees based on the reports.

Develop a set of performance indicators for each group of stakeholders and design reports to meet the specific needs of the presentation format. After all, a board meeting is different from a daily team meeting.

Historic reports

Especially for reporting, which shows change over time, you will need to take periodic measurements and persist that data to the database. Sometimes, this is not that easy – for example, you may want to store how many cases...