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Low-Code Application Development with Appian

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
Languages
Author (1):
Stefan Helzle Stefan Helzle
Profile icon 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 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Advanced task management

We are now talking about a more generic use case with a twist, which is task management within a team. You are probably used to managing tasks using email and phone calls. This generally happens without asking, and you never know the status of a task that you assigned to your colleague. Hence, there is zero transparency.

It would be a massive benefit for your team if you used a Quick App for this. This is because all information is in one place, including any documents created along the way.

The basic fields in a Quick App record are as follows:

  • Title
  • Status
  • Priority

Now, let's add some more fields, such as the following:

  • Description (Paragraph)
  • Due Date (Date)

To make task management a bit more professional, let's add a simple RACI-Matrix. Here, RACI stands for Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed. It is used in business analysis to define the roles of stakeholders for a specific task...

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