You're reading from Low-Code Application Development with Appian The practitioner's guide to high-speed business automation at enterprise scale using Appian

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800205628

Length 462 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Appian

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Stefan Helzle

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

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

2. Chapter 1: Creating an Appian Quick App FREE CHAPTER

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

Creating interfaces from scratch

Up to now, you have used the Appian interface designer only to automatically generate very basic interfaces. There is a lot more to discover. You can use templates, ready-made patterns, and specific layout, display, or input components. You can modify your interface in the drag and drop design mode for easy layout and add dynamic behavior in the code-oriented expression mode. You can test the whole interface while working on it, then analyze the performance to make sure to meet the performance requirements.

We will now discuss the various kinds of interfaces, and how to build them tailored to their specific requirements.

Record views

In the context of a record, we use interfaces to display the data of an individual record item selected by the user. By default, a record has three views:

Summary: This view is meant to display the most important data, immediately relevant for a user, at first glance. It cannot be removed or renamed.