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Low-Code Application Development with Appian

By : Stefan Helzle
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Low-Code Application Development with Appian

By: Stefan Helzle

Overview of this book

This book is an exhaustive overview of how the Appian Low-Code BPM Suite enables tech-savvy professionals to rapidly automate business processes across their organization, integrating people, software bots, and data. This is crucial as 80% of all software development is expected to be carried out in low code by 2024. This practical guide helps you master business application development with Appian as a beginner low-code developer. You'll learn to automate business processes using Appian low-code, records, processes, and expressions quickly and on an enterprise scale. In a fictional development project, guided by step-by-step explanations of the concepts and practical examples, this book will empower you to transform complex business processes into software. At first, you’ll learn the power of no-code with Appian Quick Apps to solve some of your most crucial business challenges. You’ll then get to grips with the building blocks of an Appian, starting with no-code and advancing to low-code, eventually transforming complex business requirements into a working enterprise-ready application. By the end of this book, you'll be able to deploy Appian Quick Apps in minutes and successfully transform a complex business process into low-code process models, data, and UIs to deploy full-featured, enterprise-ready, process-driven, mobile-enabled apps.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: No-Code with Appian Quick Apps
11
Section 3: Implementing Software
17
Section 4: The Code in Appian Low-Code

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.
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