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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

Chapter 3: Building Blocks of Appian Quick Apps

Now we have a good understanding of what a Quick App can do, we will look under the hood to see how it works. This chapter will introduce the individual objects in Appian and explore how they interact.

In this chapter, you will use the Appian Designer environment. This is the place where we can develop any Appian application. To understand how a Quick App works, I will give you a brief introduction. In Chapter 3, Building Blocks of Appian Quick Apps, we will go into more detail on objects and how they are created.

We'll be covering the following topics in this chapter:

  • The basics of the Appian Designer environment
  • An introduction to Appian Records
  • Checking the Appian process models
  • Learning about Appian interfaces
  • Understanding Appian expressions rules

    Note

    As you open objects in their respective designers, please do not modify them. The Quick Apps feature in Appian is designed to allow quick and easy...