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Appian FAQ Updated

The document is a comprehensive FAQ regarding Appian process models, covering topics such as triggering processes, differences between subprocesses and actions, best practices, and error handling. It also addresses data types, functions, integration with external systems, user interface configurations, and reporting capabilities. Each section includes specific questions and answers to guide users in effectively utilizing Appian's features.

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Appian FAQ Updated

The document is a comprehensive FAQ regarding Appian process models, covering topics such as triggering processes, differences between subprocesses and actions, best practices, and error handling. It also addresses data types, functions, integration with external systems, user interface configurations, and reporting capabilities. Each section includes specific questions and answers to guide users in effectively utilizing Appian's features.

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Appian FAQ

Process Model
1. What are the different ways you can trigger/start process model?
Ans:- Action, Subprocess, a!startProcess(), Related Action, Through Email trigger,
webAPI, start Process Smart Service

2. Difference between sub-process and a!startprocessmodel. Pros and cons of using sub-
process
Ans:- Pros---1 reuse,
2 monitor.
3 easy to manage.

Cons-----1 If sub process in Asynchronous and it gating fail ,then parent process
waiting for the result .
2 memory consumption.

3. Share the best practices that you follow when you configure the process model

4. In production –how will you restart the process if the node is failed?
Ans:-Go to monitoring mode. Then we open the instance and we will check the error.
Then we copy the node and fix the error for that instance, and the restart the node.

5. Difference between action and related action


Ans:-
6. Have you worked on triggering based on email? If yes, assume there is write to data
store smart service is Configured in the process. How will you configure the security?

Ans:- Process start node the select the Email option and then we the email address like
[email protected]

7. Why activity chaining is required. Please share the scenario that you used in project?

8. How will you verify the process mode execution in production/test?

9. Have you configured SOAP/REST smart services in process model? If yes please name
the smart services for the same.
10. What are different gateways available? Please explain the each one with example
11. Have you worked on sending an email attachment or HTML body using process model?
If yes how will you configure
Ans:- toemailaddress() and toemailresipiant().

12. Have you configured process model to upload excel and parse the data? Please share
the steps And the appian smart service/function which is used to read the excel data to
CDT.
13. Have you worked on process upgrade? If yes why that’s required. Share the use case
14. Have you configured process report? Steps for the configuration. How will you Query the
process report data?
15. What is knowledge center?
16. How will you configure write to multiple data store entities smart service?
17. Have you worked on MNI-muitplenode instance? Pro’s and cons
Ans:- Pros
1 Easy to manage
2 It make process lighter.
3 u can delete the old instance of that node.
Cons
1 if we use looping then our process become heavy because we have to create multiple
variable to manage.

DataTypes, Functions
1. What are the different data types in appian?
2. What is datasubset? When the output return tyoe will be in datasubset?
3. How will you identify the running process.processparameter?
4. Difference between pp,pm,pv?
5. What is CDT ?
6. What is data store entity? Why this is required?
7. What is xsd?
8. Have used q!queryentity in your project? If yes share the best practices that need to
followed when you configure this object? What is the return type of a!queryentity?
9. Explain the difference between with vs load?
What are the other options available instead of with/load?
Please tell me example for a!localvariables, a!refreshvariable
10. What is a!save. When this can be used?

Object/integration
1. Explain WEBAPI? Steps for configuring
2. Also how will you test the webapi and security setup is working for webapi
3. Have you used connected systems
have you integrated the Appian with Docusign/AWS/GSuite or any other tools?
difference between REST vs SOAP?
how will you call REST API from Appian and parse the output to CDT?
4. Please share the steps
how will you call SOAP Service from Appian and parse the output to CDT?
5. Please share the steps
how will you validate the REST API return call.
6. please share the integration project that you worked. What are the realtime challenges?
7. Have you used Postman or SOAP UI (this is not direct appian question). If yes how
this tool
8. Helps in Appian integration projects

User Interface
1. Please share different layouts and layout elements
2. How will you configure the interface which allows them to upload documents? How the
documents will be saved and retrieved?
3. Have you used dropdown and dropdown index?
4. How will you configure milestone
5. What are the different types of links?
6. Difference between a!startprocesslink and a!startprocess model

Reports and DB

1. What are the different reports available in Appian?


2. Please share the different chart?
3. Have you configured export to excel in your project?if yes, Please share the steps.
4. How will you call storeprocedure from the appian. Please share the steps
5. How the views can be access from appian?
6. Have you created any views?

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