What are the NEW features added in 21.4 Appian Release?

Hello, Appian Developers!

Hope you all are doing well and safe in this pandemic. So, today we are gonna learn about the new release of Appian i.e, 21.4 Appian Release. In this article, we will talk about the new things added to the 21.4 release of Appian. The Appian team is working hard and coming up with the new features, functions etc in its every release.

As far I have gone through the academy videos and community, I found that New features are added from mainly 6 topics which are newly added to the 21.4 Appian release.

1. Automation
2. Interface Design
3. Records
4. App Deployment and Monitoring
5. Application Design
6. Mobile App Development

I have not covered all the topics which are added to the 21.4 Appian Release. I covered the important features which are added to this new release, especially helpful for the freshers to Appian.

Records:

Skip Failed Syncs:

Now Appian introduced a new feature to Records, you can skip failed syncs. It means if your record type got syncs failed, this new feature will skip the failed syncs and it will simply use the data from the last successful sync.

You can turn Off-On skip failed syncs from record type object as below screenshot.

Alerts for Failed Syncs:

Now record type admins and system admins will receive an email if any syncs are failed or skipped without configuring any additional steps. This email alert will explain the details about record type failures and how you can troubleshoot to resolve this issue.

Important Points about Record Type:

• A single batch can be retried up to 3 times before failing.
• Up to 10 retries total before the entire sync fails.
• Enhancements to the record type object.
• "Search" is now "Search and User Filters" and "Views" is now "Views and Headers".
• Improved layout for configuring the record views.

Interface:

Appian introduced the new feature in the Interface i.e, Card Choice Component as a virtually engaging alternative to checkboxes and radio buttons.

We can also decorate the bar with cards to attract and enhance the user experience in terms of UI design.

Introduced two new interface patterns Tabs(Cards) and Tabs(Lightweight).

Appian introduced some new functions as below:

• a!keys()
• a!isNullOrEmpty()
• a! isNotNullOrEmpty()
• a!doesGroupExist()

The main feature which I love the most in the 21.4 Appian release is that now New Application will add the groups and folders automatically. While creating a new application, you can see an option to check if you want the application to create groups and folders automatically.

Once you checked the checkbox, you will see the below popup window that will show how groups and folders will be added automatically.

It will also use them in any new objects you create in the application which started with the application itself.

it specifies the default securities for the new objects.

 
Appian improved its searching functionality to search the applications faster by using the prefix of the application name.

Powerful New Design Capabilities:

• Wizards
• Custom Validations
• Cascading Dropdowns
• Conditional Displays

Please like and share if you like the new features of the 21.4 Appian release.

Happy Learning 😊!