Appian ACD201 case studies
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The Appian Certified Developer credential (often referenced by the code ACD201) is a professional certification offered by Appian for practitioners who design and build applications on the Appian low-code automation platform. Appian describes its education and certification offering as a way to "Learn Appian with online and in-person courses," positioning certification within its customer-success and developer-enablement programs. The Appian ACD201 case studies are 5 cases and about 2,927 words.
1The 4-Second Grid That Only Slows Down for Managers
A case management app has a record type Case with 2.1 million rows. A read-only grid on the main dashboard queries Case and runs acceptably (about 1.2 s) for most users.
619 words, about 3 min2Approval Routing When the Approver Is on Leave
A purchase request process routes to the requester's direct manager for approval, then to Finance for requests over 10,000. The manager is resolved from an HR record type at the moment the task is created.
592 words, about 3 min3The Form That Validates Too Late
A 40-field intake form is built as a single interface with a flat layout. Users complain about three things: (a) they only learn a required field is missing when they hit Submit, and the error appears at the top while the offending field is far down the page; (b) a section of 12 fields is only relevant when "Request type = Exception," but it is always visible and always validated, so users fill in nonsense to get past it; (c) on mobile, the form is unusable - fields are tiny and the submit button is unreachable without extensive scrolling.
558 words, about 3 min4The Integration That Retries Forever
An integration calls a third-party payment API to charge a card and write back the result to a Payment record. The API is occasionally slow and returns HTTP 500 under load.
572 words, about 3 min5Who Can See the Salary Column
An HR application stores compensation data on an Employee record type. Access is currently controlled by a single group, HR Users , which grants view access to all employee records.
586 words, about 3 min