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Process Nodes and Smart Services

The Appian process modeler palette contains all of the nodes and Appian smart services that can be used to define a process workflow. These activities are broken into two main categories: workflow nodes and smart services. Workflow nodes consist of human tasks, BPMN activities, events, and gateways. Smart services are flow activities that integrate specialized business services, like sending e-mails or writing data to a database.

Refer to the following tables for more information about workflow nodes or smart services:

Workflow

Automation Smart Services


Workflow

Workflow nodes consist of Human Tasks, Activities, Events, and Gateways. Human Tasks are human in the loop activities such as an activity used to assign a task to a user or group. Activities are used within process workflow to capture or process business data. Events allow designers to start, stop, or continue the progress of workflows. Gateway are used for workflow control.


Automation Smart Services

Smart services provide specialized business services. Smart services are, by default, unattended, meaning the activity will execute once activated. However, certain smart services can be configured as attended. Many of the attended smart services also have an associated smart service function available, which can be used in an Appian expression to invoke that smart service independent of a process model.

Tip:  Deprecated smart services are only accessible through Search.

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