Hey, is it day 35? Wow. Oh, I got stuff on my nose. I Think it's black charcoal. I use so much charcoal Good morning day 35 Sunday, I Hope you're all doing well. I hope you're making art every day. I Have lots to talk about because I just got back from Paris with Rebecca and we visited so many art galleries And that's the answer to the title of this video How an easy way to get inspired is visit art galleries in person, okay? Yes Okay, so I'm just gonna go through some things that how hey, South Africa Debbie. I'm in Canada Canada I've been back at the hospital because of this brown recluse spider bite Oh, hey afternoon. It's very early. It's 5 30 in the morning where I am and Yes, the brown recluse spider bite just kicked my butt. It's been two months of antibiotics Anyways I'm gonna show you some things. Maybe this will be a bit of art history helps to Rebecca and I both went to school for art history. We love this stuff. So I Have a piece called the seasons. I'm copying Alphonse Muka's piece see and So there's winter I'm working on right now because it's winter here And then I put these upside down to look at them differently Then it goes spring and then it's gonna go summer and then it's gonna go fall and these canvases are built to the exact size as these ones Which you can go to Prague and see which is amazing So these are all notes that I took from Historic paintings in Paris that I'm going to use for this piece so for example in the religious art There's lots of gold circles around people's heads and I like that idea. I already have circles around each of their heads So I don't know if they'll be gold, but I took a lot from this some of them have red lines shooting out Most lots of them are outlined in actual red So it's gold behind the head and red. That's it. That's a common theme. See so You just go to an art gallery and walk around and look and you start to see like oh, I love the size of that piece Oh, I love that color.  I Was surprised by how amazing it was to go see art in real person See like for example like these pieces this frame I just like how they did the frame It's black and then it bevels in and it's gold. So I'll do something like that. These are my notes And these are my notes. Holy crap So take a sketchbook and a pen Or have a notes going on your phone and just walk through art galleries Next So that's halos and I got I found out what they were called Nimbus Oriole a glory or a glory all that's the name for a gold Around your head and I have one right like right there Didn't even know So this is something I've been I was probably influenced by that art Next is um, so we were at the another museum and I was like don't want to put wings on any of these girls. I don't know. I don't know Maybe in the spring a dragonfly and then this this is a painting I don't I think this is Monet or something, but I took a picture because look I one of them Maybe can be holding an umbrella in the spring But I don't know if that will work On the hands aren't in the right position for the spring, so I don't know unless the umbrellas like upside down All right next so there's this oops There's this huge piece. I should learn the names of these artists. This was in the in the Louvre in Paris Me and Rebecca went for the first time. Oh my gosh, you got to go there and she's holding this thing of light And I found it quite powerful just to see and this piece is huge like I'd probably come up to like here on it Maybe it's amazing But they're one of their hands might hold something like that see and that's inspiration by going to an art gallery Another one in the Louvre walked past this statue and this this this chick is holding this another person in her hands So same thing. Can I put some one of them can be to be holding another? person a Skull holding a skull so fall is gonna have a skull right here. See and then this So look out of I guess they're all religious references, right? But these holes with light coming out of them. I found it's very interesting. Okay inspiration one way to get inspiration and It's not stealing it's inspiration It's art evolving and growing on itself okay, next I wrote it on a list because I I forget what to say it. I freeze up. So here's my list yet visit art scholars in person Inspiration oh visit art studios in person artist studios Oh my gosh so artist studios This place is An artist studio we got to go into and I believe this is the studio of the one that did this This is one of rebecca's favorite pieces of art. It's lithography So we went here and I I'm not sure if this is his studio or if it was someone else's So I just want to build a ladder like that So I can get up to my cabinets So that was inspiration. I want to build this thing. Look at it's like a little overhead thing And the artist would keep their art up there And they had little chairs down there and art stuff so you can just create so much more room So I'm going to build that right here I'm going to build that right here and we'll put canvases on top that's inspiration and then This is a street artist in paris and I really like the way They stored their chalk pastels. So I'm going to get a tackle box to do that Here's something interesting Guys I could go on all day with paris inspirations all day This is so rebecca's one of rebecca's favorite pieces The Montmartre is where it is in paris. You should go Just uh rebecca really loves this and I love it and look at she's like wearing the same thing as this This chick with cats on her and dogs and it is just so perfect because rebecca is just such an animal lover All right, so here's something very interesting So this this is called the chat noir and they're posters and there's tons of different the chat noir posters The chat noir Is actually it was a meeting place for artists The chat noir was a meeting place for artists So they'd advertise so that you can go and watch them put on Art and theater and so the artists would get together poets Well, I don't know a bunch of artists would get together and they're all these freaking famous artists It's so cool So that was kind of need to know that the chat war was more wasn't just a piece of art. It was like and I it was like an idea So I want to do that. I want to have the chat noir and so does rebecca be so cool Um What else here's another inspiration So just I I saw this right and it was gold with black outlines on white And so that's I'm gonna finish these ones. I'm gonna put gold black outlines on white. I have these like These were sculptures photos of sculptures And golden black Okay, I think I've gone long enough Thanks for watching and listening. I hope you're making art I have an idea for how to Uh Because a bunch of people are doing this too 100 days of art We get messages on instagram. We see things people using that hashtag 100 days of art Um comments and youtube like I don't know how many people but there's there's some So I'm thinking If you're doing this 100 days of art, can you take a photo or video of your art and And like write a little sentence or two about if you've noticed anything from making art every single day Because I definitely notice it makes me um makes me much calmer in the rest of my life And it makes me much More excited about life and it makes me It makes me happy to uh to be alive Which is really cool And I only got that by painting art every single day Okay, I hope I can do something to benefit uh You I think it will and then and then the weird thing is it benefits other people too because you're making art Okay, go to an art gallery We take videos or photos of your art And share that with us somehow I want to get all that stuff and collect it and we'll put something out and we'll link to all your work and Just and just show everyone else what other people are doing.  I hope you're making stuff


from theCUBE Studios in Palo Alto in Boston. It's theCUBE, covering IBM Think. Brought to you by IBM. Hi everybody, this is Dave Vellante. We're back at the IBM Think 2020 digital event experience, our socially responsible and distant. I'm here in the studios in Malboro, our team in Palo Alto. We've been going wall-to-wall coverage of IBM Think. Kit Chi is here. He's the vice president and general manager of cloud and enterprise sales at Intel. Kit, thanks for coming on, good to see you. Thank you Dave, thank you for having me on. You're welcome. And Everistus Mansaw is here. Mansaw, he is the general manager of the IBM CloudPak ecosystem for the IBM Cloud. Everistus, good to see you again. Thank you very much. Appreciate your time. Thank you Dave, thank you very much. Thanks for having me. You're welcome. So Kit, let me start with you. How are you guys doing? You know, this pandemic, never seen it before. How are things where you are? Yeah, so we were quite fortunate. Intel's had an epidemic leadership team for about 15 years now. We had a team consisting of medical safety and operational professionals. And this same team who has navigated this across several other health issues like birth, flu, Ebola, Zika and each one virus, they're navigating us at this point with this pandemic. Obviously our top priority as it would be for IBM is protecting the health and well-being of employees while keeping the business running for our customers. The company has taken the following measures to take care of a direct and indirect workforce, Dave, and to ensure business continuity throughout the developing situation. They're from areas like work from home policies, keeping hourly workers whole and reimbursing for daycare, elderly care, helping with Wi-Fi costs, et cetera, et cetera. So that's been what we've been up to. Intel's manufacturing and supply chain operations around the world are working hard to meet demand and we are collaborating with supply chains of our customers and partners globally as well. And more recently, we earmarked $60 million to support communities from frontline healthcare workers and technology initiatives like online education, telemedicine and compute needs research. So that's what we've been up to, Dave. You're pretty much busy. Everistus, I got to come to you. I have to say my entire career I've been in the technology business and sometimes you hear negative toward the big tech, but I got to say, just as Kit was saying, big tech has really stepped up in this crisis. IBM's been no different and tech for good. And it's actually, I'm really proud. How are you doing in New York City? No, thank you, Dave, for that. You know, we're doing great and our focus has been absolutely the same. So obviously, because we provide services to clients at a time like this, your clients need you even more, but we need the focus on our employees to make sure that their health and their safety and their wellbeing is protected. And so we've taken this really seriously and actually we had two ways of doing this. One of them is just our own focus as a company on our clients. But the other is trying to activate the ecosystem because problems of this magnitude require you to work across the broad ecosystem to bring forth solutions that are long lasting. For example, we have a call for code, which where we go out and we ask developers to use their skills and open those technologies to help some people problems. This year, the focus were of other initiatives around the computing resources, how you track the coronavirus and other services that are provided free of charge to our clients. Let me give you a bit more of a call. So IBM recently formed the high performance computing consortium made up of the federal government, industry and academic leaders focused on providing high performance computing to solve the COVID-19 problem. So currently we have 33 members and we have 27 active projects, deploying something like 400 teraflops, I saw a petaflops, 400 petaflops of compute to solve the problem. Well, certainly this is challenging times, but at the same time, you're both in a sweet spot, which is cloud. I've talked to a number of CIOs who have said, you know, this is really, we had a cloud strategy before, but we're really accelerating our cloud strategy now. And we see this as sort of a permanent effect.  We are Dave. And honestly, that's a huge responsibility that we undertake. Before the pandemic, we saw the market through the lens of four e megatrends and the experiences we are all having currently now deepens our belief in the importance of addressing these megatrends. Specifically, we see marketplace needs around the areas of product creation of everything. The point, the amount of online activities that have spiked just in the last 60 days, it's a testimony of that. Pervasive AI is the second big area that we have seen and we are now resolute on investments in that area. 5G network transformation and the edge build out. Applications run the business and we know enterprise IT faces challenges when deploying applications that require data movement between clouds. And cloud-native technologies like containers and Kubernetes will be key enablers in delivering end-to-end data analytics, AI, machine learning and other critical workloads in cloud environments and at the edge. Pairing Intel's data-centric portfolio, including Intel's obtained SSDs with Red Hat, OpenShift and IBM cloud packs. Enterprise can now break through storage bottlenecks and have unconstrained data availability in the hybrid and multi-cloud environments. So we're pretty happy with the progress we're making together with IBM.  I've written and discussed in my breaking analysis, I think a lot of people misunderstand IBM's cloud. Ginni Rametti, Arvin, have both said, hey, we're after only 20% of the workloads are in cloud, we're going after the really difficult to move workloads and the hybrid workloads. Really the fourth foundation that Arvin talks about that IBM has built, you know, you got mainframes, you got middleware services and then hybrid cloud is really that fourth sort of platform that you're building out. But you're making some bets in AI, you've got other services in the cloud like blockchain, you know, quantum. We've been having really interesting discussions around quantum. So I wonder if you could talk a little bit about sort of where you're allocating resources, some of the big bets that you're making for the next decade. Well, thank you very much, Dave, for that. I think what we're seeing with clients is that there's an increasing focus and really an acceptance that the best way to take advantage of the cloud is through a hybrid cloud strategy infused with data. So it's not just the cloud itself, but actually what you need to do to data in order to make sure that you can really, truly transform yourself digitally to enable you to improve your operations and use your data to improve the way that you work and improve the way that you serve your clients. And what we see is, and you see studies out there that say that if you adopt a hybrid cloud strategy, it's sort of 2.5 times more effective than a public cloud-only strategy. And why is that? Well, you get things such as, you know, the opportunity to move your applications, the extent to which you move your applications to the cloud, you get things such as, you know, reduction in risk. You get a more flexible architecture, especially if you focus on open certification, reduction in certification, reduction in some of the tools that you use. And so we see clients looking at that. The other thing that's really important, especially in this moment, is business agility and resilience. And business agility says that if my customers used to come in, now they can't come in anymore because we need them to stay at home, we still need to figure out a way to serve them. And we write our applications quickly enough in order to serve this new client or to serve this client in a new way. Well, if your applications haven't been modernized, even if you move to the cloud, you don't have the opportunity to do that. And so many clients that have made that transformation figure out they're much more agile, they can move more easily in this environment. And we're seeing the call for clients and yes, I do need to move to the cloud, but I need somebody to help improve my business agility so that I can transform, I can change with the needs of my client and with the demands of the competition. And this leads you then to, what sort of platform do you need to enable you to do this? It's something that's open so that you can write that application once, you can run it anywhere, which is why I think the IBM's position with our ecosystem and Red Hat with this open container Kubernetes environment that allows you to write application once and deploy anywhere is really important for clients in this environment, especially at the cloud packs which you develop which I general manage the cloud pack ecosystem. The logic of the cloud packs is exactly that you'll want clients and want to modernize, you want to write the applications that are cloud native so that they can react more quickly to market conditions, they can react more quickly to what their clients need. And if they do so, they're not then locked in a specific infrastructure that keeps them away from some of the technologies that may be available in other clouds. So we have talked about it, blockchain. We've got Watson AI technology which is available in our cloud. We've got the weather company assets, those are key assets for many, many clients because weather influences more than we realize. So, but if you were locked in a cloud, I didn't give you access to any of those because you haven't written on the same platform. That's not something that you want to support. And so Red Hat's platform, which is our platform, which is open allows you to write your application once and it's open to customers anyway. It's particularly helpful for customers in this particular environment to get out of the data pieces that come on top of that so that you can scale, scale, right? Because you've got six people, but you need 600 of them. How do you scale them so they can use data and AI? Okay, this must be music to your ears, this whole notion of multi-cloud because Intel's pervasive. And so the more clouds that are out there, the better for you, better for your customers, as I said before, the more optionality. Can you talk a little bit about the relationship today between IBM and Intel? Because it's obviously evolved over the years, PCs, servers, other collaboration. Nearly the cloud is the latest and probably the most relevant part of your collaboration. But talk more about what that's like, what you guys are doing together that's interesting and relevant. You know, IBM and Intel have had a very rich history of collaboration, starting with the invention of the PC. So for those of us who may take the PC for granted, that was an invention over 40 years ago between the two companies, all the way to optimizing leadership IBM software like DB2 to run the best on Intel's data center products today, right? But what's more germane today is the Rithad piece of the story and how that plays into a partnership with IBM going forward. Intel was one of Rithad's earliest investors back in 1998. Again, something that most people may not realize that we were an early investor to Rithad. And we've been a long time pioneer of open source. In fact, Navin Chenoy, Intel's executive vice president of data platforms group was part of all Commies pick off at Rithad Summit just last week. You should definitely go listen to that session, but in summary, together Intel and Rithad have made commercial open source viable and enterprise and worldwide computing globally basically now used by nearly every vertical and horizontal industry. We are bringing our customers choice, scale of a living and speed of innovation for key technologies today, such as security, Calco, NLV and containers, Kubernetes and most recently Rithad OpenShift. We're very excited to see IBM CloudPacks, for example, standardized on top of OpenShift as that builds the foundation for IBM's chapter two and allows for Intel's value to scale to the CloudPacks and ultimately IBM's customers. Intel began partnering with IBM on what is now CloudPacks over two years ago and we are committed to that success and scaling that through our ecosystem, hardware partners, ISVs and our channel. Yeah, so the queue, by the way, covered Rithad Summit last week. Stu Miniman and I did a detailed analysis. It was awesome. If we do say so ourselves, but awesome in the sense that it allowed us to really sort of unpack what's going on at Rithad and what's happening at IBM. Eversus, I want to come back to you on this CloudPack. You got, it's the kind of brand that you guys have. You got CloudPacks all over the place. You got CloudPack for applications, data, integration, automation, multi-cloud management. What do we need to know about CloudPack? What are the relevant components there? I think the key components is, so this is, think of this as in a software that is designed, that is cloud native, is designed for specific core use cases. And it's built on Rithad Enterprise Linux with Rithad OpenShift Container Kubernetes environment. And then on top of that, so you get a set of common services that go right across all of them. And then on top of that, you've got specific, both open source and IBM software that deals with specific client situations. So if you're dealing with applications, for example, the open source and IBM software would be the runtimes that you need to write and deploy applications, DevSecOps. If you're dealing with data, then you've got CloudPack for data. The foundation is still Rithad Enterprise Linux sitting on top of, with Rithad OpenShift Container Kubernetes environment sitting on top of that, providing a set of common services. And then you've got a combination of IBM's own, IBM's own software as well as open source. And we have third party software that sits on top of that as well. And all of our AI infrastructure that sits on top of that and machine learning to enable you to do everything that you need to do data to get inside that data. You've got automation to speed up how and to enable us to do work more efficiently, more effectively, to make your smart workers better, to make management easy, to help management manage work and processes. And then you've got multi-cloud management that allows you to see from a single pane all of your applications that you've deployed in the different cloud because the idea here of course is they're not all sitting in the same cloud. Some of it is on-prem, some of it is in other cloud and you want to be able to see and deploy applications across all of those. And then you've got the cloud factor security which has a combination of third-party offerings as our ISV offerings as well as AI offerings. Again, the structure is the same, rail, right at OpenShift. And then you've got the software that enables you to manage all aspects of security and to deal with incidents when they arrive. So that gives you data applications and then there's integration. So every time you start writing an application, you need to integrate, you need to access data security from some place. You need to bring two pipes together for them to communicate. And we use the cloud pack for integration to allow us to do that. You can open up APIs and expose those APIs so others writing applications can gain access to those APIs. And again, this idea of resilience, this idea of agility, so you can make changes and you can adapt to pick up things from it. So that's what the cloud pack provides for you and Intel have been an absolutely fantastic partner for us. One of the things that we do with Intel, of course, is to work on the reference architecture to help our certification program for our hardware OEMs so that we can scale that process, get many more OEMs, adopt and be ready for the cloud packs. And then we work with some of the ISV partners and the variety of different. Got it. Let's talk about the edge. You mentioned 5G. I mean, it's a really exciting time.  I mean, everything's getting instrumented. Data everywhere. And so I'm interested in, let's start with Intel's point of view on the edge, how that's going to evolve, what it means to cloud. You know, Dave, it is definitely the future and we're excited to partner with IBM here. In addition to enterprise edge, the communication service providers, think of the telcos, can take advantage of running standardized open software at the telco edge, enabling a range of new workloads via scalable services, something that, you know, couldn't happen in the past, right? Earlier this year, Intel announced new Xeon second generation scalable Atom-based processes, targeting the 5G radio access network. So this is a new area for us in terms of investments going into 5G brand. By deploying these new technologies with cloud-native platforms like Red Hat OpenShift and IBM CloudPact, com service providers can now make full use of their network investments and bring new services such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality and gaming for the market. We've only touched the surface as it comes to 5G and telco and what IBM, Red Hat and Intel can do together. So I would say, you know, this space is super, super interesting as more developed, we're just getting started. Hey, versus, what do you think this means for cloud and how that will evolve? Is this sort of a new cloud that'll form at the edge? Obviously, a lot of data is going to stay at the edge. Probably new architectures are going to emerge. And again, to me, it's all about data. You're going to create more data, push more data back to the cloud so you can model it. Some of the data is going to have to be done at real time at the edge, but it just really extends the network to new horizons. It does exactly that, Dave. And we think of it, which is why our platform is pretty much the same, right? You wouldn't be surprised to see that the platform is based on open containers and our Kubernetes container environment provided by Red Hat. And so whether your data ends up living at the edge or your data lives in a private data center or it lives in some public cloud and how it flows between all of them, we want to make it easy for our clients to be able to do that. So this is very exciting for us. We just announced our IBM Edge Application Manager that allows you to basically deploy and manage applications at endpoints of all these devices. So we're not talking about 2030, we're talking about thousands and hundreds of thousands of devices. And in fact, we're working with, we're getting device, Intel's device onboarding, which will enable us to use that because you can get that and you can onboard devices very, very easily at scale, which if you get that combined with IBM Edge Application Manager, then it helps you onboard the devices and it helps you to be able to send code on all the devices. So we think this is really important. We see lots of workload moving on to edge devices. Many of these devices and endpoints now have sufficient compute to be able to run them. But right now, if they're IoT devices, the data has been transferred to hundreds of miles away to some data center to be processed at enormous cost. And then only 1% of that actually is useful, right? 99% of it gets thrown away. Some of that actually has data residency requirements. So you may not be able to move the data to. So why wouldn't you just process the data, where the data is created, around your analytics, where the data is created? And you have situations that are disconnected as well. So you can't actually do that. You don't want to stop the slow in the supermarket because there's your lost connectivity with your data center. And so the importance of being able to work offline and IBM Edge application manager actually allows you. So it's autonomous, so you can do all of this without using lots of people because it's a process that is also sort of automated. But you can work whether you're connected or you're disconnected. And then you get replication when you get really powerful for us. I think the developer model is going to be really interesting here. Is there so many new use cases and applications? Of course, Intel's always had a very strong developer ecosystem, IBM understands the importance of developers. Guys, we've got to wrap, but I wonder if you could each maybe start with Kit. Give us your sense as to where you want to see this partnership go. What can we expect over the next two to five years and beyond? I think it's just the area of 5G and how that plays out in terms of Edge build out that we just touched on. Dave, that's a really interesting space. What Aristo said is spot on, the processing and the analytics of the Edge is still fairly nascent today and that's growing. So that's one area. Building out the cloud for the different enterprise applications is the other one.  It's not just a public cloud world or an on-prem world. So the whole hybrid build out, or what I call hybrid 2.0 is upon us. And so the work that both of us need to do, IBM and Intel will be critical to ensure that enterprise, IT has solutions across the hybrid sector.  And I would agree with that as well, Kit. I would say there's work that you're doing around the Intel's market-ready solutions, right? Where we can bring our ecosystems together to do even more on Edge, some of these use cases. There's work that we're doing around blockchain which I think against another important area that both companies are working on. And I think what we really need to do is to focus on helping clients because many of them are working through those early cases right now to identify use cases that work. And with that commitment to open standards, using exactly the same standard across, like what you've got on your open retail initiative which we're going to do, I think it's going to be really important to helping out scale. But I wanted to just add one more thing, Dave, if you would commit me. The, in this COVID era, one of the things that we've been able to do for customers which has been really helpful is providing free technology for 90 days to enable them to work in an offline situation, to work away from the office. One example, for example, is just the ability to transfer files and bandwidth. You don't know bandwidth is an issue because the parents and the kids are all working from home. And we have a product called IBM Aspera which will make available to our customers for 90 days at no cost. You don't need to give us your credit card, just log on and use it to improve the way that you work. So your bandwidth feels as if you are in the office. We have Watson Assistant that is now helping clients coordinate in countries exactly the same thing, basically providing COVID information. So those are all available. There's a slew of offerings that we advertise. I just want listeners to know that they can go on the IBM website and they can gain those offerings that they can deploy and use them now. That's huge. I knew about the 90 day program. I didn't realize Aspera was part of that. And that's really important because you're like, okay, how am I going to get this file there? And so thank you for sharing that. And guys, great conversation. Hopefully next year we could be face-to-face, even if we still have to be socially distant, but it was really a pleasure having you on. Thanks so much. Stay safe and good stuff. Appreciate it. Thank you very much, Dave. Thank you, Kate. Thank you. Thank you. All right, thank you for watching everybody. This is Dave Vellante for theCUBE, our wall-to-wall coverage of the IBM Think 2020 digital event experience. We'll be right back right after this short break.


So opioid overdoses are increasing as a problem in the Muslim community and this is happening all over the United States. So our organization, we're basically rooted in Chicago land in the Bay Area, but we hear reports about opioid overdose deaths in the Muslim community, New York, Chicago land, Michigan, Ohio Bay Area we're hearing in the Muslim community. These problems happening and it's good Muslims, good Muslim families, good Muslim people. It's just people that are getting off track and what could have been a problem that they could have learned from and grown from ends up becoming something that just gets worse and we do see this. We do see Muslims that get off track and then acknowledge the problem and get treatment and they reach a potential that they could have possibly not reached had they not had this problem. So in a lot of ways addiction in some ways is like a gift. It's like a incredible learning opportunity that takes people to a level in terms of their development that they may not have had had they not had the addiction in terms of being upright people in the community, their character, some of the most amazing people I've met. But you know that requires them acknowledging the problem and then getting the proper advice and applying themselves to that proper advice to really gain traction on that problem. Now we're in the midst of an opioid crisis and I know we've heard that in the news and it's something that we hear but somehow sort of disconnect from in the sense that oh that's happening over there. The opioid crisis is happening over there but oftentimes what we're seeing is it's happening in our communities. If somebody with an opioid addiction you may pass them in Juma on a weekly basis and it's happening within our families and in our communities. So what is the opioid crisis and how did it start? So for example the opioid crisis started the story goes with increased prescribing of opioids by physicians. So physicians started prescribing more opioids because they were reassured about its safety and that it wasn't addictive. And so increased prescribing of opioids flooded the nation and that led to addiction because the although the addictive potential was understated it ended up being more significant as to what we know now. Then prescription opioids were sort of reduced. People stopped prescribing them. People started to transition to other opioids like heroin and stronger opioids. Now it's been declared a public health emergency. So the opioid crisis has been declared a public health emergency. The question is what's a public health emergency? Like if you look at COVID, COVID is a good example of a public health emergency. It wasn't considered a public health emergency when deaths weren't significant enough. Once it started to increase, once it started to really spread fast and become deadly, that's when it transitioned into becoming a public health emergency. And that's simply because we needed to warn people about it. We needed to have people take precautions about it. We needed to have people who are vulnerable to COVID know that they needed to take extra precautions. People couldn't interact in the same way. We needed to monitor our children's more, children more and our loved ones more. People would come back from school. We'd have to check in with them, make sure they didn't have a fever. Similarly with the opioid epidemic, it wasn't always a public health crisis. It was declared a public health emergency once the deaths started to really add up, once it started to become such a widespread issue that we all needed to be aware of it. People who are vulnerable to addiction, people who could be harmed by it. And it's so widespread now. And the death rates are increasing every year. Opiate overdose deaths are increasing every year. And now it's more likely to die from an opioid overdose death than car crashes or from suicide. Opiate overdose deaths have surpassed these issues. So, okay, so the Muslim community is an immune to these problems. So just like the COVID crisis, we go out, Muslims aren't immune to COVID. The Muslim community is not immune to the opioid epidemic problem also. So, that's something to keep in mind. And why wouldn't it be? We have comparable rates of divorce. We have comparable rates of mental health problems, suicide. And so this is an issue in our community as well. And what's important to recognize is we can acknowledge this without it necessarily being a blemish on Islam. So just because we have these issues in our community doesn't mean it's necessarily a defect in Islam. It's like if you're in a dark room and it's daylight outside. If you're in a dark room and it's daylight outside, that doesn't mean there's a defect in the sun. It means there's something going on in the room. So you just open up the shades, let more light in. These problems that we're facing in our community doesn't necessarily mean it's a defect in Islam. It could simply just be a signal that we need to let more in. And the point is, the point being that spirituality is an important part in the process of recovery from addiction, from opioid addiction. Studies repeatedly show that spirituality and religious participation prevent against addiction. And then also spirituality integrating it into the recovery process after addiction occurs, after people get out of treatment, has been shown to really improve success rates. The most consistent outcome is that people with higher levels of spirituality, people with higher measures of spirituality, have more days of abstinence after treatment than people with lower levels of spirituality. Point being, spirituality is a part of the problem. But if Islam is sort of locking it in place and we're not becoming aware of where we need to apply it, then we're not going to be able to take full advantage of applying that spirituality to the people who need it the most. Okay, so we're seeing increasing opioid overdose deaths in our work at, in our organization as well, Medina House. So Medina House is basically a group of Muslims who've come together who have a, have lived through addiction in some form or the other, whether recovering from addiction or whether living through a family member's addiction. And it's a group of Muslims focusing on addressing the addiction epidemic in Muslim communities and in underserved communities. And the second point about us is that spirituality has been shown, spirituality was very important in our lives to heal from the process. And we've opened a recovery home recently in the Bay Area in Richmond. And we have a recovery home in Chicagoland as well. And we do programs in both of these areas. But we're hearing increasing reports all across the United States about opioid overdose deaths. So this allows us to talk to the communities. And this allows us to see the common pitfalls that Muslims are facing when try to solve this problem. So this allows us to really see patterns in the issues, patterns in the community, pitfalls of where people are making common mistakes. So that's what we want to share for the rest of the talk. So basically, let's talk about it from the perspective of treating addiction. So from the perspective of treating addiction, we can look at the right way to do it. And then we can talk about simply what are some of the pitfalls that we're seeing. So when we think about addiction, we can conceptualize it as affecting the body, the mind, and the soul. So it starts off with, there's different stages for the recovery process. And each stage has a different part that's more emphasized. So in the beginning stage, the body's the main issue, just treating the withdrawal from opioids. In the second stage, the mind is the issue. And the third stage, the soul's issue, or just lifestyle, solidifying lifestyle change. Now, it's like baking a cake. It has to happen. Every treatment has to happen at the right stage. So the body stage, there has to be the right treatment. If we focus on too much on treating the soul at the body stage, we're not going to get traction. If we focus too much on treating the soul at the body stage or the body at the soul stage, we're really not going to get traction. It's like baking a cake, like I mentioned. So when you bake a cake, you've got to mix the ingredients. You've got to put it in a cake pan. And then you put it in the oven and let it bake. If you change the order of that in any way, it's not going to work. So for example, if I don't mix the ingredients, put it in the oven, that's not going to work. That's going to be a cake that doesn't taste good. So everything in its due stage. So for example, the body stage. In the body stage, the most important thing to think about is managing withdrawal. So what is withdrawal? So when people take opioids, they become intoxicated. So what does intoxication look like? Intoxication looks like people will be drowsy, slurred speech. Oftentimes you'll see them nod off when they're using opioids. This is a question that we get often. How do I know if my loved one is addicted to opioids or using opioids? Oftentimes they'll sort of like nod off mid-sentence. So they'll be talking and then they'll kind of nod off or they'll be in the middle of eating. And then they're eating something with the fork.  So that's how intoxication looks with opioids. The withdrawal is the opposite of that. So with withdrawal, what you see is people will be anxious, won't be able to sleep, will be irritable, they'll be restless. Oftentimes you'll see restless leg. And that's how withdrawal looks. This is a huge barrier for people to then get into treatment. This is a huge barrier for people to then get into treatment. Just the idea of having to go into withdrawal prevents people from taking that step. So the most important part at this phase is basically treating the withdrawal. And medications are important at this phase. So for example buprenorphine and other medications have been shown to be helpful at completely relieving opioid withdrawal at this phase. So these medications are an important step. And then not only for treating the discomfort of withdrawal and making it easier to start the recovery process, but it's just been shown to reduce overdose debt. And that's the most important piece I would stress. These medications for opioid addiction have been shown to reduce overdose debt. One study looked at 50,000 people and found that the people that took the medication versus the people that didn't take the medication, the likelihood of death was reduced by 80%. So taking these medications are incredibly important.  So from the perspective of protecting life, these medications are incredibly important. Not necessarily just from the perspective of protecting the intellect or from reducing withdrawal symptoms to make yourself comfortable from the perspective of protecting life. And the common strategy is not to just simply use it through withdrawal, but to use it through all the phases.  And this should be discussed between that person and their physician. But this could be on the order of months. And really that's an individual discussion that needs to happen between patient and physician. And so that's that. So the one thing to keep in mind about withdrawal is that when withdrawal happens, you definitely want to overcome it. Then there's a separate issue of chronic pain. So with chronic pain, sometimes people will start to get off of opioids and they'll develop chronic pain. And that'll be the barrier for them to get off of opioids. So instead of coming off of opioids and having to deal with withdrawal, they get off of opioids and they have to deal with really severe pain. Because opioids treat pain and many people start on their journey to opioids due to pain.  But then the opioids go up and then the pain's less of an issue. And then they start using opioids for both pain and then also to treat this other emotional issue that happened to be going on at that time. And then all of a sudden, slowly and insidiously, they start using opioids simply for the pain. I'm sorry, for the emotional pain. And then that gets out of hand. And then they develop addiction. So when people want to get off of opioids, they have to deal with the withdrawal. But then they have to address the very real problem of how do I treat this pain? How do I treat this chronic pain? So when they treat the chronic pain, you know, you can't just treat the withdrawal without treating the chronic pain. And you can't just treat the pain and not treat the withdrawal. Both things need to be treated at the same time. And again, medications are important for that. There's medications that both treat withdrawal and treat the pain in order to get off. Okay. So that's the body phase. Once you finish with the body phase, then the and the body stabilized, then you have to address the mind. So the mind will start to have these compulsive drive to use opioids. The mind will start to have this compulsive drive to use opioids. So just like the body's shaky, then the mind is shaky as well.  It'll constantly be preoccupied with opioids, constantly be thinking about opioids, so on and so forth. So what's important at this stage is to people need an intense training process in order to get off of opioids, in order to stabilize the mind and in order to to deal with the problem on the level of the mind. And that's best happening at a rehab. That can best happen at a rehab, a residential program or an intensive outpatient program.  So an rehab can be at the residential level of care. It can be at the intensive outpatient level of care. It can be at the outpatient level of care. And it's important to engage in that part. And so, you know, if you focus on the body at this stage, I'm sorry, if you focus on the mind stage, when it's the stage for the body, you won't get traction. You may not get as successful results. If you focus on the soul phase at the phase of the mind, you might not get that much traction. You might not get that much results. And then also we have a brother, Imam Zabi and Molana Suleiman, starting a residential program in our community, a rehab for Muslims in our community in the Bay Area. And it's an absolute worthwhile cause. And people should absolutely support this cause, invest in this cause. And they're working with investors at the moment as well. So, inshallah, you can speak with them, and I actually encourage you to. And then we come to the soul phase. The soul phase is once the body stabilizes and the mind stabilizes, then we have to deal with solidifying this change. So then we solidify the change by just continuing to do this work over and over again. So recovery skills work and all the tools that we have learned in the previous stages, we want to just rinse and repeat and continue to do this work. So the first two phases are very hard. You do a lot of work in order to get that to that place. And then this phase is a phase where you just want to solidify it.  It might even taste like a cake, smell like a cake, but right when you take it out of formation, it's just going to fall apart. So it really needs to happen at this phase is that just giving it some time and putting it in the right environment. If you give it the right time and just put it in the right environment, just over time people's habits will start to solidify. This takes time. So changing habits takes time. It's not going to happen in a matter of days or weeks. This happens in the course of months. So creating new pathways in the brain takes time and it just takes repetition. So it takes, just like baking a cake, it takes being in the right formation. It takes giving it time in the oven and it takes putting it all together properly. So for example, when I say given it the right formation, that means whatever has been working for you, therapy and recovery skills, peer support groups and meetings, all these things you just want to keep doing them on a daily basis. You want to keep that formation. You don't want to after rehab go home and then now sort of relax and have everything taken care of for you. You want to continue learning, working with everything that you learned and continue in the after care program. And you want to continue in an aftercare program or a sober living home in order to continue to work on those problems. And one of the problems that we see is a lot of times people will go to rehab. They'll finally make it to this step and that's great. But then what happens is families are really in a rush to get them back home and sort of because they have to make excuses where have they been, what's been going on. And if we rush to do that too soon, what happens oftentimes is people just aren't ready to be thrown back into work, thrown back into school, thrown back into family and don't have the skills yet to really navigate for the long run. So it's really important to be able to solidify all of that stuff. And it's also important to be in an environment of accountability and support. So if you're going back home and nobody's there to really monitor you or be able to pick up when the drug problem comes back or if you're slipping, that's going to be very different when you do it in the environment of an aftercare program or a sober living home where essentially you're going to be around other people that are recovering from addiction, other people who are going to monitor you, other people who are going to pick it up real quick and be able to figure out that something's missing or something's going on real quick and pull you up. And but if you do it at home with family, you may not have that opportunity, you may not have that option, people might not be able to pick it up. Also, what's important is in addition to accountability is support. So if you're not going to be able to find that back home in the sense that you are not going to be held accountable to do work or some sort of meaningful activity like go to school or keep up with your meetings or keep up with working on yourself, then that's also not going to put you in the best place for success. So keeping in formation, keeping in a tight formation after the rehab is incredibly important. Now, after that, you want to just then go in the right environment, like we said, and give it time. So you want to put it in the oven, you want to bake it, and you want to put it in the right environment and let it solidify. And then you simply want to give it time. So you want to do it over and over again every day, wake up going to meetings and repeating the process. And with all of this, inshallah, the change will occur. And how do you know when you're ready to kind of move on? The same way you would know with the cake. When you poke a cake, how do you know when a cake is ready? You poke the cake, and it's firm. It's not liquid inside. It's not going to crumble. And then you can take it out of the cake pan and it'll stand on its own. And in the same way, usually people know when they're ready to move on to the next step, when they're ready to move on from rehab, or when they're ready to move on from the sober living home, or when they're ready to get off from medications. There'll be something that will show you. And in a lot of ways, once, let's say, a life event happens or a life stressor happens, and you're able to manage that successfully, a lot of times that's a good way to check. So in other words, when you have something to stress you or some sort of pressure that you undergo and you successfully come out of it without using, that is a good indication that you're ready to move on to the next step. And that's it. Yeah, so every stage has its own time. So the mind stage has its own time, the body stage has its own time, and then the soul stage has its own time. And that's something you work on for the rest of your life. So the body stage is on the order of days, the mind stage is on the order of weeks, and then the soul stage is on the order of months, and honestly, the rest of your life. So with that, inshallah, people will be successful. Also, families play an important part in helping people get treatment. Families play an important part in preventing against this problem, and also treating this problem. But it's really important that families are equipped with the proper training in order to manage this problem. There's a lot of pitfalls. It's very hard. When it seems like we're helping, sometimes we can actually be harming. Sometimes when it seems like we're helping, we can actually be harming. Sometimes when it seems like we are supporting the patient or the loved one, we're actually enabling them to continue their use. So that's a tricky thing to navigate. It's a slippery slope, and there's a lot of places to go in order to learn how to do that. So for example, family groups, there's a family group over here on Saturdays at 11 a.m. It actually just finished up. So that exists. Family groups are important because what they do is they help families learn, how do I get my loved one into treatment? A lot of the calls we get is, I want my family member to get in treatment, but they're not ready. They don't want to get help, and it's important to recognize we can't control our loved one. There's nothing we can really do from the perspective of controlling the behavior, but there's a lot we can do by focusing on our behavior and how it affects them and interacts with them. And a large part of that is just learning what is enabling and how to prevent that from happening. That's not something you can really learn in one shot. Maybe you can get an intro to it, but it's important to go and get to a place where other people have learned about this and can guide you along that process and find success. So other people struggling with the same problem who have been successful and can hold you accountable to trying to set boundaries with your loved one, so on and so forth. And that exists as well. So with that, Insha'Allah, we'll stop a little early. If there's questions, feel free to ask, and if there's questions online, we'll ask them. Otherwise, Insha'Allah, we'll wrap up there. Yeah, that's a good question. So the question was spirituality and religion, they're often used separately, and can they be used interchangeably, and which stage should you introduce that in? So essentially, in the rooms of recovery, there's a lot of talk about the difference of spirituality and recovery. One of the sayings that people say, it's hard to define, really, spirituality is hard to define, and then it's hard to define why make a change between the two, why make a differentiation between the two.  Really, there's no differentiation between spirituality and religion. It's all the same. Spirituality is a dimension of religion. But just for teaching purposes, it's easy to separate it out. Like we separate out, for example, like Akhita, we separate out Fik, or parts of the Dean that are associated with practice, we separate out. Parts of the Dean that are associated with our beliefs, we separate out as a teaching tool, and then parts of the Dean that are associated with developing the heart and our character, we separate out, and we call it the science of Teschia, or self-reformation, or spirituality. And so in a lot of ways, people who are struggling with addiction, when they come into recovery, a lot of times there's a lot of shame, a lot of guilt. They've gone through a lot of suffering. They've thought about things on a really deep level. So they're philosophical in the sense that they've thought deeply about the meaning of suffering. Like for example, what does it mean that I'm the bad one? When I've lived my life, why am I with addiction the bad one? When I've lived my life as a result and a consequence of other people doing bad things to me. So for example, a lot of people with addiction will have, it's a history of trauma, a history of abuse, a history of parental conflict, a history of other issues, mental health issues. So they've gone through a lot of difficulties. And those are risk factors for developing addiction. So when people come to recovery, they have a lot of shame, a lot of guilt, but they're also thinking about things deeply. And spirituality oftentimes can be an open concept. Whereas people may look at religion or have certain ideas about religion that are more of a closed concept, which are more, in reality, probably based on their own personal experiences. A lot of people grow up and they have really positive experiences about with religion, spirituality. And then sometimes it's easier to grasp onto spirituality as a starting point. And then when we look at Life of the Prophet, the Sahaba, they started with working on themselves. And then all the rules, all the Ahqam came down later, like fasting, the Qad, the full form of Salah, Hajj, all that came down later, much later, when they were all in Medina. So when in the first 10, 15 years, the Prophet was really working on the hearts of people and their belief system. Similarly, all the shorter surahs and the Meccan surahs are short surahs focused on the heart and the belief system. And when the heart and the thinking was sort of leaning towards Islam and the hearts were filled with Islam, then all these rules came out and all the lifestyle came down, which was there to protect that spirituality and was there to achieve higher levels of spirituality. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I would argue whenever the patient is, whenever the person's ready. So you have people that, you know, people come from all walks of life with addiction. Every story is different. So you have people that have been in and out of recovery and they've maybe traveled down the spiritual path for a while and slipped because, let's say, they lost their loved one. Let's say their child passed away and then they, you know, that's so overwhelming for them. They go back to using substances for a short period of time. So, you know, they're already in, they're ready to really engage in spirituality and pick it up even while they're going through withdrawal and while they're going through this whole process, if they go into withdrawal, some people don't go through withdrawal. So they start right away. Other people, it may be something that they grew up with and they're open to, but they are just not ready to start talking and thinking about it because it's something that they, maybe there's a lot of shame there. There's a lot of pain there. And maybe there's other experiences there where they're just not ready to discuss it. And so it's just about meeting people where they're at and giving them what they need at that moment and slowly stringing them along to the next moment of what's good for them. Yeah, so it's definitely different for every person. Yeah, you know, that's hard to say. You know, from the perspective of data, there's not a lot of data to describe it. So the question is, do we see rates of addiction and relapse that are similar or different in the Muslim population and utilization of care? Yeah, yeah, so that's a really good question. So, you know, so everything that I talk about would be somewhat anecdotal and what our group has seen or talked about based on what they're all seeing in the community. But what I will say is from our experience, we definitely do see, we don't see, like I can tell you, for example, at the hospital I work at, we treat addiction in the hospital. And we treat addiction, you know, Monday through Friday, we're seeing patients. It's a catchment that's open to the public in the Palo Alto, San Mateo County area. Now, we run a lot of demographic data on that service and the data really, you know, ethnically and racially really mirrors what we see in the general population in terms of that breakdown. And when it comes to Muslims, we're seeing Muslims represented on that service in same numbers and same percentages as they are in the general population. So, there's no lack of the problem. What I do see is that the addiction looks the same in Muslim communities and the treatment looks the same essentially. The spirituality, sure, it's going to be, it's going to have a Muslim feel to it. But a lot of times the barriers to treatment, to get into treatment, are uniquely Muslim. They're exceptional. They're very different than what I deal with. So, what I deal with that is nonprofit is very different. That's focused on Muslims. There does a lot of Muslim outreach. It's very different stories than what I hear about in my day job, where I'm just dealing with the general public. The sort of barriers that we hear, and some of those are not necessarily Islamic barriers. They're not Islamic barriers, but they're more so due to cultural barriers, cultural issues that Islam's housed in, in these families and places. There's a brother that's coming out with a study. He presented it at the Canada Muslim Mental Health Conference some time ago. And he presented some numbers that showed that Muslims, based on epidemiological data in the U.S., he presented that Muslim, the rate of Muslims with addiction is comparable to the rate of addiction in the general population. In fact, the numbers were higher. And so, and the other thing that he presented was that Muslims born outside the country versus Muslims that are born in the country, it was close to a 50-50 split. I can't remember the exact number, but the percentage was in the 50s. It's half and half. So, this is not like a problem. And that's certainly what we're seeing in our organization when we get calls. We're seeing people from all different backgrounds, all different backgrounds. Sure, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think addressing trauma is incredibly important throughout the whole process. So, when it comes to, you know, there's the ACEs study, which looked at childhood adverse experiences and then how that relates to people developing addiction later in their life. So, they would say, if you had one adverse childhood experience, it increases your likelihood by this percentage. If you had two, it goes up higher and higher. That included emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and other forms of trauma and other adverse experiences. So, certainly trauma is something that, if it's unaddressed, can put somebody in a vulnerable position to address addiction. And here's the thing. People think like, it's what happens is this person has history of trauma. And so, now they're constantly thinking about that trauma, and they use drugs and alcohol to alleviate that or escape that. A part of that's true, but trauma also leads to other physiological and psychological problems. So, for example, you can have, let's say, somebody has a history of abuse, and then they develop a separate issue of, like, a chronic anxiety. And so, it's not necessarily they're anxious because they're constantly preoccupied with their trauma. It's because of something that's fractured within them at an age where they really didn't have the vocabulary to process it. And so, what that means is that trauma is incredibly important to address. And unresolved trauma can then just lead to people using substances. Number one. And then, once people come out of substance use, oftentimes, they're able to think more clearly, and then they start processing things, and they start thinking about things.  So, addressing trauma is incredibly important. It's just at what stage. So, when we come and see somebody in the hospital, we'll bring up trauma and we'll talk about it, but we won't go deep into it. We bring it up because then now, we try to create a plan that includes that when the time is appropriate. Sometimes, bringing up trauma and early recovery can be for some people. And again, it's all individualized based on each person. Sometimes, that can really destabilize people. So, for example, you have somebody that is going through withdrawal and they're just trying to sort of hold on and go through that process. Then, they go through the mind phase where they're compulsively thinking about using, and they're just trying to work through each craving as they come. They're moving from one to the next, trying to keep their time occupied. Now, if you add on to that, let's now dive back into this issue that every time we talk about it, it leads to a lot of stress and a lot of emotions that might add fuel to the fire. It might not be the best time to address that, but everybody has a point where it becomes, everybody has a different point at which they should manage different things. And so, it's absolutely important to address co-occurring mental health conditions like anxiety, anxiety, depression, and other issues along with addiction. And that should be managed along with addiction. And then, when it comes to trauma, just finding the right time to manage that. So, sure, if it's the pressing issue right away, it's the pressing issue within the first month, two months, then it should absolutely be addressed. But if it's not the pressing issue and rekindling that is going to make things worse, then it's something to bring about at the right time. And yeah, absolutely, it's so important to build those community ties to be able to address those things. Okay, inshallah, we can wrap up, inshallah. Okay, great. If you guys have any questions, we can ask afterwards.


Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. So today we are having day 11 of this Appian Bootcamp. And I have Ankit with me. Welcome Ankit on the channel. So Ankit will be delivering some more content related to Appian today. So I hope you are following the sessions and if you need instance, just join the telegram group and raise your request there so that you can do enough practice. And if you want to have timely notifications so you can follow Sanjay Gupta Tech School on YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram and Telegram and all the important links are available in video description. So with this note I pass it on to Ankit. So Ankit please proceed with the session for today. Thank you. Thank you very much. So if you want to check the recorded sessions or other details about Appian, so you can go to the code mesh to YouTube channel and you will find all of the recorded sessions video and other videos related to Appian. If you have any queries or any question you can put on the code mesh to telegram group or if you want to know that access of the environment of the Appian. I don't know what is happening. It actually stopped in the beginning. Okay. Yes, right now it is showing the things. So maybe what you can do, so you can cover from the beginning now. Just explain in some raised way whatever you have explained. Sure. So in our last session we discussed about the component where user input the value. Today we will cover about selections. In this one user won't type something but will select something. So these are like drop down, multiple drop down, radio buttons and set boxes. So first one is drop down. So if I use drop down. So in this one, there are some parameters like label, this is country. Label position is same like we have in others. Placeholder you can see here if I do not select anything. So you can see here this is placeholder. I can change this one. I can select give country one. Okay. Now you can see it is country one. Now these are choice label. Choice value. Labels are the value that will display in the drop down. Okay. Like India, USA, UK, China. You can see that. Okay. So these are the values. Now choice value that we save against that choice label. So suppose if I'm selecting India then one will be saved in rule input or local variable. If I'm selecting USA then it will save two. Okay. And values and save into a same like other components. So value is to display the value and save into is to save the value. Okay. So like, so it is integer type of value right. Choice values are integer. That's why I took it as integer. Okay. And suppose if I'm selecting India then it will save one. Because the corresponding value in choice value is choice value is one against India. If I'm selecting UK then it is saving three. Right. That you can see here because the corresponding value is three. Okay. So the length of the choice labels and choice values must be same and in the same sequence. So suppose if I'm putting here five then it will give the error. Because the length of choice label is four and choice values is five. Right. That's why it is giving the error. So it must be same. And if I'm, if I give the same values here as well. So now I have to change this to x type because now choice labels, choice values are x type. So I will take it as the x. And now if I select India. So you can see here in right side the value part it is saving India because now it is not one, two, three, four. But it is India against it. If I select USA then it will save USA. Right. So let choice labels are to display the value and choice values are to save the value. If I give it as simply I for USA use you for UK I use UK or China I use steam. So and then if I save run this again. Okay. So if I'm selecting India then I you can see here it is saving I okay. If I'm selecting UK then it is saving UK because it's value is UK. Okay. So like this view drop down. But suppose if there is a case where I have to select multiple values at a time because in drop down you can select only one value at a time. Okay. Not multiple. In that case we use multiple drop down. Okay. So in multiple drop down you can select multiple value at a time. So this variable is single type. Right. So to use the multiple drop down I have to convert this to area type for multiple time. Okay. Now if I select India and USA so you can see here it is saving two values I and you if I simply give like same values like this in that case. And if I now click a test I select India and then USA that it will save two values right India and USA. So this is multiple drop down. So there is only one difference in single drop down you can select only one value at a time. In multiple drop down you can select multiple values. Similar field we have that is radio field. Okay. So in radio button field also you can select multiple or single sorry single value. Okay. Or select you know to select the multiple values we use checkbox that we will learn. But in radio field you can select only one value at a time. So here I can select only one value at a time. So I will want to use it as area. Okay. And then I click on the station interface. Okay. So suppose if I'm selecting now you can see this warning is coming because radio field do not have any variable. So any parameter with the name placeholder. Okay. So I have to remove this one and it do not have the such display also. Okay. Now if I select India. Okay. It will save India here. Okay. If I'm selecting USA then it is same USA. So other things are same as drop down. Okay. There is no any other difference. Here I can use one parameter that is choice layout. Okay. That is new parameter. Okay. So in choice layout we have two options in second is that and compact is that is default. Okay. And if I use compact then I have to give this value. And now you can see these are coming in horizontal way. Okay. So this is radio field. Okay. Similarly we have checkbox. So in radio field you can select one value at a time. But in checkbox you can select multiple values. Okay. So like suppose and this is checkbox or multiple types. So I will use array. Now if I select India. So it is holding both right. India and USA you can see here. And in the value part you can see India and USA is coming. If I select UK also it is coming. India, USA and UK. Okay. So like this we use checkbox field. So checkbox field is also similar to radio field. But here you can select multiple values. Okay. In drop down you can select single. In radio field you can select single. But in multiple drop down and checkbox you can select multiple values at a time. So there are some layouts also. Like form layout, section layout, box layout, card layout and billboard layout. So like if I want to use form layout. So I have to just type form. Okay. And I can use this. This is form layout. Okay. So in form layout you can use multiple parameters like label and huge. So you can see here we have little label. It is instructions. In instruction I can give like fill the employer details. Okay. You can see here this instruction is coming under the employer details. Okay. Now contents. Okay. That is third parameter. And contents because it's multiple, right? It's array. So I will use curly braces. So wherever we have needed like you know that array type of component or array type of things. So I will use curly braces. So in contents we can use this components that we, you know, learn like selection type of or other type of contents. Okay. Like if I want to use text field, I can simply give text field. Okay. If I want to use a paragraph field, I can use that paragraph field.  So in this one I can give the label. Like first name in this one. Like label, like comments in drop down. I can give the label. Same like country in drop down placeholder. I can give like select the country. Toys, labels I can use in. I can get to India and USA. Toys, values. So you can see here in this form there are three fields. Okay. First name, component, country. So in form you can use multiple components. Okay. And number of component that you want you can use. In this form I can use the buttons as well. Okay. Here you can see we have buttons. Right. Because to submit the form we will need a button side. So we can use. And in buttons what parameters you are needed you can check from here. Okay. So we use a button layout. In button there are two type of button primary buttons and secondary button. Okay. So primary button comes in right side of the form and secondary button comes the left side of the form. So suppose primary buttons and this is also array. So I will use curly braces. Okay. That you can check from here. Now in this one I will use this button visit. So I can use multiple buttons here. Right. Because this is the array type and in button I can give these parameters like label. I can say people each submit. Okay. There is one style parameter. So what all values is styled have normal that is default. So it is coming normal. If I use primary then I give this one like suppose there is one primary button like approve button or submit button. So we use primary secondary comes like this. Okay. So it does not have any color destructive with like you know that where we are using to cancel or close something or delete something. So it is coming in red color. Okay. Link if I want to use buttons as link. So I can use this. Okay. So if I hover on this one it will be like button. So suppose if I'm using primary and there is other property that is submit. Okay. So it is a Boolean property. Okay. Either it can be true or false. So if I use submit true that means it will be used to submit the form. If I'm using a pause then it will just navigate into the form like one section to other section. Okay. So I will put it as pause. But if I want to submit the form by clicking on this button. So I have to use it. No. The property will be true. Okay. Similarly I can use add multiple buttons. Okay. Yeah. Like with submit I can use one cancel button or secondary buttons as well. Okay. So like that I can use multiple buttons. Okay. And in this one also we have same parameter like other components value save into right. So those parameters also we can use. So we can save the value of this button into some variable like in completing value. Like in value I'm putting submit because here user is not typing and not selecting right. So value will be hard for it. Okay. Button value. It will be text type because I'm using a text type. Now the value page saving to save the value type. Right. Button value. Now if I'm clicking on submit the value submit right. Suppose this first name is required. Okay. And if I'm not typing anything in this one then it will give me the message or a validation message like required. Now this one is null but it is required. Okay. So before submitting this form I have to fill this detail. Okay. Now if I click on this one it will show me the message. Right. The value is required. Okay. I cannot submit the form without filling this information. Okay. So this is form layout. Similarly we can use section layout. And in form layout you can use multiple section layout. Okay. So that is section layout. Okay. In section layout also you can add multiple components. Okay. The section layout is also seen like this parameter won't come there. Okay. In contents you can use these components. Okay. And in one form layout you can use multiple section layout like suppose this is form layout and in contents of the form layout I can use section layout. Okay. So if I want to use multiple section layout I can use multiple section layout also in one form. So like these are two section layout. Okay. So I can use the different details here like employee address. Okay. That I can see. So you can see here we have two section. One is for employee details other is for employee address. Okay. And in section layout we do not have this buttons parameter. Okay. That's why it is giving the form layout. Okay. Similar to section layout we can use other layout also. That is box layout. Okay. Box layout also we can use in form layout or section layout. Okay. So if I want to use this box layout into form layout I can use if I want to use this box layout in section layout then also I can use. So you can see here this is box layout. Okay. That is coming bottom. This one. Okay. Now if I want to give the label I can remove this first section layout so that it becomes on top. Okay. Now you can see this is box layout. If I want to give the label of this box layout I can give like finance details. Okay. So you can see here we have label. Okay. Second parameter is contents. So contents is same like other. Okay. Like I can use any type of component inside this box layout. Okay. So contents we can use. Okay. So suppose if I want to use text field I can simply give text field. Okay. So in box layout it have text field. Okay. Other than that I have one parameter that is style. Okay. So style you can see we have accent, success, info, go on, etc. So it have some colors. So now currently it is in gray color because it is in standard. Okay. If I use accent then it will change its color. So you can see here now it is in blue. If I give it other color like success so it will change it to green. Okay. So you can see here it changed the color. So it seems like we can use other styles as well. Each collapsible is the property that we use to collapse. Okay. The box. So like you can see here now in right side of this one you have this arrow. So if I click on this one it will collapse this whole box. Okay. If I click it again it will open. Okay. So this is correct. And in APN for each component we have sovereign condition. Okay. So if its value is true that is by default value it will display if I have its values false then this particular box won't display. So you can see here this box is not okay displaying. So this property we configure according to the rights or according to the condition like if the user is part of this particular group then we will show if the user is not part of this particular group we won't show this one. If these fields are already filled by user then only we will show this box layout or other component if it is not user did not fill that particular field then we want so similar type of conditions to put. But the output of those conditions must be true or false. Okay. Similarly we have other component that is card layout. Okay. Card layout is also same like box layout but in card layout we generally use to highlight some information box layout we use generally used to ask you to input the information that okay. So like if I use card layout to just fill in this one we do not have parameter level okay D and it's collapsible also not there. Okay. But other parameters are there. So you can see here we have card layout this one this is card layout. Okay. To give some space I can use a text field between these two just to give the space. So you can see here this is card layout in this card layout also you can have components there are in card layout you can give the link also. Okay. So if I want to make this whole card as a link I can give the link. Okay. I can set the height I can use the style same as style of box. Okay. But if you have more value right options here you can see chart policy scheme and all are there. Okay. So you can use that. Now you can see here its color is changed. Okay. If you want to show the border of the card or you do not want you can use this parameter. So by default it's true but if I do not want to use I can give it false. So it will hide the border of the particular card. Okay. If I want to give the tooltip I can use this one same like other if I want to give the set of so I can use this one Boolean. So it is also Boolean type but it's default value false. If I want to give it I can use true and you can see here we have some shadow. Okay. Of this card. I can change it's shape also that is quite quite right. If I want to change I can use this parameter and you can see here it has three values squared same rounded and rounded if I use rounded then it will change its border. Okay. Here you can see it is changed to right. So if I use same rounded it will change it to same rounded. Now you can see it is same rounded. Okay. So this one we can configure. Okay. So this is card layout. So card layout also we can use inside the form layout inside the section layout or box layout. So we can use this layout under other layouts. So if like everything now what we learn in single column right if I want to use the multiple column structure then there is one layout that we call as columns layout. Okay. So this is columns layout. Now you can see here in columns layout we have some parameter like if I want to use multiple columns. I will use this one columns and inside the columns columns I can give multiple column layout. Okay. So column layout comes under columns layout. So this is first column. If I want to use other column I can give other column. So in column layout also we have contents. So like suppose I have text fit. Okay. And it's label each first name. I can simply say first name. Okay. So you can see here we have first name. If I want to use one more column here and I can copy this one and I can create one more column like middle name. So now you can see it is coming in two columns right first name and then middle name. If I want to use one more column then I have to just copy this one and I can give it that is last name. So now you can see here we have three columns here. So we can create n columns structure here. Like if you want to create one more row. Okay. For this one you have to just copy this one and you can simply copy and paste and then you can change the value. So now you can see we have one more row. Okay. With the same number of columns and this columns layout you can use inside the form layout or box layout or car layout. So like if I want to use these two columns in this particular box layout or car layout I can use like if I'm giving this in this box. Okay. I have to just copy and paste and now you can see in this box we have this columns. Okay. So we can use this columns layout inside any type of other layout. Okay. And then there is one other layout that is billboard layout. Okay. So display a billboard on the top of the form or other person we can use. So in we can use billboard layout. Okay. So you can see on top of the form this billboard layout is coming. So we can configure any image or any color in this billboard layout. Okay. And that will set a background. Okay. So like if I want to have background color I can give this background color and what are the values like you can give the hex code for this particular one. Okay. That default is this one but you can change this too. Okay. If you want any other color you can give the hex code for the particular color. Okay. If you want to use image in the background. Okay. Then you can use image also here. Okay. Like if there is a document image that you can directly use there. Okay. So you can give as image or a background color. Okay. And you can say you can have one overlay also here. Okay. Like to have some values on this particular billboard. So if I want to display some values also other than background image or color I can use overlay. Okay. And in this overlay you have to use a bar overlay, a pool overlay or a column overlay. So like if I am using a bar overlay. So now you can see it is coming in bottom part. Okay. Where you can display the details. If I am using full overlay. So now you can see it cover the whole billboard. Okay. So anywhere you can show the information. If I use column overlay. So you can see here it is coming in left side. Okay. So in this part we can display the details or information and right side it will have image in background or coloring background. So like this we can use the billboard layout. Okay. So we have all type of layouts. Okay. So you have to do the practice. Okay. So I will share the link of all type of layout or type of component. So that you can do the practice by yourself as well. Okay. Or you can read the details. Now if I want to call an interface into other interface then that also I can do because in APN we want to create the like suppose there is a big interface. Okay. There is a lot of details. So we want to create only single interface. But we will create multiple interface and then we can call those multiple interfaces into a master interface. Okay. So suppose this is one of the interface. Okay. And now if I want to call this interface. Okay. That is ABCR. I can see if I am using one text field. I'll interface field I can see. I can give any and in this one I am storing the value of this one into I can say variable VAR. Okay. One. I can give any and I can use this value variable it to rule the value part and save into part. Right. Same like others. If I'm saving something it is storing into this VAR one. Right. Now if I want to use this interface inside the other interface, the bigger interface I have to just go to here. Okay. And you know I will use rule a bang or rule bang and then the interface name. Okay. What was the name? AB underscore CD. Right. So I will use this one. Okay. Now you can see we have one error here that this ABCD have one parameter but we are not passing any value. Right. That's why it is giving me the error. So I will use this variable one. Okay. That is the variable inside the interface side interface. Right. And if I want to store its value I will create this variable here as well. The same type and I will use this R I here. Okay. We are. So now you can see we have this field. Right. This is the part of child interface. Okay. That we have. We have here. If I'm select typing something here and unfocus. Now you can see here we have the value. Okay. So like this we can use that child interface into the parent interface. Okay. So this is the value.  Okay. So now in this one suppose if I want to call some expression rule. Okay. So like there we have expression rule. So suppose this is one of the expression rule. Right. AB calculates sometimes if I want to call that there I can use this expression rule also we call with the prefix rule. Okay. I can use that rule. This is the syntax for calling the interface or calling the expression rule. Okay. So it have two input parameters right. Number A and number B. I have to pass those number A and number B and number B. And if I want to open this expression rule directly from here you have to just click on control and then left click. And now you can see I can open this one. Okay. Number A and number B and I can pass this one. Like these are number integer. So I can click and I can pass. Okay. So like this we use the expression rule inside the interface. Okay. So we can use expression rule inside the interface, interface inside the interface or expression rule inside the other expression rule as well. Okay. So we can call components inside other rule. Right. So like this we can do. Okay. So this is all about like a interface related layouts and components. Okay. So I will show you the link of the details or documentation so that you can go through okay with other layouts and other components as well. And you can learn some more. Okay. About all of the parameters related to each and every component and each and the layouts. Okay. So this is all about interfaces. Okay. And if you want a community environment access, so please fill this form. Okay. That is already said with you and in description as well. And if you have any query you can post in our telegram group or you can put it in email also that is training at the code mesh.com. Okay. So thanks. I want to hand over to Sanjay sir. Thank you for sharing all the insightful knowledge and yeah. So one request I want to meet like those who are following the sessions. If you need instance, please raise the concern and you can send an email or you can reach out to telegram group. So do practice because uncle is doing great efforts sharing all the things in detail. So I think like if you want to make your career in Appian. So all these sessions will be very much fruitful for you. Okay. So we'll be having one more session tomorrow and then from next week onwards like new topic will be starting. So maybe next four weeks we'll try to cover all the remaining topics. Okay. So do practice and ask questions. Thank you uncle for sharing the knowledge.


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