Administration

Hey Everyone,Not a technical issue just a question about the folder sizes in Appian. When I'm looking at folder I can see it has a size of 48.2 GB. But when I open it to see what is inside of it there are only a few items, where the size doesn't reach anywhere close to the stated 48.2 GB.

Hi Team, We are using SQLBackupAndFTP tool for taking backup of database in MariaDB (Appian). We have installed the tool while setting up, getting an error stating that Database is not detected. Please find the attached snippet for reference. Please help us here to fix the issue. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Raj

Hi, Is there a way to limit the number of concurrent sessions for users authenticating against SAML IdP, specifically Azure? We've tried configuring the limit as described in https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/20.4/Appian_Administration_Console.html#account-locking but it seems it's only applicable for Appian-based authentication. Thanks

Should the conf.data.search-server.restclient.apiKey be the same on all nodes/servers in a distributed installation?

Privacy error while clicking on the Appian login link: Receiving the below screenshot error while hitting the Appian login basic link. After clicking on the login url we are receiving "Your connection is not private" error (full error message is as per the below screenshot).  We are always made to click on the "Advanced" option and then only the login page showing username and password appears. Please suggest how to avoid this privacy error everytime and how to go directly to the login page.

I got this from the Health Check Report: DSGN-0009 Appian Design # of objects with no admin group Medium 83 83 objects do not have an admin group defined. All objects should have an admin group explicitly defined or inherited from a parent container. Is there any fast way to identify which objects do not have an admin group defined? I hope I don't have to go one by one because I have thousands of objects.Thank you so much!

Hi Everyone,  From Postman, I am calling the Appian Web API. If it success i am getting status code twice(200 200) in the response. same for error scenario. I need to change anything? pls suggest solution for this. Thanks..

Hi Team , As per installation documentation , Appian suggested to use oracle OpenJDK for JAVA_HOME. But the linux machine we have has already IBM java .  Will it be possible to install appian with IBM java. or  Do we need install open jdk which comes with appian installer for JAVA_HOME. is there any advantage of using openjdk

Can someone list out the pros & cons of Compare & Deploy functionality Appian provides. And What could be the reason one should go with separate outside Automate process of Deployment for e.g Export Package and Update into Repo and move along in upper environment via DevOPS tools and if there is any Database change then also use Repo to upload and then Move along with Jenkin Build and other tools.

Is there a way to create application and add provided artifacts into it on Appian using Process model or some other mechanism. Problem statement : Create Backup application from higher environemtn with provided artifacts added into the created applicaiton. export it before code promotion 

Hi, everyone. I'm learning from "Online Course - Advanced Expressions: Part 2".I have a question about "Exercise: Looping Functions (Online Course | Learning at Appian)". Exercise: Looping Functions(Online Course | Learning at Appian) The answer of "Scenario 4" is 1333 (1332 + initial value 1), but adding all the values of "local!sensor" gives 1361.The last value of 29 in the third map seems to be ignored. a!localVariables( local!sensor: { a!map(data: {125,92,22,63,73,28,19}), a!map(data: {35,65,92,22,63,73,28}), a!map(data: {2,35,65,22,63,73,18,29}), a!map(data: {9,35,65,63,35,28,19}) }, .... .... reduce(fn!sum, 1, local!sensor.data) ) Is the answer 1333 correct?Is this behavior by design? Regards!

How important is using a deployment account?

Hello everyone, I need to setup the possibility for user to access through MFA, like username + password and code received on the phone or on an app like google auth. Is there anyway to do that on Appian?I know about SAML but, for me, it isn't clear if it works only with identity provider or with other methods. I work with Appian Cloud Version. Thanks for your attention. I'm looking forward to your reply. Daniele

Following Starter Tutorial up to Activity 9 trying to create a new Launch Tracker Site New Site created with default permission settings untouched (viewer and admin) After creation, the editor opened with 403 permission error Back to app and tried to update the security of the site, seeing 2 warnings say no viewer and admin and they are indeed disappeared... Try manually add these two permission back to the site and save, UI say site updated successfully but still 403 error when trying to edit Open security again and notice the added permissions are gone even it said it was successful

has this worked for anyone? I am attempting to install appian on kubernetes locally in my docker-desktop following this link https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/22.4/k8s-0.120.0/install-appian-on-k8s.html  I requested and applied temporary licenses. then when the data-server container started, I logged into it and ran the QHOME=.. ./q    in the path  <APPIAN_HOME>/data-server/engine/bin/q/l64/  which is this path on  /usr/local/appian/ae/data-server/engine/bin/q/l64      I got this output ''2023.02.15T19:15:28.629 appian.app   which I tried to use to request for permanent license key. However, I am getting the below snippet error.  According to this doc https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/20.4/Requesting_and_Installing_a_license.html#generating-the-q-output  ,  the k4.lic file needs to be removed from the directory before running the q executable. I tried to rename, mv and even re

I am trying to install Appian in docker. I have used the temporary licenses(k3.lic and k4.lic) to run Appian in docker containers.  But for requesting a permanent license I followed the documentation. I followed these steps: To generate the q output, navigate to the following location: Linux: <APPIAN_HOME>/data-server/engine/bin/q/l64/ Windows: <APPIAN_HOME>\data-server\engine\bin\q\w64\ Use the following commands to run the executable: Linux: QHOME=.. ./q   and got the output as '2021.02.25T07:08:27.915 appian.app when i pasted it for requesting license i got this ERROR. attaching the image of the error. Please say the process for getting permanent license for my docker conatiners.

Hi All, We have configured Health check to run and generate a report under DevOps section in Admin Console. However we need to go to admin console an download the report every time. Is there a way we can receive the reports generated into out emails? If so, how can we configure the recipients? Thanks in advance. 

Hello, I have forgot my username for deveoper portal and unable to login. Could you please help in resetting my username and password? My email is: swathik0312@gmail.com

Hi All, When trying to import the Appian IDP package into our environment we are having issues, where numerous process models are said to not be valid. The environment is on 22.2 and we are installing v1.8 of IDP. The errors in the import log are below: Any suggestions as to what could be wrong would be great. Thanks!

I have an idea for a SaaS application business. I would like to develop the application to be B2B for organizations in the financial sector. Can I use Appian as the platform to sell B2B in a SaaS subscription model?

I followed this documentation for adding new calendar https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/22.4/Process_Calendar_Settings.html but i'm getting error com.appian.komodo.api.exceptions.SignalException: Invalid TimeZone

Hi, first of all: Best greetings to everybody here. I like to add an additional 2 factor authentication to use the community not only on my smartphone but wirh my PC also. Where can I add eg email or sms or do I need to start from scratch? Thanks in advance Matthias

Hi, We have a LDAP and AD Group process to sync AD group and its users into Appian. If a new user being added to the AD group, then same user is appearing under respective group of Appian using LDAP Sync. When the users have been removed from AD Group, after sync ran, user is also getting removed from Appian. If we remove the user in AD Group, I would like to understand if there is way to keep the user in Appian with "Inactive" status instead of deleting. Thanks in advance.

I have a primary data source schema, mapped to a Linux dev(ex: dev01) environment. From another Linux server(ex: dev02). I installed new Appian and provided same primary & secondary data source in tomcatResources.xml and custom.properties. dev02 works fine when started.  This seems to be multi-gateway installation but we are not trying to setup distributed environment. The purpose to do this is to have a separate Appian installation instance where we can do some POCs for upgrade. Q1. How Appian differentiates same primary data source for these two servers?   Q2. Will there be any impact on dev01 if we shutdown dev02 and don't use it anymore? Thanks in advance.

Hello, While attempting to access the site in the browser it continuously spin. Even tried rebooting server and restarting service even though APPIAN was down. Below is the dump of my tomcat-stdOut.log --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using CATALINA_BASE: "D:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat"Using CATALINA_HOME: "D:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat"Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "D:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat\temp"Using JRE_HOME: "D:\appian\java"Using CLASSPATH: "D:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat\bin\bootstrap.jar;D:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat\bin\tomcat-juli.jar"2021-10-26 16:45:24.778 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server version name: Apache Tomcat/8.5.502021-10-26 16:45:24.779 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListen