Administration

In my experience a common request is to have some process started when a user logs into the system, or when they log off. For example every time a user logs in we want to hit an API hosted by another system to get the users data to be used for privilege's in our Appian instance.  A similar request is every time a user logs out to start a process. This could be to purge the old user data. I know one solution is to have a timer based model getting all users data, but for this use case that's not possible because they want the data fresh as 15 min of log in.  Another solution could be to use a start page all users must hit with a start process link, but then I still have the issue if they save a url they could just bypass the start page. 

We recently Upgraded from 19.3 to 21.1 and applied hotfix 21.1.470 On our On Prem Env. The Health Check report shows that "21.1.470.0 is not a recognized version". Please advice.

Hi I am trying to integrate with Oracle Taleo using SOAP. We have two WSDL, first one provides a URL to use. I am getting error. Thank you

Hi Folks, I am building the below logic i.e comparing the two local variables values if that is true then it has to perform the logic (i.e) 1*50 or else should return the null values. And it has to save the value when I click the button continue. As we cannot save multiple values as a same target in a!save(), Now I am facing issue in saving the values. If I define any one logic in a!save()  that is working, whereas for multiple logic it is not working. Below I have attached my code, you can refer from line 101 to 147. Please suggest If there is any alternative approach for the below logic. a!localVariables( local!type, local!quanity, local!button, { a!cardLayout( style:"SUCCESS", contents:{ a!columnsLayout( columns:{ a!columnLayout( width:"MEDIUM", contents: { a!textField( label:"MENU", readOnly:true(), ), /*a!textField(readOnly:true() ),*/ a!d

Hi, All precedents are closed but I don't see the task under active task. Why? the status is Awaiting Precedents. Please let me know the possible problems. Thank you

Does Appian supports oauth / openid authentication protocol for federation logins? For Example, Azure B2C OR Coginito SSO services. If so, can you please share any references? - Thanks.

Hi Team, Do we really need to configure the disk clean up like cleaning up logs, process and archives. Because when i execute the ./cleanupArchive.sh script I am getting "running this script is no longer necessary". So I just want to make sure if really need to follow the disk clean up steps listed in documentation Post-Install Configurations - Appian 21.1

In Interface how can we change the font style ? For Example i want change a column name from English to Arabic or Chinese? How can we do that?

I need in my application to use the java enterprise edition features like EJB which comes with Tomcat Enterprise Edition.Can I know which version of Tomcat, Appian 20.4 supports? If it does not support enterprise edition feature, can I configure my own Tomcat with Appian 20.4?

In the Appian Process Modeler, I am able to see the menu item <Save & Publish> under File in the Test Environment. I have the same security groups in Prod but I am not able to see the menu item <Save & Publish> Any thoughts I why I can't <Save & Publish> in PROD? Thanks in advance.

Anyone knows of Appian functions / components / icons like the fileuploadfield where I can trigger print to pdf function ? 

I am new at Appian and eager to learn, so please help me if you can as I have already searched and found nothing. I can't find Appian Admin Console as shown in screenshot, how can I get it?

How to avoid sending the email of a new user? In our installation we don't need to send the email with the password because we have implemented the single sign-on to connect to Appian.

Hi, about Appian authentication, is it possibile using SAML-based SSO using SAML 2.0 specifications and SHA-2 (SHA-512) signature method algorithms? Or exist a plugin on the Appian Market with this functionality? Thanks! Gabriele

I have noticed that with the Maria DB upgrade from MySQL in cloud, it will change the datatype of calculated view fields that come out to be varchar to text.  Anyone else have this issue? It causes issues as the CDT does not match due to the type change and the data store will not publish.  What steps did you take to rectify it? Thanks,

Hello, In appian we are using SAML authentication for first login but after new user creation they can't login and even after resting the password. Error : The username/password entered is invalid. usernames and passwords are case sensitive

Hi, We are aiming to have a DEV environment with HA topology to be able to develop some integrations to be then promoted to PROD via CI/CD. These developments won't be as frequent as the developments in Appian so, the need of the HA is residual. Is it possible to scale down the Appian environment easily? Having a single node up most of the time and only have the 3 from time to time? Is it just a matter of shutting down 2 nodes and change the topology.xml file?  

Need help/possible options,  Client wants to migrate PRODUCTION Appian primary APPIAN_SCHEMA  and  BUSINESS_SCHEMA from Sybase to Microsoft SQL. Is there any possible solutions to migrate or refresh the inflight Appian PRODUCTION instance intact after Db migration.

Is it in the roadmap to perhaps allow the Insights site for On Prem?  Either allow on prem to stream logs to appian (unlikely since there are likely security reasons to not be in appian cloud in the first place), or allow the Insights site to be an imported app and have it pull logs from the server or stream to the app the logs that are needed. Or even have Insights as a default site/app on all installs and it pulls the data needed [emoticon:c4563cd7d5574777a71c318021cbbcc8]

We created a QR code to our workplace safety app hoping visitors and vendors could access the app that way but it doesn't take them to our configured app.  It takes them to a sign on screen that requires user name and password.   Anyone have any experience using QR codes to get right to their company's app?

Hi there, We have a self-managed environment, and we have Oracle as our primary database. Currently, we are trying to configure MySql as a secondary database and we follow the steps on this link: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/20.4/Configuring_Relational_Databases.html#provide-data-source-connection-information. Performed steps: 1. install mysql-connector-java-8.0.23-1.el7.noarch.rpm in the <REPO_HOME>/tomcat/apache-tomcat/lib/. for this we moved the rpm file and runed the rpm -ivh command  to install. 2. we updated the <REPO_HOME>/conf/tomcatResources.xml.<ENVIRONMENT> file just adding the configuration for MySql  <Resource name="jdbc/AppianPrimary" factory="com.appiancorp.tomcat.datasource.EncodedPasswordDataSourceFactory" type="javax.sql.DataSource" driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver" url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@oracle_server.example.com:1521:ORACLE_FOR_APPIAN" usern

Hi, We are using SAML to asign users to groups upon login, using 2 different types of rules:  - Group based - matching SAML groups to Appian Groups (for example - Director)  - Rule based - matching user data (taken from SAML properties) to Appian Groups (for example - Office) We need to be able to create sub-groups using info from Groups + User data (to create a group for - Office Director). We need these groups to be able to assign tasks. We've tried multiple things but haven't ben able to find a solution to execute this online, and therefore have gone to a batch solution. Is there a way to:  - create a group from an interesection of 2 groups?  - create a group using group + user attribute data? Thanks

Hi All, Can some one confirm whether I can run/setup/install an Appian on my personal system  othan accessing 14 days trial. I know the location to download the Appian installer 20.0.0.4. Thanks in advance, Abdul.

Hello there, I have a question about the "Administrator" user. As far as I know it is a super user that is not logged in the Appian logs and for this reason the user does not have access to the admin console. But, can the user access everything else? It is not listed in the Users section. How can I know what is the password of this user?  Also another question, comes the Adminsitrator user with every Appian installation out of the box? Many thanks!

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