Administration

Hi everyone, I'm working with Appian 25.2 on Windows, and I want to change the default HTTP port from 8080 to 80. Here’s what I’ve done so far: I did not modify anything in <APPIAN_HOME>, as per Appian's official recommendations. I located the file tomcatResources.xml inside <REPO_HOME>\conf. I added this connector definition: <Connector port="80" protocol="HTTP/1.1" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="443" /> I ran configure.bat from the root of the configuration repository. It completed successfully with no errors. I did not start the Appian environment, I only checked the generated file at: <APPIAN_HOME>\tomcat\apache-tomcat\conf\server.xml And I noticed that the port is still set to 8080 instead of 80.  What else should I check or configure to get the port changed properly to 80?

In the below piece of code, I'm attempting to update "id" value to 567. The output expected is the same as what is in local!groupEndpointResponse with the updated value of id. a!localVariables( local!groupsEndpointResponse:{ {totalResults: 1, startIndex: 1, itemsPerPage: 100, schemas: {"schema1"}, Resources: { {meta: {created: fn!datetime(2024, 12, 8, 3, 12, 45, 350), lastModified: fn!datetime(2024, 12, 8, 3, 12, 46, 910), resourceType: "Group"}, displayName: "Abc", members: {{display: "Joe", value: "123"}}, externalId: "null", id: 2}}}, {totalResults: 1, startIndex: 1, itemsPerPage: 100, schemas: {"schema2"}, Resources: { {meta: {created: fn!datetime(2024, 12, 8, 3, 12, 45, 690), lastModified: fn!datetime(2024, 12, 8, 3, 12, 46, 770), resourceType: "Group"}, displayName: "lmn", members: {{display: "Sam", value: "789"}}, externalId: "null", id: 2}}}}, a!f

Hello everyone, I believe I created a real issue by deleting documents I should have left alone. My goal was to make environment B identical to environment A.  There were existing files in environment B so my approach was to delete everything I could and then import everything from environment A.  To clear away everything in environment B I hard deleted all application files by going into the application in designer, check the box next to the file name, delete, and confirm delete.  Once all files were deleted I would then delete the application itself.  Once all applications and their corresponding files were deleted I then went after files that lived outside of the applications.  I'm fairly certain this is where I created my problem.  I deleted documents that I now believe were being used for the appian user profile pictures.  The documents I deleted had the format of <username>_180, <username>_90, <usernam

I want to display the data on the search screen when I return from the summary view using the back button.

Hi all, I'm using the out-of-the-box (OOB) "Download as Excel" functionality on a paging grid in Appian. One of the column values in my grid is a dash (-), which is displayed correctly in the interface. However, when I export the grid using the download button, the dash is exported to Excel as '- (with a leading single quote). It seems Excel is treating it as a text value, but I would like it to appear exactly as -, without the quote. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a way to prevent the single quote from being added during export? Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

After upgrading to Appian 25.1, the logs indicate that all services are up and running. However, HTTPS calls to port 8080 are not working.  Am seeing the following warnings in the logs:  “Ignoring JAVA_HOME; using ES_JAVA_HOME instead” “Unable to load the config file: /home/.aws/config — Access Denied Exception” Any help in investigate why port 8080 is not up and running would be much appreciated? All 15 requested services are running [analytics00, analytics01, analytics02, channels, content, download-stats, execution00, execution01, execution02, forums, groups, notifications, notifications-email, portal, process-design] 0 [main] INFO com.appian.data.server.Watchdog - Data Server is starting using the [ALL_COMPONENTS_MODE] startup mode.18 [main] INFO com.appian.data.TopologyFactory - Loading topology /usr/local/appian/data-server/conf/appian-topology.xml *************************************************************************************

After upgrading to Appian 25.1, the logs indicate that all services are up and running I dont see any error. However, HTTP calls to port 8080 are not working.  We’re seeing the following warnings in the logs:  “Ignoring JAVA_HOME; using ES_JAVA_HOME instead” “Unable to load the config file: /home/.aws/.config — Access Denied Exception” All 15 requested services are running [analytics00, analytics01, analytics02, channels, content, download-stats, execution00, execution01, execution02, forums, groups, notifications, notifications-email, portal, process-design] 0 [main] INFO com.appian.data.server.Watchdog - Data Server is starting using the [ALL_COMPONENTS_MODE] startup mode.18 [main] INFO com.appian.data.TopologyFactory - Loading topology /usr/local/appian/data-server/conf/appian-topology.xml ************************************************************************************** Regenerating the server certificate.warning: ignoring JAVA_H

Hi, We need to get the users access and refresh tokens using the SAML assertion. We tried to do this creating a connected system with the authentication method OAuth 2.0: SAML Bearer Assertion Flow. The problem we have with this solution is that the assertion along with the client id, client secret and scope are added as a header when calling the integration. We are required to send the assertion separately in the request body, so we are trying to find a way to get the assertion after the users login with SAML to add it to the body of the integration to retrieve the tokens. Has anyone done something like this before or knows how we can access the SAML assertions stored in Appian? Thanks in advance. 

below question: Can we capture the user activity in Administration console or designer page even if the user is not changing anything there , user start pages ,etc. and they are not making any changes , Is this activity also captured in the logs and if it is which log should I find it?

Hello, We are operating on-premise and retrieving user login data from /opt/appian/shared-logs/appian-engine-1.xxx/login-audit.csv across three servers. It has been noticed that the files in /opt/appian/shared-logs and /opt/appian/logs are not synchronized. Is this expected behavior? Additionally, could you confirm the timing for when the login rotation file is generated and copied from /opt/appian/logs to /opt/appian/shared-logs? We observed that the rotation file in /opt/appian/shared-logs is created at random times rather than at 12:00 AM GMT. Thank You, Sneha.

Is it possible to enable SAML Authentication (SSO) specific to one application alone in a shared environment and remaining users are expected to login via native login for accessing other applications in the same environment?

When I navigate to the System Logs tab, I saw there are different type logs in there. Is there any best practice of developer to check these logs?

I need to create thousands of test users in my system to support locust test. Are there any tools that allow me to do that?

Is it possible to have a session countdown timer in the UI, when the user goes into idle state.  When the session timeout pop up message appears, is it possible to have a count down timer to show the remaining minutes before logout

Facing below issue while trying to enable SSO. I have filled out the SAML form with all the required information. When I am testing the configuration, I am receiving error message as below.  FYI, IdP is Azure Ad. I see below message from Logs Interesting part is, Azure logs says that my login is successful even though I have above error message displayed in Appian. Did anyone face similar issue or know about this issue? 

Hi! We had to migrate from Appian on cloud to on premise. Now I can't find the system logs, where are those on the on premise version? 

Previously I was working on a project to customize Case Management Studio for Use Case 1. 3 months later, that project is on hold and I now want to use CMS for a completely different use case. I realize that I can create a new case category to handle the new use case and mark the previous one as inactive. However, I have made some changes to the Base module as well and want to make sure that doesn't create any problems in the future. I have also configured data fields in the "All Cases" data section that I can view in my new case category (Which is not ideal, since it does not apply to the new use case) What would be my best options to make sure I have a clean slate for the new use case - 1. Is it recommended to clone an instance/app of CMS using npm apn-app-manager?  2. Should I continue working in the same instance with a new case category Appreciate your advice on this!

Hi I have written this query to fetch result based on two filter criteria. When I am passing either of employeeId or Created by it throws the following error. But if I pass both employeeId and CreatedBy it works properly. Can anyone help as in what is wrong in this? The error: The code: rule!NGS_queryEntityRefresh( dataStoreEntity: cons!NGS_DSE_QPP_PERFORMANCE_TRACKER, returnType: ri!returnType, executeWhen: ri!executeWhen, queryLogicalExpression: a!queryLogicalExpression( operator: "OR", logicalExpressions: { a!queryLogicalExpression( operator: "AND", filters: { a!queryFilter( field: "employeeId", operator: "in", value: ri!employeeIds, applyWhen: not(rule!NGS_isBlank(ri!employeeIds)) ), a!queryFilter( field: "discussionTopicRefId", operator: "in", value: ri!discussionTopicRefIds, applyWhen: not(rule!NGS_isBlank(ri!employeeIds)) ), a!queryFilter( field: "discussionSubtopicRefId", operator: "in", value

Idle Session Timeout (Minutes): The number of minutes that a user can remain inactive before the system signs them out. Users will be warned five minutes before their session expires. After two more minutes, if the user remains inactive, they will be signed out. The minimum valid value is 10 minutes and the maximum valid value is 480 minutes (8 hours). Users get the warning before 5 minutes of system expiry and after 2 minutes, the user gets signed out. Can we configure this 5 and 2 minutes. And is it possible to configure the timeout message.

hi , In 24.2 version we have received a feature as New site email alerts will be sent to site object administrators, Is we need to enable manually or it will send automatically to the administrators if it wil fails anything on the site page. If it sending automatically then I'm getting any mail from site error alerts. Note : Currently we are using 25.1 version and I have administrators access for all objects in our application  could you someone help me how to enable for that. Thanks

Hi, we are facing issue with swedish word for site tab, if we add one swedish name word tab its working as expected but if we add more than one swedish word to site tab its not working. pic 1- when we add one swedish word  pic 2-- when we add 2 swedish words please let me know if any one have faced this issue. thanks

We are using Self Managed instance of Appian in Kubernetes. We have configured session timeout for 20 minutes in Admin console and using native login. This is working for System administrators but not working for Basic users. Do we need to update anywhere else for the same or do we need to configure this in server level.

hi , is Case Management Studio can be installed to on-premise appian servers ? Thanks in advance

Hello, Previously, in v24.4, I was able to configure a data source for SQL Server. Now, in v25.1, I can't. Any suggestions? Here the error: Thanks in advanced! Allan

I have made changes to the custom.properties file, specifically:appian.feature.selfManagedMonitoring=true. I validated and deployed the changes, and also restarted the server after deployment. However, upon checking the configure.log file, the configuration changes are not being reflected.