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Hi, We currently manage a fully functional Appian HA distributed environment that contains: 3 application servers 1 web server 1 database server I had some questions regarding a migration that is being planned from a corporate level that involves IP addresses being changed for our servers hosting Appian. (Effective May 11th, 2023) If IP addresses were to change for our servers hosting Appian: 1. What issues would this cause to our Appian HA environment? 2. Which actions need to be taken in order for Appian to be fully operational when the ip changes occur? Let me know if any additional information is needed. Regards, Chetana

Is it possible to use a third party vulnerability scanning software to scan Appian code for vulnerabilities? I saw a similar question asked 7 years ago and the answer was no and just wanted to verify that nothing has changed in that time. 

Hi, We are trying to configure SAML SSO with Azure AD for a customer with Appian cloud. We need the Service Provider Signing Certificate and Service Provider Signing Certificate Password but we are not sure if this information is provided to us by the IDP, if we need to ask Appian for it through a support case or create a self-signed certificate as described here community.appian.com/.../kb-1108-how-to-create-a-self-signed-certificate-for-saml-authentication. I have reviewed the documentation for SAML configuration docs.appian.com/.../SAML_for_Single_Sign-On.html but I cannot find further information about these two fields. Thanks in advance

Hello Community,I'm facing "An error has occurred during the execution of the smart service activity." error while executing Robotic task smart service. I have uploaded some Macro files to perform RPA, but its unable to execute, showing the mentioned error before execution itself . I'm unable to figure it out. Can anyone help me on this.

Hi, we are trying to configure SAML authentication in our client's cloud enviroment. To get the .pem metadata file from the IPD they request the following urls: Identifier (Entity ID): mysite.appiancloud.com Reply URL (Assertion Consumer Service URL): mysite.appiancloud.com/.../AssertionConsumer Does anyone knows if we can just send them this urls with our domain or if we need to configure something in the admin console before? Thanks in advance.

Good morning, we are using the Log a Message (Appian Community) plugin in an Appian environment. The problem we have is that this plugin has been archived by Appian, and when we try to move it to another unrelated environment, we cannot install it. Does anyone know how to solve this? Do you know of another plugin that allows writing to the Appian log? Thank you very much

Hello team, We have configured a white list in customer environments and some users are receiving error 403 - forbbiden while trying to access appian. In my opinion, I believe that these users are not in the IP range configured in the white list. Knowing this, I would like to identify in the logs the IPs of these users who are having access denied when they try to enter the environment link to compare with the white list that we configured, and if this IP is not there, report this information to the client. Is there any way I can view this? Where? Thanks

Hi All, Anyone familiar with this type of issue when trying to import a package?

Im creating quite a bit of users in the Appian Environment one by one in the Admin Console. What is the best way to "Import" a batch of several users in Appian one time, rather than building each individual one by one? I see an Import and Export button on top of the Admin Console. but I am not sure if that can be used or what the alternative solution would be for this.  Thanks in Advance

Is it possible to fix some columns in a read only grid?

Hello Everyone, We need to track the history of changes made to the user custom field, as we are receiving roles from GEMI in this custom field. Is there any out-of-the-box functionality to capture these changes, or are there any available workarounds? Your assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Udhaya

Hi Team, I am currently using SAML authentication for Appian, and it’s working fine. Is it possible to completely disable direct login with a username and password for Appian?

Hello :  My local machine is a windows 11 Home Named ( hostname ) zenbooktxuss .  The temporary license was working ( until it has expired ) . I requested  a permanent license twice .  I selected Local environment , introduced zenbooktxuss.casaredns.ddns.net as FQDN  ( the machine has that domain suffix configured but is not in a windows domain or workgroup)  and the Q output of my machine was something similar to this --> KDB+ 4.0 2023.05.26 Copyright (C) 1993-2023 Kx Systems w64/ 12()core 32574MB jesus zenbooktxuss 192.168.0.49 ... Just with the hostname But the license is registered like --> KDB+ 4.0 2023.05.26 Copyright (C) 1993-2023 Kx Systems w64/ 12()core 32574MB jesus zenbooktxuss.casaredns.ddns.net ..... The hostname was replaced ty the FQDN .  Once i have installed the permanent license . When i test the license 4 with the q script  i get this message . '2024.09.17T08:24:28.985 license error: host ze

Hi all, I need to move an Appian 20.4 installation on a Windows server 2012R2 to a Windows server 2022 standard, and I want also to upgrade to Appian 24.1. Has anyone some clues to perform the activity?

Hi,  This is Ajay and I am learning appian 24.3 since a week. I am stuck with below error. Same code is working fine in 1 Process but getting below error with other Process Model. Can someone pls help me to get this resolved. /* Code */   /* Error */ Error Evaluating UI Expression Expression evaluation error [evaluation ID = D7MQR] in rule 'pm_rentalview' : A dropdown component [label="Status"] has an invalid value for "value". All selected values must be present in the choiceValues array, but value was Not Paid and choiceValues was Paid; Not Paid; On Advance.

Hi [mention:adb98a54369049d19dbc03825a3132e4:23b05a61c3e5445190d9bfa00453bce4]  / [mention:b1ec831bc63f413fb8baec7179cee8b3:23b05a61c3e5445190d9bfa00453bce4] / [mention:5357deb643314f689f0553cc98556414:23b05a61c3e5445190d9bfa00453bce4]  I am trying to upgrade from 23.4 to 24.3 and I am facing below issue. I have followed the instructions provided in from the below links, with search server added new properties in both the location but still I am getting this error. 1. https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/24.3/Upgrade_Guide.html2. community.appian.com/.../kb-2322-application-server-fails-to-start-due-to-improperly-configured-search-server-credentials 09:53:52.442 [main] ERROR com.appiancorp.common.persistence.search.AppianSearchSpringConfig - error initializing client com.appiancorp.suiteapi.common.exceptions.AppianRuntimeException: The search server cannot be reached. Failed to connect to server at [localhost:9200]. Check that the search server is started. If ru

Hi [mention:b1ec831bc63f413fb8baec7179cee8b3:23b05a61c3e5445190d9bfa00453bce4] / [mention:5357deb643314f689f0553cc98556414:23b05a61c3e5445190d9bfa00453bce4]  I am trying to upgrade from Appian 23.4 to 24.3 and I have followed the instructions from below link, but I am facing some unauthorized error with respect to search server configuration. 1. https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/24.3/Upgrade_Guide.html2. community.appian.com/.../kb-2322-application-server-fails-to-start-due-to-improperly-configured-search-server-credentials 2024-09-09 09:53:50,863 [main] INFO com.appiancorp.common.persistence.search.SearchServerClientConfiguration - Using the Search Server client configuration specified in /opt/appian/conf/appian-topology.xml. 09:53:52.442 [main] ERROR com.appiancorp.common.persistence.search.AppianSearchSpringConfig - error initializing client com.appiancorp.suiteapi.common.exceptions.AppianRuntimeException: The search server cannot be reached. Failed

Hi Team, I recently configured SAML in Appian, and when some existing users attempted to access Appian via SSO, they encountered a 401 error. I had already added these users to the authentication group, and ensured that the Identity Provider (IdP) username was in lowercase, with both the username and email matching. However, the 401 error still occurred. As a temporary workaround, I changed the username, and when the old user tried to access Appian through SSO, Appian treated the user as new. As a result, the user was recreated because we have the "Create new users upon sign-in" option enabled in the SAML settings. Since we cannot change the username for all users, I am looking for a solution to resolve this issue without modifying usernames. Any help with addressing this problem would be appreciated.  

Hi, I wanted to know that how we can expose/embedd our Appian functionality/action to other application which is not of Appian ex: A Java built-in app, so the user using the application can perform an action which is build of Appian.

After upgrade, while create or modifiy Process model and reports are giving error 404. Anyone faced similar issue?

 I would like to use a SAML Group claim, like <Appian Admin> so that when a user signs in, and they are in that IdP Group (from Azure Entra ID) that they are created as an admin console admin... Is there a way to use a "Common Object group" in Designer to manage admin console admins?

I am looking to use SAML 'Attribute Mapping' configuration to 'create new users upon sign in'. Is there a way I could create a user as a system administrator based on SAML attribute mapping?

our current appian primary database is on oracle which we are migrating to PostgreSQL we are using GCP DMS for migration from oracle to PostgreSQL after migration we found few column which is as  BLOB in oracle is migrated as bytea in postgresql no when we are starting tomcat we are getting error  org.hibernate.tool.schema.spi.SchemaManagementException: Schema-validation: wrong column type encountered in column [edit_events] in table [app_edit_history]; found [bytea (Types#BINARY)], but expecting [oid (Types#BLOB)] is any one faced this issue please help with resolution

1) I am using appian community account. I need to change my first name but 'Update' button is not enabled in edit profile 2) Is there any way to download certificate from appian community account

Hi Folks, There is a requirement to reset the password dynamically for a user, but I don't see any specific smart service for this purpose. Regards, Ghanashyam