Automated Versioning Manager (AVM)

Overview

The Automated Versioning Manager is a tool that helps manage Appian applications and database DDL files in a version control system. Given an Appian application ZIP file, the Automated Versioning Manager performs the following actions:

• Unzips the application and organizes the artifact XML files in the repository.
• Automates the check-in and check-out operations with the version control system.
• Generates application packages for import in Appian based on the contents of the repository and a range of changes to include.

This tool is frequently used with the native, external deployment APIs (https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/22.1/Deployment_Rest_API.html) or the Automated Import Manager (AIM) (https://community.appian.com/w/the-appian-playbook/198/deployment-automation). Unless you are doing deployments for the Admin Console, we suggest using the native APIs.

Key Features & Functionality

• Version Control integration (Git, SVN)
• Supports Appian applications and packages
• Generate import package from hash ranges
• Folder Listener to add contents to Version Control
• Supports GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket for Version Control

You can access the source code for AVM by exploding the ZIP file after download.

Note: This utility does not support Java version 9.0.