Process Management Services

Overview

Contains smart services to allow processes to manage other processes, manage node activity, upgrade process version and update locales.

Example use cases:

Orchestrate process removal and archival within your application (e.g. synchronize the deletion/archival of subprocesses and related processes)
Bulk delete testing processes that are no longer needed
Cancel a process (or many) from another process without using messaging or MNI
Set the status of a process to Cancelled for reporting purposes
Orchestrate node activity
Override or make additions to the security role-map of a list of process instances.

Key Features & Functionality

Smart Services included:

Find Archive Processes
Delete Processes
Cancel Processes
Pause Processes
Resume Processes
Archive Processes
Unarchive Processes
Find Archived Processes
Start All Nodes
Restart All Nodes
Cancel All Nodes
Update Security For Processes
Upgrade Processes
Upgrade Processes From Version
Change Model Locale

All the Smart Services must run in a context with Administrator rights and return a result code indicating whether or not the operation was successful.

simonj3483 over 4 years ago

Hi, recently installed IDP and all the process models have their language set to en US. As a UK site, this means all model names are appearing as ???. KB1193 recommends using this plug in to reset the model names, but there does not seem to be a smart service for this
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Frans Stuifbergen over 4 years ago

Hi, we are using this plug-in to restart specific nodes, by using smart-service "Restart all nodes v2" when they are failed to be able to resume a large amount of instances in one go.
When we are passing a pv! variable in the node input parameter "Within Process IDs" which is empty (null) this smart-service will start triggering instances in what looks like a random order, inlcuding instances which are already completed instead of paused. Is this expected behaviour or a bug for not handling the scenario of null input?
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Alvaro Corral over 4 years ago in reply to rohann252

I think there is no documentation available specifically for this plugin. What do you need?
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Alvaro Corral over 4 years ago in reply to nagashankarn0001

Hi,

I have tested this plugin in 20.2 and it seems to be working properly. Specifically, I have tested the smart services:

- Archive Processes
- Unarchive Processes
- Find Archived Processes

Have you found any issue using this plugin in the latest versions?

Thanks.
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rohann252 over 4 years ago

Documentation inregards to usage of this Plug in is Missing can any one help with this ?Support
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nagashankarn0001 over 4 years ago

Hi Alvaro,

We are upgrading our platforms to New Appian version 20.1. Can we expect an updated version of this plugin to support on Latest Version of Appian as It shows Compatible Version(s): 7.10+, 18.4

Thanks
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Druva Kota over 4 years ago in reply to nafisk0002

Hi Nafis,

This Smart Service is using the unarchiveProcesses method of the ProcessExecutionService interface, which is documented in the Appian Java API docs.

These numbers are values from the ResultList class that correspond to ResultList.CODE_VALID (1) if the action succeeded, or ResultList.CODE_INVALID (-1) if the specified process does not exist. The values for this constant list can be seen here.
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krishnau3863 over 4 years ago in reply to justins797

Hi justins797, we are also facing the same issue, in health check it is showing the plugin as high risk of using due to some deprecated API , But still functioning, But how do you conclude it as false positives as high risk.
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nafisk0002 over 4 years ago

Hi Team,

Do we have any documentation to refer to ?

I am trying to use Unarchive Processes smart service and getting result as 1. What does 1 stands for ? Also, I cant see the process getting un-archived.

For some cases, I am getting result as -1. What is -1 ?

Thanks & Regards,

Nafis Khan
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justins797 over 4 years ago in reply to justins797

Update: The Appian Health Check report was reporting back false positives as high risk. Please ignore my original message.
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