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.

Anonymous
  • We are using this plug-in, and in Appian health check report it's flagged as high risk because it's referencing the removed/deprecated Appian APIs. So, will there be an update that will address these issues?

  • Trying to install this plug in.  It doesn't open or install.  Can anyone give me some guidance on why it won't install?

  • Hi   are you able to shed any light on this issue. Looks like an issue with converting the Process ID to an Integer due to ".l" extension.

  • I have received an error using the Find Archived Processes Smart Service, my process model is using this based on a date loop to determine the archived processes from a particular start date. This seems to be working for most iterations however on certain dates it returns the following error.

    Is this a known issue? I'm using Appian 19.3 and Process Management Services v2.2.3 

    2019-09-20 11:18:49,508 [Appian Work Item - 238 - execution00 : UnattendedJavaActivityRequest] ERROR com.appiancorp.process.engine.UnattendedJavaActivityRequest - An error occurred while executing activity: id=52384, classname=com.appiancorp.ps.processmanager.pinstance.archive.FindArchivedProcesses
    java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "268468406.l"
    at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:65)
    at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:580)
    at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:615)
    at com.appiancorp.ps.processmanager.pinstance.archive.FindArchivedProcesses.run(FindArchivedProcesses.java:82)

  • Hi Anu.  The last update that was provided on this plug-in was pre 19.2 however most plug-ins work with newer versions of Appian.  I recommend you post a question with the details of the issue you are facing in the Discussions area.  

  • Hi, I wanted to know if this service is compatible with 19.2 . I am trying to use delete process but it doesn't seems to be working . Please help!!

  • Hi Alvaro,

    Just wanted to confirm the latest plugin version (2.2.3) is working on our cloud installation on 19.1, thanks for the update

    Cheers,
    Chris

  • Hi Alvaro,

    I have deployed the latest version (2.2.3) of this plugin to Appian cloud 18.4.  The deployment was successful.  However, it always returns -1 value after I pass the process ID in "Unarchive Processes" or "Unarchive Processes v2".  Would you please confirm if it is working to your end?

    Thanks/Henry

  • Hello.

    It should not be issues deploying on cloud.

    I have tested (18.4) and I have been able to deploy correctly.

    Please, could you tell me more context about the issue? For example:

    Do you have previous versions of the plugin installed or not?

    Have you done the deployment using the administration console?

    Thanks.

  • Is the latest version supported via cloud plugin deployment? Attempted to deploy on 18.4.

    However, it fails prompting message:

    'Plug-in failed to deploy'