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Hello, I am trying to implement a custompickerField, but I still don't understand very well how the suggestFunction and selectedLabels work since I have my DP_addressSugestion rule that receives the address and through the Google Maps API it already returns the filtering. Here is my suggestFunction. a!localVariables( local!addressSugestion: rule!DP_AddressGoogleMaps( address: ri!address, latitud: -9.5, longitud: -75 ), if( local!addressSugestion.success, a!localVariables( local!labels: a!forEach( items: local!addressSugestion.result.places, expression: index(fv!item, "description", null) ), local!values: a!forEach( items: local!addressSugestion.result.places, expression: index(fv!item, "description", null) ), a!dataSubset( data: local!labels, identifiers: local!values, ) ), a!dataSubset( data: {}, identifiers: {}, totalCount: 0 ) ) ) Pleas

a!documentViewerField This function specifically, I have gotten it to work, by displaying a PDF file through creation of constants and inserting documents etc. However, my issue with this is that, though it works well on Desktop/Laptop, the additional features such as scrolling, printing, saving the document, editing, annotation, fit to window, rotate, search, functions are not available on Mobile/Tablet devices. Minimally, I want to allow my users to scroll up and down, why am I unable to do so?

Dear all, in the Online course I have the following quesiton: Which of the following use cases likely requires third party integrations? and one of the answer is "You want to automate a business process, such as sending out emails to subscribers." Taking into account online course and also this link (https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/25.3/email-in-appian.html), I understood that an integration is needed to send email in Appian. Instead in the Appian analyst practice exam the answer "You want to automate a business process, such as sending out emails to subscribers." is not correct. Can you please tell me if sending out emails required or not third party integration? Thanks a lot.

Can someone tell me what all options are correct for this question? Which two use-cases would require a third party integration? A customer needs to be able to share document with other Appian users A customer needs to be able to retain and store an extensive number of large, historical documents over a 7 year period A customer needs to collaborate on documents with non-Appian users in real time A customer needs to email copies of documents to non-appian users

Dear all, I'm studying for Appian Certified Analyst and I'm having some difficulties to understand different responsabilities between Product Owner and Business analyst. I'm studying on Online course ("Initiate and Buil for Appian analyst") and Appian Community documentation and I understood that Product Owner is responsible for creating the product blacklog and prioritaziong user stories in the product backlog. Also the Product Owner represent the needs of the business. Instead the Business Analyst has the responsbailities to create user stories, create personas, "HELP product owner to convert the needs of the business into actionable blacklog items". But If I try to answer to some Test Question in Online Appian Courses I found that "Prioritizing the backlog" is one of responsibilities of the business analyst in the Initiate phase. Can you please help me to understand this? thanks a lot.

Hi Appian, In our middleware server’s integration solution, we are calling an Appian Web API but receiving a 400 error. However, when we test the same Appian Web API call using curl from the middleware server, it works fine with a 200 response. Since there seems to be no difference between the two calls, I’m not sure why the 400 error occurs. If you have had a similar experience and resolved it, I would appreciate your advice. Thank you

Dear all can you please help me to understand why in the Appian analyst Practice Excam test question: What key capabilities of Appian’s unified low-code platform can be used to address common business requirements?  The Answer "Pre-built applications" is a wrong answer? This capability is also mention in this blog page: appian.com/.../top-7-low-code-capabilities-for-enterprise-businesses thanks a lot

I am following Steps-by-step Guide (#5) using Community Edition, and facing this issue can anyone help?  TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian Slovak Czech Italian Slovenian Danish Japanese Spanish Dutch Klingon Swedish English Korean Thai Estonian Latvian Turkish Finnish Lithuanian Ukrainian French Malay Urdu German Maltese Vietnamese Greek Norwegian Welsh Haitian Creole Persian TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster Portal Back

Hi everyone, I’m trying to configure Record Events for my record type (W2246AMA Vehicle) and I’m getting this warning: "You must have edit access to at least one of the applications this record type is in to generate event record types." Because of this, the Generate Event Record Types button is grayed out and I can’t move forward. Has anyone run into this before? Do I need edit rights on the whole application that contains the record type, or just the record itself? What’s the best way to resolve this? Thanks in advance! TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian Slovak Czech Italian Slovenian Danish Japanese Spanish Dutch Klingon Swedish English Korean Thai Estonian Latvian Turkish Finnish Lithuanian Ukrainian French Malay Urdu German Maltese Vietnamese Greek Norwegian Welsh Haitian Creo

Hello everyone, So I have a process model that involves a user submitting a form, putting in details before submitting. It basically involves the writing of some details to the record type before showing a confirmation page, which just shows the user a tick button of confirmation, requiring a done to submit. I have a few issues here. Firstly, the only reason I had the done button was because I attempted to let it auto-run of some sort before closing by itself, however, I could not achieve that. Next, I settled on a done button as upon clicking it will complete the process model. However, after my users started using it, I noticed that they do not click the done button always. Due to appian's process model clean up task not including active tasks, I believe active tasks will be active till forcibly ended by the admin. I also attempted to set a timer for the task, perhaps a deadline, attempted setting a and gateway to link directly to the end node, nothing changed, I'm still u

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Hi Team, I need Last working Day date of every month as i need to start process for every month Last working day. Let's say if i take Aug-2025 Month & its month end date is 31st & falls on Sunday but in my case process should trigger on 29th Aug which is a last working day. I need dynamic approach so that it iwll pick last working date & start process. prompt response really appreciated,Thanks

Hi all! New to Appian, and I am stuck on figuring out how to correct configure a dependent dropdown.  The first dropdown field is called "Plant," and its fields consist of plantId, value, & description. The second dropdown field is called "Storage Location," and its fields consist of werks, name1, & land1. Both queries have one similar field, which is "value" and "werks," but I need to call back "plantid." How would I do that? Thanks! 

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Background: I created some groups in my app and added my account to them. The app has a site that’s visible to all users, but one page within the site is only visible to specific groups. Questions: 1.When visiting this site, how can I switch between groups to test access? 2.I assume I can change my group by clicking this button (the first one in the screenshot). However, the groups I created aren’t listed here. How can I add them to this list? Additional Info: This issue occurred during the "Build an Application: Step-by-Step" hands-on practice. >When I set the visibility of the [My Task] page in the site to "Always show", I can access the [My Task] page. >But when I set its visibility to "Only visible to specific groups" (the intended setting), the [My Task] page doesn’t appear when I visit the site. Additionally, groups from other apps are shown in the button’s list, but my created groups (W1481SA Registers/Mechanics/S

Hi there，I need your kind support plz ! In my app, there is a Record Type as below: I want to use it to store the documents which are uploaded from a!fileUploadField item in an interface. The introduction of a!save() in Documentation of Appian didn't mention the way to save a document type, can I get the directon here?

Hi Team,I have created a new record type but in it , I am  not able to see any option of " Create Data from Scratch "

Hello,I’m trying to create a Custom Data Type (CDT) and a Data Store Entity (DSE) in Appian, but I don’t see any option to create them. I have checked the Data Types and Data Stores sections. The buttons or menu options for creating a new CDT or DSE are not visible. Is there a setting, permission, or prerequisite I might be missing?Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks!

I'm currently working on Step #5 of the "Build an Application (Step-by-Step Acme Auto)" guide. When attempting to configure the data source, there are no database tables available to select.   Additionally, I noticed that in the Acme Auto solution application, when I select the Vehicle record type, a banner appears at the top stating: "The data source cannot be reached or its configuration is invalid." I'm not sure if this is related to the issue, but I wanted to mention it in case it helps with troubleshooting. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hello, I'm currently trying to use the import excel to database smart service within my process model and it's completing but not updating my data store entity.Process model:Start -> User form -> Import Excel to DB smart service -> EndThe file that I input in the form is an excel file and gets saved, and I have also configured the smart service so that the data source is a constant that contains the text which is my datasource: "jdbc/{name}". Table name: {SQL database table name}", excel file: Process variable which is stored excel document. After configuring all of these as followed by a youtube video that showcased this smart service, the data is not saving.I made sure that my column headers(A1,B1,C1) are exactly as stated within my CDT and matches the data type.How would I fix this/do this differently?

I have main data store entity that comes from CDT, in this CDT has 2 related CDT's. I am currently trying to delete from main data store entity to then have impacts on the related ones. When I made a process model that takes user input that then results in "delete from data store entities" node to delete, it was working for a few unique identifiers before not working anymore. It has ConstraintViolation as the error that it's giving. I am just trying to clear all of the data that are within my DSE's but keep the structure there.

a!localVariables( local!bookinfo: if( a!isNotNullOrEmpty( ri!Lms_issuebook['recordType!{01e3b0e9-0572-442f-afd0-5278d2e5255e}LMS_books_issue.fields.{550c5ea8-8a07-4a21-9693-209c159c6319}bookId'] ), a!queryRecordType( recordType: 'recordType!{767ebc5c-7e43-47d6-926e-02e87bfe4826}LMS_BOOK', fields: { 'recordType!{767ebc5c-7e43-47d6-926e-02e87bfe4826}LMS_BOOK.fields.{92b7d831-6d1e-4319-941c-66d2c1b49a9f}author', 'recordType!{767ebc5c-7e43-47d6-926e-02e87bfe4826}LMS_BOOK.fields.{39d871be-ff6b-43bc-8200-4f5764212db4}availableCopies', 'recordType!{767ebc5c-7e43-47d6-926e-02e87bfe4826}LMS_BOOK.relationships.{23c62a5c-04db-4f30-89f0-4ccc4bb61a47}lmsGenre.fields.{d2da18ac-f795-482a-99d8-914552162ac1}value' }, filters: a!queryFilter( field: 'recordType!{767ebc5c-7e43-47d6-926e-02e87bfe4826}LMS_BOOK.fields.{8a72e153-4658-455c-a313-dc3d895c5ed3}bookId', operator: "=", value: ri!Lms_issuebook['recordType!{01e3b0e9-0572-442f-afd0-5278d2e5255e}LMS

Im getting the error when writing to data store:  ... " with identifier value `1007` does not exist  " . This is the value of my primary key I'm trying to insert into the data store. I already have the primary key from user input and I'm trying to write all of the info into an empty data store. (I would share screenshot but it's work information). This is occurring within my process model when I am using the write to data store smart service.  Why is this happening?

I am extremely new to Appian and looking for some answers. I have searched the forums to no avail. I have created a Site with multiple pages in it, one of them being a Contact Us page. On the Contact Us page, I have been trying to apply the expression link: a!safelink in an attempt to generate emails using our default email server (Outlook) once a person clicks the "Company Team Email" verbiage. Is this something that Appian is capable of doing?  This is my entire expression code: a!headerContentLayout(   header: {     a!cardLayout(       contents: {         a!richTextDisplayField(           labelPosition: "COLLAPSED",           value: {             a!richTextIcon(             &n