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Can we only use Appian RPA for automation without creating any applications from Appian? I want to create a bot for this: "">www.rpachallenge.com/.". I want to automate this site. For this automation, I have one Excel file, read the data one by one, fill it on the RPA challenge form, and click submit.Is it possible in the Appian RPA? if possible, then how can we start the process?is there any need to excel data store to database?

Hi I have connected Microsoft SQL server data base with connected system - connection is successfulit consists of real time data in employee table I need to bring that table data and store it in Appian DB and should sync the ms sql table and appian db table daily

Hi All, I got one change request, to show the date in "MMM-DD" format for the current calendar year, I think this can be achieved by concatenating two dropdowns (when user selects month in the first dropdown and  second drop down should show days in the months) and  I need to write some code to do that. Can anyone please guide me in achieving the same? Thanks in advance. We are using Appian 23.3 version.  Thanks

I am new to Appian and We have a scenario that   we are providing one form to customers. in that form we are giving them one link (Related to another application), the provided link has login details, now my scenario was customer don't want to enter login details. we need to fetch from admin console --third party credentials and we need to pass those values to that link, is there any possibility to do these task.

Hi All, We have a Entity based record, in which multiple views were manually created. Requirement is to set some dynamic icons or text as the name of the Views. I have tried the below code to show an icon but the output is not as expected. Appreciate any suggestions on this. Thanks in advance. View name coming with attributes as:

Hi All, I have one requirement where a entity backed syncd record list is configured with initial sort on created date column to show the latest cases first. Now they want to change this sort to change and show the oldest case first when they apply any record filter. For example: I selected a record filter to show only Open cases, then the sort of the grid should change to show the oldest case first. Any idea how we can achieve this?

I am performing image recognition which is provided by RPA learning path, but in that it is not showing me result of image addition i.e 13. For reference[View:/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/61/21.1-RPA-Tutorial-_5F00_-ImageRecognition-Low-Code_2D00_-105_2D00_2.pdf:320:240]

Hi, I Need to Generate a new excel document using Export Data Store Entity to Excel Smart Service. How can we generate a new document with headers colored ?? Can we add color to a cell using Parameters: custom cell position and custom cell values, if yes how??

I'm trying to get the User Filters that are currently applied in a readonly grid to use them in a Process Model, but I don´t find a way to do it. Is it possible to retrieve that data?

DocuSign integration I have seen another project where when they create an envelope, they send a draft envelope to DocuSign. When the envelope is created, they call an integration object to retrieve a url like below: Apologies for the blurry images, but this is the setup to this integration object: In the Response Body in the first image, there is an http url. They are able to take that url and provide it as a link in an Appian interface, so that a user can click on that link and immediately see the DocuSign draft envelope configuration screen, where they are able to configure signer and recipient information before sending the envelope off to be signed. We want to replicate that in our project, however, we're using Appian's OOB DocuSign objects. Our connected system is below: We're not able to generate a similar URL. When we create and send envelopes, this is the only thing we see: If we try to get envelope definition (operation Get Envelope Definition), this is all we

I am creating multiple employees through process model and I need to create folder for each employee I am using create folder smart service. Can anybody suggest how can i create multiple folder for multiple employee 

I am working through the "RPA Tutorial: Parse Excel Files" and I can't get the Add Excel data to database function to work.  I believe the issue stems from the "ExcelDocumentID" variable is null.  I can't find anywhere in the training where the Document ID gets passed to the variable.  Has anyone else completed this training?  Am I missing something?

Hi Champs, I want to create basic user dynamically through coding. Can that be possible? Regards, Ghanashyam

Hello, I want to generate CSV file and send it via mail.  There are smart services through we can generate CSV file but in this case my data is not stored in tables.  Please see below:  Functionality to generate CSV file on demand and send it to the User. In this Case since data is not yet saved in Appian tables, fetch inputs from Process Variables and generate the CSV when User clicks the button. Can anyone help me in this? Thanks

New to Appian, trying out the Practice projects, and have run into this feature more than a couple of times.  Since I don't understand what it is, I'm having trouble translating the exercises into keystrokes.  In the latest example of "typing blind:" Where am I? Online Course | Learning at Appian Tutorial: Mobile Pocket Library 4 Interface Design ShowBookDetails Interface ... 8. In the Component Configuration window under your rule inputs drill down into the columns by clicking Section Layout. Next, click the List of Components link under Contents. Click Columns Layout. Find and select the “Show dividers” feature. 9. Our first column will display the book’s cover image if it is available. To do this, drag and drop a WEB CONTENT field from the components tab into the top column. ○ In the Component Configuration window, change the label to Cover. ○ Edit the Source as an expression by clicking the pencil icon that appears on hover. You are goi

Hi, I want to open excel workbook after using download document action in RPA. So in download document I am using a variable that receives the excel file from interface & process model, on execution I can see the file downloaded in the provided path. I have 2 issues : - The variable for file shows as null instead of the document value coming from the interface and PM, even when it successfully downloads it?Thanks in advance.

Hi Team, I created a Application and I want to add chatbot in that application. Can we do this requirement in Appian? if so what are the steps to implement chatbot.  Regards, J Vinay

I am using a windows machine and while trying to use the Task Recorder on Appian RPA by following the Tutorial: Get Soccer Stats with RPA, being stored at step: Create Robotic Task: Hover over the headshot for Lionel Messi, click Actions, and select Get attribute...Under Save into, click the plus button to create a new variable to save the values into.  It won't be able to create or search existing variable, because it cannot set variable  type to Text  as well as cannot search existing variable your advice and help is very appreciated!   thanks!

Hello guys, i have an issue when saving data into the record type.  In my application i have following record types:  1. Record Type "Employees" which contains "employeeID","firstName","lastName","email", ... I have a interface where i can add this data, i created a process model that saves this data and it creates a basic user in appian based on this data 2. Record Type "Vacation Requests" which contains "requestID","employeeID","startDate","endDate","approved" In my process model "Create Vacation Request", i added a script task which should store "employeeID" into "Vacation Requests" record type.  I created an expression rule "EAA_GetCurrentUserID" whish contains:  I use this query in my script task's Output tab to store logged in user's ID into my process variable and then store it in "employeeID&quo

Hii,       I have to involve Business Rules given by admin by controlling the internal team or percentage through Admin page. Details:      We have 3 internal teams, who will approve the request sent, now, ADMIN can set the internal teams, it might be 2 or 1 or 3. I am using Internal team Group which Contain 3 subgroups (Eg: PricingTeam, transportTeam,CashTeam) - Depends on Admin selection it should move forward. If Admin gave for x case it should go to only pricing and cash team, next time  he change for the x case to only pricing. Thanks,

I got an error message in a Process Model that is running a script task to update on a recordType. Error writing to process variables (Invalid a1e14d1a-f90e-42c0-821e-33ec2665fafd: Cannot validate type, incorrect number of elements, Invalid c3c2a3f4-623c-4f0a-b2fc-d893215c2897: Cannot validate type... (Data Outputs) The individual is a foreign key being passed to the following. The first one: a1e14d1a-f90e-42c0-821e-33ec2665fafd is a phone number record. The second one: c3c2a3f4-623c-4f0a-b2fc-d893215c2897 is an email  record. if(rule!AF_RULE_General_isEmpty(pv!emails), {},repeat(count(pv!emails), pv!individual['recordType!{3d84f28c-0ab1-4452-aa14-6f0eaa2b6612}OLMS REC Individual.fields.{6942f6b1-21e5-418a-9944-1d58af72dba2}individualId'])) if(rule!AF_RULE_General_isEmpty(pv!phoneNumber),{},repeat(count(pv!phoneNumber), pv!individual['recordType!{3d84f28c-0ab1-4452-aa14-6f0eaa2b6612}OLMS REC Individual.fields.{6942f6b1-21e5-418a-9944-1d58af72dba2}individualId'])) What c

Hello All, After doing an upgrade of Appian servers to the latest version as per the documentation, I am losing the data which is present previously in the older version. Is there any suggestion from your end? that will be most helpful. PFA docs.appian.com/.../Upgrade_Guide.html

I want to generate 24 months based on the given month and year. for ex: if i gave "Nov-23" as rule input i want to get next 24 months list, result something like this {Dec-23,jan-24,feb-24,mar-24,apr-24}. can someone help to achieve this

I have installed the installer and Java V6.0 as well but not able to make my robot online in Appian. Can someone please help me to get my robot online?

I have below code. Can someone help how to break it into batches/looping in dynamic way. Its reaching threshold so i need to convert into batches/looping. a!queryEntity( entity: cons!MA_DSE_ABC, query: a!query( logicalExpression: a!queryLogicalExpression( operator: "AND", filters: { a!queryFilter( field: "Name", operator: "=", value: ri!name, applyWhen: not(isnull(ri!name)) ), a!queryFilter( field: "Id", operator: "=", value: ri!id, applyWhen: not(isnull(ri!id)) ), } ), pagingInfo: a!pagingInfo(startIndex: 1, batchSize: 2000) ), fetchTotalCount: true() ),