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Hello Community, I have developed a custom plugin for Appian and have completed initial testing within the Appian testing environment. Now, I would like to test this plugin outside of the Appian platform to ensure its robustness and compatibility in different scenarios. Could anyone suggest tools, frameworks, or best practices for testing Appian plugins externally? Are there any recommended approaches for simulating the Appian environment or mocking necessary services for comprehensive plugin testing? Any advice or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated! Thank you,

Hi All, I am experiencing an integration error while attempting to connect to a Start Process Web API within the same environment. I have tested the connection using Postman, and it works fine.

Hi All, I need to retrieve and send file over the ftp/SFTP location with basic user credentials ( username & password only). I am going through the Appian plugin for the same but it ask private key as well. Is there any way to archive the requirement without private key? Thanks in advance.

I have a Process model where the flow of nodes is like this: I am sending a file to SFTP temporary folder, and adding a delay time node for 10 seconds and next i am using a Rename and Move file over SFTP smart node where i am renaming the file and then moving it from temporary SFTP folder to another permanent folder. At this point, the system is throwing the below error: 'Error renaming file in the remote server. See application server log for more details. Error Message: Specified file path is invalid.' My guess here is that the file is not having enough time to move from one folder to another, because if I just restart the node its working fine. How do i add a delay in the 'Rename and Move File Over SFTP' so that the file will have enough time to move from one folder to another. 

Hi all, I am working on an existing project that uses records, where I am used to CDTs. This project utilizes one central record type of "metrics" and each metric has metadata (fields), some of which is tied to other record types with one-to-many and many-to-one relationships. I can't include pictures, so writing out the general set up in dummy code: Record Type: Metric Fields: id / integer metricName / text ... riskType / integer  User Filters: metricName / a!recordFilterList(...filter: a!queryFilter(field: Metric.metricName, operator: "="...)) riskType / Risk Type.value  Record Type: Risk Type Fields: id / integer value / text The relationship: Metric.riskType = Risk Type.id  The "Risk Type" field is a many to one record type relationship with the Metric record type, and is selected via the front end in a single dropdown. I would like to change this to a multidropdown, but was unable to change the field to take multiple integers. I created a

Hi All, I have a requirement where I need to generate a PDF with dynamic values (which includes tables). I have been first generating HTML file using HTML Doc from Template smart service and later using HTML to PDF smart service but I have below mentioned issues with that smart service. Any help on the below is much appreciated!! 1. I need to insert images (icons and stamps) in the HTML but I couldnt able to. I have checked in community and found that we need to convert the image to base64 and then send the value to HTML. I have no idea on how to convert document to base64. I checked in appmarket but couldnt find any plugins as well.  2. I need to add three column footer. I have been using the below HTML code for the same, but I am not getting the right side value and footer is not getting aligned with the page margins or the body. I have given the values of A4 size in HTML to PDF smartservice( width 210 and height 297). HTML Style: <style> @page { size: A4; margin

How would one use a Textract Adapter when calling AnalyzeDocument or StartDocumentAnalysis in Appian? I'm not quite sure how to provide the adapter ID when calling Analyze Document from an Appian Integration. I'm currently using the AWS Textract Connected System that Appian provides for all of my AWS Integrations, but it appears you cannot pass in any adapter IDs, should I be using a web API instead?

Hi everyone, We're working with the scimPatchGroup() function from Appian's SCIM User Management application and would appreciate some clarification on the expected inputs for each parameter based on our current configuration. Here’s what we have so far: scimGroupType: We're passing 1, which corresponds to the Group Type ID for our SCIM-managed groups (1 - SCIM). This is the group type under which the group (from which users are being removed) is defined. jsonBody: We're using the following format: { "schemas": "urn:SCHEMA", "Operations": [ { "op": "remove", "path": "members", "value": [ { "value": "abc@gmail.com" } ] } ] } attributeMappings: We're using the default mappings from the SCIM application: [ { "appianAttribute": "ExternalId", "scimAttribute": "externalId", "jsonPath": "$.externalId" }, { "appianAttribute": "GroupName", "scimAttribute": "dis

Hi everyone, There is a read-only grid that uses a record-type data source. The table structure is as follows: Request Id (Primary Key) Name (varchar) In the grid filters, I’m applying a filter on the Request Id using the IN operator, and passing the values {9, 5, 3}. However, the grid displays the results in sorted order as {3, 5, 9}. I want the grid to display the records in the same sequence as the values I pass in the filter — i.e., {9, 5, 3} — without sorting them. How can I achieve this? Thanks in advance !

Hello Everyone, I have a requirement to generate excel file contains 2 sheets in it. In my case there is already one file generating using Export DSE to Excel, below approaches i tried but no luck. Can anyone help me on this Approaches:- 1.2 DSE nodes with merge excel documents but this won't suffice my requirement2.Used Combine excel sheets plugin but this is not working as expected getting error as Invalid Null arguments & output of this node have integer type Hoping to get responses from you guys thanks

Hi All, I am using the Advanced IDP to extract Key-Value pairs from a PDF. Even though the key - values are present in a 2 columns table, I decided to use Key-Value extraction instead of table extraction as each key occurs only once. I can see the extracted values properly in the IDP object, in the output of IDP in the process, but whenever I am assigning the values to individual variables or CDT inside a process, lot of additional semi colons are getting appended along with repetition of the main value. I could see a pattern - if the key is available in the 3rd row of the table, then 2 semi colons are getting appended before the value, if the key is in 4th row, then 3 semi colons and so on. Example: ; ; abcde; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; abcde; ; ; ; Any idea?

We have Appdyamics Java agent deployed on Appian application servers which is monitoring the performance of application. We want to enable End User Experience Monitoring for Appian. We need to add the appdynamics Javascript agent into the application pages to do same, please let me know if there is any html/jsp page which is common in all application where I can inject the Javascript agent. If there is no common page, please let me know in which all pages I need to inject the JS file so I can monitor all the apps. If you have worked on any such request in past please help us with sharing your experience on same.

There are many components in my interface, and each component has their own validations. I want to implement a require like if any validation is triggered, the submit button should be disable. Is there any easy way I can achieve that? Or I can only write all the validations again in disable.

Read Only grid is working in Dev and test environment but in preprod it is giving error that {something like UUID } field does not exists. I have tried to comment all grid columns and uncommented one by one. Two Grid columns are giving error. But I am not able to find out why. As same Record Fields are used multiple places in interface and its working as expected there. Only in Grid Column its giving error.

Hi all, We have just upgraded Appian from 23.3 to Appian 25.2 and when starting Tomcat we have found the following error in the log: [PUT], host [http://localhost:9200], URI [/user-activity-8-0/_settings?master_timeout=30s&timeout=30s], status line [HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized] {"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"security_exception","reason":"unable to authenticate user [appian] for REST request [/user-activity-8-0/_settings?master_timeout=30s&timeout=30s]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":["Basic realm=\"security\", charset=\"UTF-8\"","ApiKey"]}}],"type":"security_exception","reason":"unable to authenticate user [appian] for REST request [/user-activity-8-0/_settings?master_timeout=30s&timeout=30s]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":["Basic realm=\"security\", charset=\"UTF-8\"","ApiKey"]}},"status":401} at org.elasticsearch.client.RestCli

Hi All, I am having requirement to configure timer in Start Event node of process model. I want this timer to execute on specific 'date and time'. This date and time is coming as an output of one expression rule which is returning 'date and time' datatype output. Output of Expression Rule: 7/26/2025 12:00 AM GMT+00:00 Please help me at what all places what all things I have to configure to run process model once on this day at that specific time

Our team is exploring the use of the a!recordsChatField and the new smart search capability.  Our use case: Business is using a web page with lots of links to access apps (both Appian and non-Appian). Users would like to be able to find the app they need without having to scroll through the "link farm". We have built a form in Appian to provide a better user experience and would like to add an AI component that will allow users to find the link they need quickly.  We have tried using smart search but are finding it is somewhat limited and does not provide the results we are looking for, plus the text output is rather lengthy. We are looking for a one-sentence result instead of multiple paragraphs of information. We have a record that contains the list of all the apps, their descriptions, and their urls. a!recordsChatField provides much better results by providing the name of the app, its description and its url, however it would be great if in the results

I'm getting an error when trying to publish a model using AI Skills (Extraction). Could this be a restriction of the Community Edition, or is there something I need to configure?

I'm currently passing emailaddresses in each line but when i submit it is storing values as test@test.com;test2@test.com  but it has tostore in db as in new line and it has to be passed to an integration as {"test@test.com,test2@test.com"} Can someone please help

What are the steps involved to migrate appian from on-prem to cloud.

Hi everyone, I’m a PhD student researching low-code development. It’s impressive to see more and more people discovering low-code and no-code tools and using them in their work. I recently completed a study in collaboration with a consulting company that provides low-code solutions to its clients. Through interviews, I learned that many people without formal software development education are now able to step into this field thanks to low-code platforms. For many, this has created new career opportunities and pathways into tech. I also noticed that consulting firms often play an important role as partners of low-code vendors, acting as a bridge between platform providers and client companies. Beyond these observations, I’m interested in understanding how developers themselves feel about working with low-code development platforms—both the benefits and the challenges. Based on the collected responses, I found Appian was one of the most mentioned platforms. I beli

Hi Everyone, Is there any way or smart service to generate the .MSG file whenever receive an email to Appian . We know, there is smart service eml and msg conversation plugin but would like to do it in one step and don't want to dependent on the too many third-party plugins. Also once generated the .MSG ,need to read and  display in the UI screen . Please let mw know, Any implementation around it. Thanks!!

Hello! When it comes to AI tools in the context of automation testing (e.g. AI generation of automated tests, AI automatically fixing broken locators after a change, etc.), what support, and compatibility from/within Appian is expected currently and in future?

Hi Team, We are using Kafka Tools plugin to utilize consume and Publish Kafka services. We can able to perform publish Kafka service without any issues. But when comes to Consume Kafka we have questions as follows, Consume Kafka service shows isSuccess output as true but it didn't received Kafka server. To find reason which log we should check? What is the difference between Group ID and Topics? whether we have to pass both as same? Deserializer Class Name field is not mandatory? if we pass "io.confluent.kafka.serializers.json.KafkaJsonSchemaDeserializer"  as deserializer it throws error like io.confluent.kafka.serializers.json.KafkaJsonSchemaDeserializer not found by com.appiancorp.cs.plugin.kafka [50] And in the process model, why TM_Transaction variable is not populated with value after consume Kafka service showing it is success?

  a!gridLayout( labelPosition: "ABOVE", headerCells: { a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(label: "Reference Number"), a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(label: "SiteID"), a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(label: "Activity"), a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(label: "Structure Type"), a!flatten(a!forEach( items: local!TaskParagraphCDT.TaskName, expression: { /*a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(label: fv!item & " Status"),*/ a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(label: fv!item), } )), a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(label: "Rule"), }, columnConfigs: {