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Is there a discord channel or something similar where I can ask questions in real time? I can't find anything that I need in the documentation and I really can't believe that I'm the first person to be asking some of these questions as to why Appian doesn't do certain things out of the box considering it is supposed to be a "low code" solution.

Hi team, where we can find the sample invoice documents in our Appian documentation? to train the document classification model. thanks in advance!

Created a Custom Plugin jar, based on the instructions mentioned in https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/24.4/Custom_Smart_Service_Plug-ins.html . Deployed the jar in admin/plugins folder as per the instructions. The plugin does not load and show up Process Modeler. The server and Appian(on-prem) instances starts up normally.

Hi community, I'm having some issues regarding the deployment of a custom component plugin. When I deploy it via Admin Console or Hot deploy (by placing manually the plugin in the path \appian\_admin\plugins), it is not being updated on the enviroment. It always use a previous version. Why is this happening? And what could I do to end this behaviour? 

So i created a constant for all the company names which is normally a best practise in the appian application.  and then i called this constant in a filter But then when i was using the filter it wasnt working and all the values were showing in the same line idk why this is happening can anyone guide me how to rectify this error.

Hello All, Redirected to "Access Denied Page" if I enter  ../ in the text box, is this expected? a!localVariables( local!searchKeyword, a!columnsLayout( columns: { a!columnLayout( contents: { a!textField( label: "Search By Keyword", value: local!searchKeyword, saveInto: { local!searchKeyword, a!save( local!searchKeyword, trim(local!searchKeyword) ) }, refreshAfter: "KEYPRESS" ) } ) } ) ) Key in../ and click on enter, then the page below is displayed, any idea why? Application logs:

I am currently streaming logs onto a syslog server and would like to come up with a series of programmed alerts to identify potential security risks. But it's not always clear how to use the log fields to come up with these alerts. Has anyone done this exercise before and can provide some more info on which fields can be used in which ways to identify potential security risks? *For example*, the authz-audit.csv log records information about the authorization of already authenticated users within the system. I could check the Decision field to see if someone was DENIED access to a certain uri (Action Target and Action Name fields), but (a) it's hard to understand some of the info within the fields and (b) it's unclear how to distinguish a legitimate denial from a potential security threat. Any ideas would be much appreciated. FWIW, I'm currently grabbing the Streaming logs and have already looked through the Logging Documenation.

a!richTextDisplayField( value: a!richTextItem( text: "Download Document", link: a!documentDownloadLink( document: todocument(110854) ) ) ) I am trying to download a document (The document exists in the folder ) but it is giving an error like: { "error": "APNX-1-0000-000", "message": "Unable to find File for content object with id: 110829", "title": "An Error Has Occurred" }

I have created a integration for integrate google chat space but it shows an error like :-  "error-result-label You are not permitted to perform the requested operation error-result-guidance The external system understood the request but refused to authorize it HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden" When I click on "Click here to authorize," the authorization is successful, but it still shows the same error afterward. Am I forgetting to pass any necessary parameters?

Is to possible to save useris, timestamp  and other details to database when user Accepts or reassign the task using default buttons shown below.

when user with basic permission they click on  Record action they got  above error ,If same scenario try by myself with administrator permission  it's work fine for me , Basic user have appropriate security permission for Record access and actions   Note: If we think it is related to access issue either we get 401 or 403 issues but it get's different one 

I have a structure of record type A like this: {id: other business field:, relationships: record Type2: { id, A_id, other business field } recordType3:  { id, A_id, other business field } }, After user change the data, I want to check whether the business field is actually modified. What I thought is to traverse the list of this record and construct new objects using the business field, use the new objects to compare. I want to know is this the only way to solve my problem? Is there any easy way can solve this.  

Please observe the result of these forEach, (1. and 2.): 1. a!forEach(   items: {1,2,3,4,5},   expression:    if ( fv!item > 3,     fv!item,     {}   ) ) results in  meanwhile 2.  a!forEach(   items: {1,2,3,4,5},  expression:   if ( fv!item > 3,    fv!item,    null   ) ) results in  Question: Why forEach 1. does not outcome five members in the list?, I expected this result List of Variant - 0 items List of Variant - 0 items List of Variant - 0 items 4(Number (Integer)) 5(Number (Integer))

Hi everyone, I'm working with Appian 25.2 on Windows, and I want to change the default HTTP port from 8080 to 80. Here’s what I’ve done so far: I did not modify anything in <APPIAN_HOME>, as per Appian's official recommendations. I located the file tomcatResources.xml inside <REPO_HOME>\conf. I added this connector definition: <Connector port="80" protocol="HTTP/1.1" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="443" /> I ran configure.bat from the root of the configuration repository. It completed successfully with no errors. I did not start the Appian environment, I only checked the generated file at: <APPIAN_HOME>\tomcat\apache-tomcat\conf\server.xml And I noticed that the port is still set to 8080 instead of 80.  What else should I check or configure to get the port changed properly to 80?

I have a column in database view of type decimal (20,2) and it can take both negative and positive number. Now on downloading excel doc via out-of-the box feature (Export Data Store Entity to Excel), all the number are being quoted inside single quotes but not the positive ones. Any way to get rid of this?

Hi every one,  My team wants set up a connected system with MS teams, but having no idea how to start. Is there any documentation or could you explain to me where can I find the data to input into the fields in below screenshot please?  Thanks so much,

The process model is showing as invalid, but there are no logs indicating the reason for the invalid status. I’ve reviewed all subprocesses, and they appear to be valid. What could be the possible cause? Is there a standard or recommended approach to debugging this issue?

I am doing example "Build an Application: Step 10". This is where you build from scratch a simple process model to enter in a maintenance request. Everything work fine from the process start form to writing the data back to the Maintenance recordType. However, the XOR cancel does not work. When I click it, the flow process as if I am submitting the form. I followed the step by step instructions exactly. I even completely deleted the XOR and is corresponding End node and rebuilt. Still same thing. 

In the below piece of code, I'm attempting to update "id" value to 567. The output expected is the same as what is in local!groupEndpointResponse with the updated value of id. a!localVariables( local!groupsEndpointResponse:{ {totalResults: 1, startIndex: 1, itemsPerPage: 100, schemas: {"schema1"}, Resources: { {meta: {created: fn!datetime(2024, 12, 8, 3, 12, 45, 350), lastModified: fn!datetime(2024, 12, 8, 3, 12, 46, 910), resourceType: "Group"}, displayName: "Abc", members: {{display: "Joe", value: "123"}}, externalId: "null", id: 2}}}, {totalResults: 1, startIndex: 1, itemsPerPage: 100, schemas: {"schema2"}, Resources: { {meta: {created: fn!datetime(2024, 12, 8, 3, 12, 45, 690), lastModified: fn!datetime(2024, 12, 8, 3, 12, 46, 770), resourceType: "Group"}, displayName: "lmn", members: {{display: "Sam", value: "789"}}, externalId: "null", id: 2}}}}, a!f

Hi All, i want to know , how to configure the below logic BY default all the option should be selected. and also in dropdown i can have the option to deselect all /select all along with all the options. Please help me how i can go about this

I have used an multiple dropdown box here and whenever i try to select more than 1 option from the multiple dropdown list it is showing this error. Can anyone please guide me through this issue kindly.Thanks and Regards.

Hello. I am having a trouble while using this plug-in. i am trying to get data from a cell in an excel file but the file is in the xlsb format and the plug in gives me the following error : Expression evaluation error at function 'readexcelsheetpaging': com.github.pjfanning.xlsx.exceptions.OpenException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence. is there anyway to use this plugin for these files? Or is there any work-around to get this same functionality? This is a step in my process model where the user has submitted the excel document. 

My company has a huge process model, includes hundreds of nodes and a lot sub process, there are a lot form nodes in this pm, they all having activity chaining and assigned to same user, we are developing on this pm and also have changes on ui and forms. When user finish and submit this form, will automatically redirect to next form node and do next form. Form data is complex list of cdt saves in process variables, and will write to db The problem is, our form can add multiple blocks of a same form, this can make list of data very big, when we added too many form blocks, likely 30 + blocks, then submit, then it shows a little action complete banner, and redirects to home page, but you can countiune this process and find next task in current user’s tasks, user can countiune task with no error. And in process instance monitoring, no error.  I guess it’s data size problem, but I didn’t find a way to resolve this problem, some times there will be a huge form.

I have a client request to look into the capabilities of converting Rich Text Format (RTF) into HTML. This is not regular rich text encoding, it's the older version of it. A sample might look something such as this  "{\rtf1\ansi\deff0 {\fonttbl {\f0 Times New Roman;}} \f0\fs24 Hello, world!}" I cannot seem to find any information on interactions between Appian and RTF. All of my searches return information relating to Appian's new rich text editor components. Is this something that simply does not exist? Was RTF deemed "too old" for Appian to work with it? Any information on the topic would be a huge help, even if it's just confirmation that there is nothing that currently handles RTF within Appian.

Hi Team, Whether we have any documentation on the difference between all the authentication types as mentioned in the subject of this post. Because, when I have gone through Appian documentation not able to get the difference clearly. Kindly guide me.