You must have edit access to at least one of the applications this record type is in to generate event record type

I am writing to ask for the best workaround for this issue where, in Community Edition, the generate events "wizard" usually fails with this message, "You must have edit access to at least one of the applications this record type is in to generate event record types".  Appian Community Edition Support <communityedition@appian.com> responded to me saying that engineering is aware and working on a solution.  The workaroud suggested is to manually create the record types and press the "Use Existing" button.  This gets me part of the way.  

After creating the Event Type, Event History, Reply Thread and Subscriber record types and their relationships, is it sufficient to add rows to the Event Type table to accomplish what the Generate Events was supposed to do?

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