https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/appian-community-edition/40323/unable-to-access-database-create-a-datamodel-in-appian-communityHi Team Iam working in appain community edition and trying to create a record type and facing the following problems like 1 .not getting start from scratch option while creating record type 2. when selecting database option it shows error : dataen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/154172?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:17:28 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:e3d6c4ad-e25d-49f1-b7e1-4f9e97f26150Mike Schmitt<p>Unfortunately this is the expected behavior.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/154171?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:13:21 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:050a0ee4-32d8-4739-985b-6273d243bda9Shubham Aware<p>You need to create a workspace to get access to the database, but CDTs and Data Stores are still restricted in Appian Community Edition. <br />Refer to the documentation below for more details.<br /><br />Workspace -&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="/p/community-edition-guide#about">https://community.appian.com/p/community-edition-guide#about</a><a href="/p/community-edition-guide#about"><br /></a>Appian Community Edition Product Restrictions -&nbsp;<a href="/p/community-edition-guide#restrictions">https://community.appian.com/p/community-edition-guide#restrictions</a></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>