Is there any way to apply encryption on data while displaying in UI(SAIL Interface)

RE: Is there any way to apply encryption on data while displaying in UI(SAIL Interface)

venkatrea696188 — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 20:13:14 GMT

Either creating a custom plugin or if those are user entered values it's better to save it some where (Boolean value whether it's a encrypted text or not )

RE: Is there any way to apply encryption on data while displaying in UI(SAIL Interface)

erickp0002 — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 19:46:47 GMT

This is data the user enters such as social security number, name, address, etc.

RE: Is there any way to apply encryption on data while displaying in UI(SAIL Interface)

Mathieu Drouin — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:53:44 GMT

Honestly don't know how you could tell whether a value is encrypted or plain text.

RE: Is there any way to apply encryption on data while displaying in UI(SAIL Interface)

erickp0002 — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:02:42 GMT

I am using this plugin Encryption Functions This is an example to show case what I am trying to do:

a!textField(
label: "Owner Name",
placeholder: "Owner Name",
value:if(
rule!isEncrypted(string:local!test),
decryptvalue(local!test),
local!test
),
saveInto: {
a!save(local!test,encryptvalue(save!value))
},
required: true
)

Please let me know what your thoughts are and I am curious to know how others have implemented this.

RE: Is there any way to apply encryption on data while displaying in UI(SAIL Interface)

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:57:47 GMT

How does it come that you do not know whether a certain value is encrypted or not?

I do not know which function you use to encrypt the values. Could it be that the encrypted strings start or end with a certain pattern that you could try to detect? As this is not fool proof, the only supported option I see is, to write a plugin function.

RE: Is there any way to apply encryption on data while displaying in UI(SAIL Interface)

venkatrea696188 — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:27:16 GMT

I don't think there is a way , Can you tell us where you are getting this data from??

RE: Is there any way to apply encryption on data while displaying in UI(SAIL Interface)

erickp0002 — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:12:01 GMT

Do you know how can I tell if a string is encrypted or not? For example, if I encrypt a text and want to display the actual value, I need to decrypt it. But if the text was not encrypted before and I use the decrypt function, it will throw an error. So we need: if encrypted, then use decrypt function else just display the value. How can we do this?

RE: Is there any way to apply encryption on data while displaying in UI(SAIL Interface)

Mathieu Drouin — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:36:54 GMT

You can use this plugin: community.appian.com/.../encryption-functions

RE: Is there any way to apply encryption on data while displaying in UI(SAIL Interface)

piyusha6151 — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:34:54 GMT

encryptedtextFiled can be used to encrypt while saving into DB. But here what i am looking for if any data is being processed then if it can be encrypted at Appian level whether UI or process report etc.

RE: Is there any way to apply encryption on data while displaying in UI(SAIL Interface)

Mathieu Drouin — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:18:24 GMT

Was the data saved via an encryptedTextField or was encrypted using another method?

RE: Is there any way to apply encryption on data while displaying in UI(SAIL Interface)

jamesm4933 — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:10:14 GMT

The purpose of encryption is to make something meaningless to everyone who is not authorized. That being the case, you may want to consider simply not displaying it, or have some kind of meaningless place holder.

It is possible the a!encryptedTextField, might be what you are looking for, too.