Is it possible to move our Appian documents of a specific knowledge into another Appian Enivronment?

RE: Is it possible to move our Appian documents of a specific knowledge into another Appian Enivronment?

harrisont606 — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:04:34 GMT

This should work, but I have seen memory leak issues with that plugin in the past, which were confirmed by Appian. I'm not sure if those have been rectified since.

RE: Is it possible to move our Appian documents of a specific knowledge into another Appian Enivronment?

Robert Shankin — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 16:54:06 GMT

Hi Juri -

There's a workable configuration to send lots of docs from one instance to another provided both Appian instances can reach a shared database.

The shared component 'Base 64 Document Database Integration Smart Services' enables you to transform files to base 64 strings and put them into a database table. A base 64 string in a table can then be transformed back into a file and placed in an Appian folder on the target system.

It's going to be critical that you manage the size of the db table used to transport the files.
So, be sure to clean it up (i.e. delete each row after it's successfully moved to the new environment).

Be sure to follow the included documentation for this plugin and you'll be up and running quickly:
forum.appian.com/.../summary

RE: Is it possible to move our Appian documents of a specific knowledge into another Appian Enivronment?

harrisont606 — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 16:42:03 GMT

If the app is too large to export, you could consider building a PM to send over documents in the source env via Web API and another PM or Web API to accept documents in the target env. You can configure your source PM to iterate through the documents, and let it run overnight.