Need to dump Appian User and related Group info into DB

RE: Need to dump Appian User and related Group info into DB

Siva — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 06:54:52 GMT

Hi Piyush Agarwal,

My idea is to write all the user details to DB in single call(Delete/archive the process immediately). I feel the below code with modifications will work.

load(

local!Users:getgroupmemberuserspaging(cons!APN_ALL_USERS),

local!Users,

a!forEach(

items:local!Users,

expression:

'type!{urn:com:nbnco:types:test}test_users'(

id:ri!users.id,

groupId:'type!{urn:com:nbnco:types:test}test_groups'(

id:ri!groups.id,

groupId:getgroupsformemberuser(fv!item)

)

Thanks

Siva Chimata

RE: Need to dump Appian User and related Group info into DB

Colton Beck — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 19:15:09 GMT

Yes, performance is always a concern with these types of activities. I recommend designing your model to batch these activities at a reasonable number of iterations and wait for the previous batch to complete before executing the next one. You should also leverage the Start Process smart service to ensure that requests are properly load balanced.

Finally, you can get around Appian's 1,000 node instance limit by checking the 'Delete previously cancelled/completed instances' selection in the relevant nodes' Other tabs. Keep in mind that this limit is in place for a reason, so be sure that your process is performant before making this change.

RE: Need to dump Appian User and related Group info into DB

Piyush Agarwal — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 19:09:11 GMT

issue is with iteration on number of user. If we have 10000 users then we need check all constraints Appian has with number of iteration.

RE: Need to dump Appian User and related Group info into DB

Colton Beck — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:59:41 GMT

Alternatively, you could leverage the getgroupsformemberuser() function from the People Functions plugin, which may make your dataset cleaner, given you want groups by user, instead of users by group.

RE: Need to dump Appian User and related Group info into DB

Colton Beck — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:48:52 GMT

If the user and group data is stored in the database, you can create a simple process to dump the data to an Excel file using the Export Data Store Entity to Excel smart service or one of the smart services available in the Excel Tools plugin, depending on what Appian version you're running.

If the user and group data is not already stored in the database and you want to store it there, you could create a process that leverages the getdistinctusers() function. You could have this function loop over each group in your application to retrieve its users, and then call the user() function on each of them to get the required metadata of the user. Then once you have the data in the format you want, you could write it to the database.

Does this help?