Appian not detecting custom plugin

RE: Appian not detecting custom plugin

Soujanya B — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 08:15:26 GMT

HI Miguel,

As alok said , when you add the plug -in to eclipse, it will take care of the structure and Here are the steps

Export your project as a JAR file.

Right-click your project and click Export….
Select the JAR file option as the Export destination.
On the Resources to export dialog, clear the .classpath and .project selections as these files are used exclusively by Eclipse.
Select the _admin/plugins folder of your installation directory for your export destination.
- This directory is created during application server startup.

RE: Appian not detecting custom plugin

Miguel — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 07:42:04 GMT

Hi, thanks for the reply. I wasn't sure what an i18N file was, but now I know, thanks! The thing is, I have exported the file using the appian eclipse plugin and the normal way. But for some reason it isn't working. I have checked the logs and nothing about my plugin is mentioned.

RE: Appian not detecting custom plugin

aloks0189 — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 07:17:29 GMT

Hi @Miguel when you are developing a plugin, it's a good option to have appian plugin for eclipse installed.

This will help you in creating project structure, i18N file, appian-plugins.xml file, exporting the application etc.

You can use following link to install the plugin in eclipse

s3.amazonaws.com/.../site.xml

While exporting the application, you can right click on project >> Appian >> export plugin project

This will make sure that files are properly arranged within their required folders/directories, else if you want to work without having this plug-in, then you need to follow the guidelines provided in Appian documentation about creating plugin project.

Hope it will help

RE: Appian not detecting custom plugin

Miguel — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 07:10:14 GMT

Thanks for the reply, I'll check the server logs to see if there is any problem. Also when exporting the jar file, is there any specific setting I need to include? I am exporting the plugin as a normal jar file and I importing the extra jar files I need (like sdks and extra libraries) using the java build path.

RE: Appian not detecting custom plugin

Miguel — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 07:06:21 GMT

Hello Justin, thanks for the response. Alright I'll see into it, also I am exporting the plugin as a normal jar file from eclipse. Is there any specific setting I must include when exporting the jar? What is a i18n properties file? Are you talking about the appian-plugin.xml? I might be missing something..

RE: Appian not detecting custom plugin

Amit Mishra — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 14:05:18 GMT

Once your JAR deployed to plugins folder, It should be displayed directly without doing anything specific. If not working, check with logs and if possible, restart the server (Generally, not required but in your case, you can attempt). Thanks.

RE: Appian not detecting custom plugin

Justin Watts — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 13:24:03 GMT

After deploying the JAR to the plugins directory, you should be able to see details about the deployment, including failures, in the application server log. Depending on your custom.properties setting, the deployment scanner may take a few minutes to try to process new plugins.

If you want to shorten that interval in a development environment, check out the instructions here: docs.appian.com/.../Appian_Plug-ins.html (applies to 17.2 as well)

At a glance, your structure seems ok, did you also create the appropriate i18n properties files?