Is there a way to modify process model details? specifically created by and modified by

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Harsh Kumar Agarwal — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:02:41 GMT

There is a workaround for lower environment but recommended approach is Appian direct deployment.

You can create a new process model folder named as 'Dummy PM' and move all the process model of application to Dummy PM folder and move back to original folder and then delete the Dummy PM folder.

This way 'Last Modified' can be updated without using any plugin.

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Mike Schmitt — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 17:09:59 GMT

Thanks - and I agree; i've been using it in my dev environment to mitigate issues originally caused by the entire original dev team being deactivated, and haven't come up with any downsides yet. Especially since we can now edit usernames.

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pauls0008 — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 16:18:56 GMT

This approach sounds more pragmatic. Thanks again

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Mike Schmitt — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:42:33 GMT

One workaround I've also come up with, in case this helps - only something you can use in Dev environments for obvious reasons - if there is a deactivated user account that "owns" a lot of different process models and is particularly problematic, it's possible to reactivate that user, set them as an admin, rename them to something sorta generic, then add them to the service accounts group. Being a member of the service accounts group keeps that user from being able to ever do a normal login, mitigating any extra security concerns from this approach.

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pauls0008 — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 08:21:41 GMT

Thanks Mike, will check out suggestion.

Yes its only an issue in DEV as deployments to higher environments use a service account.

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Mike Schmitt — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 16:05:09 GMT

Check out the plug-in "republish as user", for your dev environment. This will allow you (after doing some busy work ahead of time) to programmatically republish a list of process models under the authority of a different account (preferably a service account etc).

For your production environment (and hopefully other environments above dev), hopefully you've already been doing automated deployments under the username of a service account, which of course completely prevents this issue in the first place.