User Experience Design

Hi team, I have a gridfield where a gridcolumn has a value who's character count can go upto 2500. I want to implement a functionality where i display only 200 chars and show a link "more". When I click on the link, either a popup appears where the entire 2500 char text is displayed or another site appears to display the whole value. How can I achieve this? I tried to use safelink, but I am not sure how to configure the uri to display the text. Can anyone please help me out. So far, i have achieved this,a!gridColumn( label: "Enter 2500 char text", value: a!richTextDisplayField( value:{a!richTextItem( text: left(fv!row.textValue,255) ), a!richTextItem( text:"..more", link: a!safeLink( ) ) } ) )

I have an editable grid in the site where I want to upload a document from the ‘Add Document’ link. It doesn’t work on the site, but it works in the object. 

I went through the previous threads, and from a discussion 11 months ago, it was mentioned that Appian doesn't support dark mode. Are there any updates or changes on this now? I noticed that Appian does have a dark mode for sites ("Site Color Schemes - Appian 23.1"). The challenge arises in our application (and likely most applications), as we have multiple interfaces. I’ve seen many people refer to using browser extensions for this. So, my question is: What’s the best way to incorporate Appian's dark mode into industry-level applications in 2025? If its Browser Extension, what is the safest Browser Extension?

Hello,I have a floating point field in UI designed with decimal(12,2) in the backend .In the UI when I entered the number , its converting to scientific notation.How can I avoid this . Thanks   

Hi,I am creating a user with Add User smart service,  I have a membership rule for a SAML that includes this username.The email that is generated includes a temporary pwd and a link with ?signin=nativeWithout disabling Send Account Creation Email and creating a custom email, is there a way to suppress the pwd and link to saml sign in page Thanks 

I am using “Style Text Editor “ Field for one of the input field and set the character limit to 4000 .It is showing validation for 99 percent itself that It has reached the maximum limit.May I know Why it is happening like this and how the bolded/Italic values consumes the field characters and showing the warning without reaching 100 percent.How this issue can be resolved?

HI, Looking for some help, we are using richTextFieldWithTables plugin  to show HTML data inside an interface, this richTextFieldWithTables is inside a cardLayout as the section may repeat multiple times.Production users complained that the application is not showing completed data, it is appearing like below for them, please observe last word “Thanks”. In Dev environment it is working correctly, if anyone has faced similar issue or knows any steps to troubleshoot this it would be very helpful.I have already looked into online troubleshoot steps and everything looks fine as per it. 

My use case is that I want to kick users out of a form like the timer exceptions, but I want to do it based on the time after their latest activity - e.g if the user is actively filling out a longer form, I don’t want to kick them out, but if they linger on the form for 15 minutes without any updates, I want to kick them out.Timer exceptions on user input tasks seem to start when the user first enters the form, which would not work in my use case since there’s a chance that after 15 minutes, the user is still actively working on the form. What’s the best way to approach this? I can create a refresh always timer to track user activity on the interface, but once that timer is up, I am not sure how to forcibly remove them from the task, or write to task table to unlock the task from the backend.

I have added some fields to the user interface (UI) and marked those fields as required. The UI that includes these fields has been merged with another UI. This combined UI is then linked to another UI that contains a "save" button. In the "save" button, I have set the validation parameter to true. However, after clicking the save button, the validation for the required fields is not being displayed.

Hi all, Is there a way to add a horizontal scroll bar in an Interface? Instead of stacking my reports on top of each other, I'd like to have them arranged side by side with a possibility to scroll horizontally.Is it achievable?

I'm planning to create some reusable components in Appian. I've already built several, including reusable forms, page headers, message banners, empty state (no data) screens, date and currency formatting utilities, and a few others. Can anyone suggest additional reusable components, patterns, or expression rules that would be useful across most Appian applications?

Hey all! I'm sharing the Appian interface I recently built to give better visibility into the system's recent internal Login Audit files (instead of constantly downloading and opening CSV files) - particularly helpful if you're an O&M user and/or diagnosing login issues for any other reason. This interface relies on the Log Reader plug-in (and also uses the Date and Time Utilites plug-in for a certain transform on timestamps).  That said, I can't say how it'll perform on multi-server environments, since I don't have one to try it on. The entire interface is self-contained, with the sole exception of a custom rule I wrote that utilizes the internal "User" record to take an entered username and get the system's properly-cased username (since there is some inconsistent case sensitivity around usernames and there's no other way I could come up with to tell what the 'real' version is).  I'll include that expression rule co

We're experiencing an issue in the Appian Mobile App on iOS.When viewing a PDF document and tapping the Print icon, the app prints a screenshot of the current screen instead of the actual PDF document.Has anyone else experienced this?Is this a known issue with the Appian Mobile App on iOS? Is this expected behavior or a product defect? Are there any known workarounds or configuration changes to ensure the actual PDF is printed?​@stefanhelzle0001 

We're experiencing an issue with text rendering in the Appian Mobile app.EnvironmentAppian Mobile Android and iPhone Observed across multiple screensIssueAll text is displayed in bold, regardless of the font styling configured in the interface. This occurs on both Android and iPhone devices.For example:Labels, paragraph text, and other text components all appear bold. Read and unread messages in the Inbox look identical because both are rendered in bold, making it difficult for users to distinguish between them.QuestionsIs this a known limitation or issue with Appian Mobile? Has anyone experienced the same behavior on Android or iPhone? Are there any recommended workarounds or configuration changes to ensure normal font weight is displayed correctly?Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!​@stefanhelzle0001 

 Hi everyone,We're experiencing an issue with the pull-to-refresh gesture in the Appian Mobile app (IPhone & Android) and would like to know whether this is expected behavior or if there's a recommended solution.When performing the standard pull-to-refresh gesture (swiping down from the top of the screen):A refresh indicator appears. However, the screen content does not refresh or reload. The displayed data remains unchanged.     ​@stefanhelzle0001

Hello,When users download a document from our application in Appian Mobile, the downloaded filename does not match the original document name.Android: The downloaded file is saved with a gibberish/system-generated filename.Is this a known limitation or issue with Appian Mobile? Is there a supported way to control the filename used when downloading documents on Android ? Are there any recommended workarounds to ensure the original document name is preserved?   @stefanhelzle0001

Hi, I have a button on my application's homepage/landing page designed to execute a specific task in the database. When clicked, it should trigger the appearance of a dynamic interface. This interface should smoothly transition into view, causing the landing page interface to fade away. For visualization consider below screenshot, imagine the "Create Interface" dialog overlaying the landing page interface, which fades into the background during the task interaction.

Would it be possible to add an sparkle or AI icon to the icon set in a future release? thanks

In our application we are displaying customers list in editable grid based on status we have to highlight the row for example of status = matched then row should be green not matched it should be yellow how can i do please help as per my knowledge we cant give color in editable is there any way .

I am building POC using a grid plus component, i need help solving below two issues 1. when i try to add custom validations like preparerDueDate<RevieweDueDate it does not validate properly. Even if one row has the validation to true, the message shows on all row for that field. 2. I have a column that cannot be edited when once added, when creating a new record i need the column to be editable. how can i achieve this functionality? Thanks in Advance.

I am building POC using a grid plus component, i need help solving below two issues 1. when i try to add custom validations like preparerDueDate<RevieweDueDate it does not validate properly. Even if one row has the validation to true, the message shows on all row for that field. 2. I have a column that cannot be edited when once added, when creating a new record i need the column to be editable. how can i achieve this functionality? Thanks in Advance.

Hi  In Ui there was user picker field if i choose more than one (max selection is 3 ) and submit request after that in read only the selected users we are showing in summary dashboard there user want first name and last name to be displayed instead user name  Below is the logic i am using to display selected user details in text field a!textField( label: "Requested On Behalf:", labelPosition: "ADJACENT", value: a!forEach( items: a!defaultValue(ri!MDSRequest.requestedonBehalf, {}), expression: if( a!isNullOrEmpty(fv!item), {}, if( a!isNullOrEmpty(touser(fv!item)), {}, user(touser(fv!item), "firstName") & " " & user(touser(fv!item), "lastName") ) ) ), readOnly: true, showWhen: a!isNotNullOrEmpty(ri!MDSRequest.requestedonBehalf) ) } ), If i select two means more than one i am getting below error i selected valid users only still getting this error also before upgrade logic worked after version upgrade i am seeing this c

Whenever a user encounters any error in the UI, Appian shows pink box error. I do not want to show the Appian default pink box error, I want to show a custom error to the user which has no technical details. How can I achieve that in Appian?

Hi All,My actual requirement is when a user is uploading a file if incase the filename contains any special characters as @/& we need to replace it with  "_"  automatically without any user action and show it on the interface with the renamed filename. But when I was trying with parameter filenames of fileupload() function it wasn't working as expected. So I tried with hardcode a file name as "Sample" but still if I upload a document, it still shows the original file name its not getting updated to"Sample" so kindly help me with the requirement. I have attached the screenshot for reference.

I have a Rich Text Icon component that is used to download a PDF document. When the user clicks the download link, a background process is triggered using a!startProcess() to fetch the document based on a primary key. The process takes approximately 5–10 seconds to retrieve the document and return it to the interface. During this processing time, I would like to display a banner message above the icon, such as: "Your document is being fetched. Please wait until the download icon appears." I attempted to implement this using a local variable and a Dynamic Link. In the saveInto, I included both a!startProcess() and an a!save() to update a local flag variable that controls the banner visibility. However, I observed that the local variable is not updated immediately when the link is clicked. Instead, it gets updated only after the process started by a!startProcess() completes. Is there an alternative approach or recommended pattern in Appian to display a loading or processi