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Have questions or feedback on the Appian Dev MCP? This is a great place to ask them.  Appian’s Dev MCP plugin can be found on the Appian App Market here (https://appmarket.appian.com/listings/appian-dev-mcp), as well as a read-only version intended for production use or other environments where it’s important to avoid any design object changes (https://appmarket.appian.com/listings/appian-dev-mcp-read-only).  Documentation and installation guidance can be found here: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/latest/devmcp.htmlAnd finally, our public repo of skills to install alongside the MCP can be found here. We welcome contributions if you’ve developed a skill or skill update you think would benefit other users. https://github.com/appian/dev-mcp-skills

I am exploring different ways to make digital workflows more efficient, especially when a process involves both Appian and external online tools.Sometimes a workflow may involve collecting information, processing files or media, and then saving the results for later use. I have also been researching simple online tools such as SanpTikk.io for saving TikTok videos when offline access is needed.My question is about how others approach these external tools within Appian workflows.Do you usually connect external services through APIs, handle them outside Appian, or use another approach when there is no direct integration available?I would be interested in hearing how experienced Appian developers handle this kind of workflow while keeping the process simple and reliable.

Hi everyone,I've been exploring workflow automation and was curious how others approach repetitive business processes.I work in medical billing, where a typical workflow can involve insurance claims, follow-ups, documentation, spreadsheets, emails, and status updates. A lot of these tasks are repetitive, so I've been thinking about where automation could actually save the most time without making the process unnecessarily complicated.For those using Activepieces, what would you automate first in a workflow like this?For example, would you use it for: Sending notifications when a claim status changes Moving information between spreadsheets and other systems Creating follow-up tasks automatically Connecting forms or webhooks with internal tools Generating reports or summaries I'd also be interested in hearing which Activepieces integrations or features you have found most useful for business workflows.What automation has saved you the most manual work?Thanks for sharing your expe

I like the Designer Appian Dev Agent to double check my implementation ideas, but a minor annoyance is that for a given project it needs to reload every past conversation which can take a while. Maybe there are logs or cookies per project somewhere that can be removed?  If I select ‘New chat’, then leave and return, it loads all past conversations again.I feel like I might be missing something as we received 26.6 a few months ago and this was a new feature in that.

I have configured a start node that with a receive message trigger that essentially captured information from an email. I have configured all the proper fields but I the "Attachments" field does not seem to work. Documentation has not been particularly helpful in this case.  I have a PV of type Integer that can also handle multiples and the following is mapped to that PV: property(msg!properties, "Attachments", null) When I send an email to the process using its UUID, it captures all the fields correctly except for the attachments. Is my configuration incorrect?

Appian Family,  Here is my Interface -- JR_InterfaceName 1) File Upload field in an interface >> Define the Target Folder with all correct permissions. 2) Submit Button: "submit" set to true. I have 2 scenarios here 1) Just the interface by itself is just working fine when I upload the file and click submit. It gets save to the target folder. 2) When the same interface is either called from another interface as rule (rule!JR_InterfaceName) it doesn't work. The file is not saved to the target folder. I am pretty sure the document object is there but it's just not available to either save in a target folder or for anything else. What is it that I am missing? is it an Appian shortfall/Issue? I am assuming that this is very basic need for almost everyone. 3) Just to play around further I called a Process Model using "saveinto" property of the button passing some dummy variables and the Document Uploaded from the upload control, The PM got call

I am getting the below error while navigating to the Plan tab inside the application container. Any possible solutions or suggestions to fix it.This issue also not letting me to open the application from designer. The System Has Encountered an ErrorHTTP Code: 500 APNX-1-4198-000 Error Evaluating UI Expression Expression evaluation error [evaluation ID = e7f4a:bc82f] : Cannot invoke "com.appiancorp.core.expr.portable.Value.getType()" because "value" is null  

Hi , We are working with email data where the email body can contain around 46,000 characters. In Microsoft SQL Server, the complete email body is stored and displayed correctly within a single row.However, when we export the query results to a CSV file, some email bodies are getting split across multiple lines in the CSV output. This appears to happen only for certain emails containing large amounts of text, line breaks, or special formatting.Has anyone encountered a similar issue when exporting large text fields from SQL Server?Is this expected CSV behaviour due to embedded line breaks? Are there any recommended approaches to preserve the email body as a single field during export? Has anyone faced related challenges when importing such CSV data into Appian?Any insights or best practices would be appreciated.Thanks!

We have Appian on-premise and we have a requirement to create a page where external users can access it (users are not Appian Users) and Appian Portals are the best to achieve it. However, being On-premise, the portals are disabled and we are not able to enable the portals. Any suggestions or alternatives to achieve the requirement.

Hi All,I have a requirement like theuser can map multiple fleet types & cost for 1 equipment. we are displaying the picker field where the user will choose equipmentId from some master table, they can select 1 equipmentid at a time. then an editable grid will be displayed below, to add/modify fleet types & cost.Now the challenge is i am getting index issue during save, If there are any existing mapping for respective equipment id, then when user selects the same equipmentId from picker, then editable grid should display existing mappings and user can add new rows also. If not, then user can add new mappings. For existing mapping they can change the cost alone or JE type alone, which needs to refreshed. Also when they not change the cost type, then instead of adding new row in DB, update in existing row for other field like dollar amount,updated by,updated On If they removed existing cost type, then change is_Active = 0 for those rows in DB.Need like below screenshot, and i have

Hi,  We have a requirement to migrate approximately 18 million records from an external system into an Appian Cloud database.We are currently considering the following approaches: Export data from the source system and import it directly into the Appian Cloud database. However, we noticed there appears to be a file size limitation (around 2 MB per import file), which may make this approach challenging for such a large volume of data. Use an Appian Process Model with the "Import CSV to Database" Smart Service to load the data in batches. I would appreciate guidance from anyone who has handled a similar large-scale migration:Are there any practical limitations or performance considerations when using the Import CSV to Database Smart Service for very large datasets? Is there a recommended approach for handling data volumes of this size in Appian Cloud? What is the best way to implement logging and audit tracking so that we can monitor successful and failed records during the migration p

Hi,Do we have any plug-in or function or layout which shows a pop up on page load but original interface page components are blurred out in the back end. Once we click OK for the pop up,  it should the original components of that interfaceSomething similar to this- Thanks in advance,Keerthi Bussa

Hello!I have an “Execute Stored Procedure” node in my process model, which sometimes breaks/get cancelled (db timeout mostly). I have optimized the performance of the procedure. However, I was wondering if I could trigger an exception flow right when the node breaks and not after a specific time (because I cannot control how much it will take to break, it varies each time). I tried adding an Error Occurred variable, but it fills up as an output, so when the node gets cancelled, it still hasn’t taken a value.So is there a way to trigger a new flow right when the node gets cancelled?

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Hi,We are using a Start Event with a Receive Message trigger configured for Email messages.When an incoming email contains an attachment named Render_2026091902.pdf, Appian automatically creates and stores the document as Render.pdf in msg!properties.Attachments, completely stripping the underscore and the numeric string.Testing findings: Render_2026091902.pdf saved as Render.pdf (truncated). Render-2026091902.pdf saved as Render-2026091902.pdf (works fine). Since this happens during message ingestion at the Start Node trigger level (before process flow execution), is this a known issue or intended behavior related to document versioning suffixes?

Hi All,I’m seeing unexpected behavior with the Appian text() function when formatting a decimal value.For example:text("2.00000001", "0.0000000000")I would expect the output to be:2.0000000100 I’m getting:3.00000000000Has anyone encountered this behavior before?Is this related to how Appian is interpreting the first parameter as a number/decimal, or is there something specific about the text() format "0.0000000000" that I’m missing?Any explanation of why the value is being returned as 3.00000000000 would be appreciated.

Dear Appian Academy Support Team,I have completed the DocCenter for Partners module, and the course page shows it as 100% complete. However, when I go to my Learning Profile, the course still appears as 1 of 2 lessons completed (50%).I have attached screenshots showing both the completed module and the progress displayed in my profile.Could you please help me verify why the completion status is not updating and, if necessary, correct my progress?Thank you very much for your assistance.Best regards,Nestor Rafael Audante Ramos Dear Appian Academy Support Team,I have completed the DocCenter for Partners module, and the course page shows it as 100% complete. However, when I go to my Learning Profile, the course still appears as 1 of 2 lessons completed (50%).I have attached screenshots showing both the completed module and the progress displayed in my profile.Could you please help me verify why the completion status is not updating and, if necessary, correct my progress?Thank you very much

Hi Appian Community,I have a situation involving a process model and a process report.I have a process report that retrieves process variables from active process instances and displays the data.For example, suppose we have an existing process model with several process variables. In the future, we add new process variables and need to populate those variables for existing active process instances.My understanding is that we can use “Upgrade Process” to upgrade the existing active instances to the latest process model version. However, the newly added process variables remain null because the nodes that populate those variables were not executed in the original process instance.The challenge is that I cannot simply restart or manually trigger the new node because the process instance are more, and that node was not part of the execution path when the instance originally started we cannot use “Restart Node” smart service.My requirement is:Upgrade existing active process instances to the

I have a web API which expects post request and provides the response after completing few important nodes and other actions are configured Asynchronously . Asynchronous process involves copy document, send data to second external system which are wrapped as multiple subprocesses. Now let's say if any of these asych process fails and I notify the first external system along with process ID, is there a way possible to retrigger the appian broken instance again (ignore the failure reason)? if not can I restart from the broken node itself? does appian provide this capability? (Plugins: Get Processes By Node Status and process-management-services doesn't seem to be working as expected for my case)

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?

Hi Everyone,I am trying to embed an image in an HTML email template. My approach is to first convert the document to a Base64 string and then pass that Base64 value to the HTML templateHowever, the image is not rendering in the received email. The Base64 string is getting generated successfully, but the image is still not displayed. 

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