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Hi Team, We have a dashboard where we display Test Cases in a read-only grid. The grid is built using the recordData() function, and we have enabled the “Export to Excel” option provided out-of-the-box. Users are able to click this option and successfully download the Excel file. As part of our document cleanup process, we are deleting Excel documents generated within the application. Currently, we are able to identify and delete documents that are created via our custom export functionality. However, we have a question regarding the Excel files generated through the Record Type’s inbuilt “Export to Excel” feature: Are these exported Excel files stored anywhere in Appian (e.g., in Appian Documents or temporary storage)? If yes, is there a way to identify and delete them as part of our cleanup process? Or are these files generated on-the-fly and not persisted in Appian? Any clarification or guidance on how Appian handles these export files would be very

Example -  Validation: Filename cannot contain special characters (for example, / \ ; : " | ? ' < > * ).  Expression evaluation error: Syntax error. Details: Expression evaluation error : Invalid character found in expression: | 

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 Team, We have a requirement of querying all processes with an error in our application and send recurring reminder emails to fix that problem (every 5 minutes). Process Report seems to not have such feature. Can anyone please guide on a potential solution here? Thanks!

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

Hi Team, I would like to know if there any such control like below in Appian. Any suggestions please.

I am showing  few fields from the DSE in a grid and i set a advanced search to filter from the result shown in the grid , now after i set the filter i have to click on the export to excel and it should generate the excel document . the export should have only the fields that i show in the grid and not all the DSE, i have the filtered result to pass , but the function we have support only to export from DSE and not the custom. i tried with PM . but it get stored in Appian folder which does not suffice . can any one suggest how we can export the custom grid with the filtered list as export to excel or csv . Thanks  

Hi everyone, I’m facing an issue with transferring my Appian certifications, Academy Online achievements, and badges from my current organization account to my personal account. I have already reached out to multiple teams, including Appian Technical Support, Appian Community, Academy Online support, and the Certifications team. I was informed that the request would be resolved within two working days. However, it has been longer than that, and I have not received any proper response or update despite multiple follow-ups. Has anyone faced a similar issue before? If so, could you please guide me on how to get this resolved or whom to contact for faster support? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

Has anyone worked with Microsoft Publisher (.PUB) files in Appian? Our requirement is to allow users to upload .pub files and extract specific data from them for further processing. AI Capabilities are not enabled.Is there any Appian-native approach, plugin or integration that supports reading/extracting content from .pub files? or is conversion to another format (ex PDF) generally required before processing.

I have a record that stores text with HTML formatting from a Styled Text Editor Field. In one of my interfaces I pull that text from the record and display it with a rich text display field. Is there a way for me to put the text in such that it keeps the styling? I've been using stripHTML() on the text but that just removes everything which is not what I need.

Hi All, I want to compare the record type and a map that have similar data  , I want to compare if it is same then create a list of that fields name. Thanks

In an Appian grid with data, I want to freeze the first two columns and enable horizontal scrolling for the rest of the columns. please someone help onthis.

I need to pass the filter value in my process model but as i am using record filter not the custom filter and hence i am not able to record or see that record filter values. Can anyone suggest some way to pass that record filter value from my interface to process model.

Hi all,  any idea how can I unarchive process instance based on a specific date and time? Tried the following and it works: archiveprocess.sh unarchive -pmuuid 0002de8e-39d3-8000-80a4-014d98014d98 -pstarted "20220616*" However, when I try to add in DDHHmmss, it will not work.  Example:  archiveprocess.sh unarchive -pmuuid 0002de8e-39d3-8000-80a4-014d98014d98 -pstarted "202206160023*" thank you!

Hi All, I have a process which uses "Export SQL to Excel" Smart Service and fetches data from the db and creates a excel sheet. When using this - generate report, we are creating a select query - SELECT ID AS Number AND LABLE AS 'Label Name' FROM ABC_TEST table (multiple tables with joins to create almost 172 columns), and the plug-in smart service uses these alias names and creates header into the template excel that is - in excel you can see 1st column ('Number') & 2nd column('Label Name') as But after Appian upgrade 25.3, this alias is stopped and it is now taking direct table column names that is - ID & LABEL in excel header. Anyone has seen this issue and have any work around, please help/suggest. Thanks in advance.Note - this is user requirement where excel download report has almost 172 columns data which is used for further reporting. It was working very great before this upgrade but after upgrade it is just working with column header a

Hello Everyone, I am facing an issue with the Event History List (a!eventHistoryListField). I am not able to mention/tag users (using @, for example @ABC) while adding top-level comments. Has anyone used this feature successfully with eventHistoryListField? Any inputs or suggestions would be really helpful. Thanks in advance! Regards,

Hi Team, I came across an unexpected situation in Appian and would like to understand the possible root cause behind it. While reviewing the system logs, I noticed that a few interface objects were deleted at timestamp 2026-05-29 04:44:18. The logs show the deletion action under my username. However, during that time: I was attending a team call, my screen was being shared, and I was working on exporting/deleting objects only within a different application. The surprising part is that interfaces from another application were also deleted, even though I did not manually access or delete them. I have a few questions regarding this behavior: Are Appian system logs stored in GMT/UTC timezone by default? If yes, then 04:44 GMT converts to approximately 10:14 AM IST, which matches the time I was on the call. Can Compare & Deploy, package export/import, or dependency cleanup operations indirectly delete shared objects from another application? Is it possible for Appian to log deleti

Updating the file name in fileuploadfield() using parameter documentActions: "EDIT_NAME", unable to fetch new updated name in either local variable or fv!files.name and validation is failing. a!fileUploadField( label: "Documents", documentActions: "EDIT_NAME", labelPosition: "ABOVE", value: local!uploadedDocuments, saveInto: { local!uploadedDocuments }, validations: { a!localVariables( local!currentUploadNames: touniformstring(fv!files.name), local!existingDocNames:local!existingDocs, local!hasDuplicates: length(intersection(local!currentUploadNames, local!existingDocNames)) > 0, local!hascurrentDuplicates: length(local!currentUploadNames) <> length(union(local!currentUploadNames, local!currentUploadNames)), if( or( local!hasDuplicates,local!hascurrentDuplicates), "Duplicate files detected in your selection. Please ensure all uploaded files have unique names.", null )) }, maxSelections: 10, helpTooltip: "Supported fi

Appian 25.3 I'm using a!queryRecords(.....).data to get an array of records from my record type in a process model.  Next, I setup a loop and need to index each record in the array.  However, this syntax does not work within the process model: pv!myRecords[pv!recordIndex] I receive this error:  An error occurred while evaluating expression: myRec:pv!myRecords[pv!recordIndex] (Expression evaluation error: PE My RecType must be indexed by its corresponding record type fields or relationships) (Data Outputs) This exact, same syntax works if I move it into an expression rule and call that from the process model. The process variable is of the exact same type as the rule input on the expression rule (i.e. array of my record type).  Yet, I cannot index the array directly in a script task in the process model Is there something I'm doing wrong here? Thank you.

The organization I'm working with recently had their Appian environments upgraded to 26.3 and it appears that the documented method for passing formatted text to the MS Word template using the MS 2007 Word Doc from Template smart service no longer works. Before the upgrade, when passing text to the template via the smart service, all newlines (char(10)) were replaced with the Word ML tag <w:br />, which would allow the formatting in the replacement text to be preserved. However since the upgrade, the formatting is lost and the <w:br /> tag is visible in the generated document. Using other formatting characters like <br/> or char(10), char(13) doesn't seem to fix this, how to we proceed from here?

Hi I wanted to audit my users in the system - with below attributes wanted to export data - I see there is a global user record where some of data is available but not all the parameters specifically type of user, created and created by - please help with this. Name, Username, Active or not, Supervisor or not, Supervisor name, created date, created by, type of user basic vs admin user