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Hi,  I have an interface with a section layout which displays a read-only grid using a!gridField_19r1(). The data is fetched from a DB view using a query rule and displayed in the grid columns. My requirement is to conditionally display the data in one of the columns called Proposal Type. There is a boolean column named IsEarlyRenewal which stores true or false and for every entry in the view, I need to conditionally display if(IsEarlyRenewal = true, "Early Renewal', whatever the original value of the ProposalType column) . So, example:   id= 12345, IsEarlyRenewal = false, ProposalType = Modification -> ProposalType returned as Modification  id= 56789, IsEarlyRenewal = true, ProposalType=Modifiction => Proposal Type returned as Early Renewal Both the Proposal Type and IsEarlyRenewal  are columns in the view and can be fetched on the interface.  TIA!!

Hi everyone, is the Associate Developer Practice Test representative of the actual exam? Will passing this Test guarantee you passing the real exam, or are there other materials of tips needed to pass the actual exam? Thanks in advance.

Hi All, Is there any possibility to showcase the Record Type VIEWS in Vertical order? Currently the VIEWS are in Horizontal order. Thanks in Advance.

Hi,  We are planning to migrate Appian to cloud from on premise. Could I please get some pointers on what needs to be changed in the code, what's not available in cloud but is available on-prem, and other important details?  Thank you!

Hi! I have a question. Can I change the message error that appears in the section layout when some other component inside has an error? Bellow its an image of that error message. Thanks for your help!

Hi, We have requirement to send an escalation email notification to assignee's manager ( Organization AD) if user input task is not actioned within stipulated time. Can you pls suggest if this is possible in Appian to obtain someone's manager name dynamically ?

Hi all, We are having problems when a user enters special characters ($,<,> etc) in an interface. The data is stored in the DB and later on reloaded in the form incorrectly. I have checked in our Oracle DB that value for NLS_CHARACTERSET is WE8ISO8859P1 and the value for NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET is AL16UTF16 Does that mean that our DB is not configured to handle special characters? Should we ask our DBA to change the configuration in order to support the special characters? Alternatively, is there any way to solve the problem from the code? I have seen in similar questions that a clean or substitute function could help. I think the best option is to write a funcion with multiple substitutes to store < instead of "<" and so on. Thanks a lot!

Hi all,  we are at an early stage of a large migration project from a very heterogeneous system to Appian, we have still little informations and the question is how to approach the migration of process instances from the old system to the new one. Do you have experience in this regard? Assuming you have the data in db, is there a good way to generate the new instances? Or is there a convenient data format from which to generate instances (e.g. json)? I am also wondering if there is any connection with restoring processes during an Appian upgrade from Appian_OLD to the new version. Thanks in advance!

Hi Team, Getting an error while restarting the engine server. It says  'execution01 K engine process not running on port 5029 yet' Any help is appreciated.  Thanks, Anandita

Hey All, It seems like a common way to cast a value to the type "List of Dictionary" is via: cast(194, local!thingBeingCast) Does anyone know of a way to do this without hardcoding the "194" value? This approach doesn't seem very explicit (I personally have to remind myself of what it's doing in a blank rule whenever I see it), and god-forbid that type id changes one day and needs to be changed one-by-one throughout the codebase. Thanks!

Hi, Currently when user logs in in Appian with "Remember Me" unchecked, the user will be automatically logged out of Appian after a particular threshhold in case its inactive, however this is not the case when "Remeber Me" is ticked/checked. Is there any way in Appian to customize (Remove) "Remember Me" option while logging in for  a particular process ? The process contains PII and its not safe to keep the user logged in for long time when in inactive state.

Hello,  I have a use case where end users must be able to define "functions" that will be applied to values defined in the application.  I was wondering if it was possible for the end users to write an Appian function with SAIL format in a paragraphField and then "translate" the generated text into an actual function ? Is it possible maybe thanks to Appian Java API ?  Thank you in advance, Claire

Hi all, I need your assistance to solving the situation which is important for my project. I need to modify the logfiles which I know generated automatically. I just need to add some field in the perflog/web_api_details.csv file. How shall I do this?  Is there a way to manipulate log4jconfig.xml in Appian cloud environment to capture additional information in perflog/web_api_details .csv file. Please suggest. Thanks in Advance.

My use case is i need to create editable grid for 100 columns from one table.While building interface type of data is fixed it could be TextIntegerDrodpownDateI need to use foreach to loop component to store data but all columns are not mandatory to store data.How do i save data? because after .(dot) i need to pass column name.

Team, Anyone have done below? We have application UUID and using that we need knowledge centers -- using KC we need to get folders inside it.

Can we pull news feeds comments from db? I do not have access to the table tp_feed_entry, is it the right table to look at ? Is their any other way to pull those?

Hi, I have the following situation: - one interface that is embedded inside the other larger interface - first interface has non submit button that starts process upon click - first interface has 4 rule inputs that are used as parameters for starting the process - these 4 rule inputs are calculated also on the button click, just before sending them to process as parameters Behavior on test: - if I test this interface "manually" from designer, process is successfully started and all the parameters are passed to the process - if I test this interface through the process which contains its "parent" interface, parameters are not forwarded So, this code for the first interface doesn't work: a!localVariables( ... a!buttonLayout( primaryButtons: { a!buttonWidget( label: "Start process", saveInto: { a!save( ri!firstProc_cdt, rule!DLS_mapFirstProcParam(

Hi , I am facing validation issue after applying filter from dropdown. Its coming because at validation rule I am  using ri!teamDataTrs which is getting reset on basis of filter criteria. But without filter validation is working fine as this ri!teamDataTrs having full dataset. Kindly share any work around to fix this issue. test

Is it normal for taskid to change multiple time during a short process model?  I have a process that has  a UI node, followed by an XOR and an email node. I took samples of the TP!id at the start middle and finish and found it changed a whole 3 times for a simple accepting of the task to the end of the process. 

Hi - Is there any easy way to compare Appian DB Table schemas from different environments just like other Appian Objects we do Compare and Deploy? Some of the tables have custom properties which we updated from Backed through SQL scripts and was not possible from CDT. Before deploying I want to find out difference between two environments so that i can prepare script to deploy the changes. Thanks. 

I have a table that is connected to sub tables. Through an interface I want the user to select the record and I can update it.I want to know how I can configure a button that updates directly in the database and how to connect it to a process model. This is the interface and we have a button that takes us directly to the registry to update it.  This is the interface to update I already have the buttons, but I want to know how to configure them so that it is updated in the database.

Please can someone have a look and tell me  what I am doing wrong here ?

Hi All, We have a requirement to display the audit log of task reassignment to other teams in the Task list . Any ways to find out the audit histories of task reassignment .  Does appian provides this feature in 20.4? 

Hi, I have created an Expression Rule that returns 3 values (for example). a!localvariable( ..., { value1: local!myValue1, value2: local!myValue2, value3: local!myValue3 } ) When I call my ER inside an Interface, I do not have any problem to get the 3 data (ex : rule!myRule().value1). But how would you do it inside a Script Task from a Process model ? because when I call my ER I can only set the result into a single Target. Maybe is there any way to do it with a Map, or any other solution ? (obviously I could use a CDT but it would be used only for this case in the whole application, so maybe it might be a good pratice to not create this CDT just for a single using. Or maybe, the good practice would be to use imperatively a CDT ? ;-)  ) Regards    

I would like to automatically regression-test an Appian App. The idea is to populate a dynamic, nested, conditional Appian UI with minimal to no changes on Appian side. Test cases have to be defined in AzureDevOps and using Selenium is considered an option. So far, I see two alternatives: I could image to define a REST-API for the corresponding form, if that is straight forward. By straight forward I mean that only a few lines of configuration on Appian side are allowed. The challenge is the current architecture of the interface with submit-buttons on a parent form and data to be entered in an interface nested inside the parent UI via rule-input. We tried to use Selenium (without any changes on Appian side), but the trouble is to identify the buttons or to populated the pull-down menus etc. since all elements have names which change between deployments of environments, as far as I can tell. Is there a way to inject an additional, constant, user-defined CSS-property to each an every el