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I have a client request to look into the capabilities of converting Rich Text Format (RTF) into HTML. This is not regular rich text encoding, it's the older version of it. A sample might look something such as this  "{\rtf1\ansi\deff0 {\fonttbl {\f0 Times New Roman;}} \f0\fs24 Hello, world!}" I cannot seem to find any information on interactions between Appian and RTF. All of my searches return information relating to Appian's new rich text editor components. Is this something that simply does not exist? Was RTF deemed "too old" for Appian to work with it? Any information on the topic would be a huge help, even if it's just confirmation that there is nothing that currently handles RTF within Appian.

Hi Team, Whether we have any documentation on the difference between all the authentication types as mentioned in the subject of this post. Because, when I have gone through Appian documentation not able to get the difference clearly. Kindly guide me.

HI All, I have a requirement, where we need to generate the Dynamic Word Template. we are using "DOCX from Dynamic Template." How to add signature & check boxes in the word template dynamically Signatures: Lets say I have an Employee editable grid, whenever we add an employee, signature will be provided by employee, how we can show those signatures in the Word Template.  In the Employee form we have a checkbox field how we can represent that in Word Template.  

Hi All, There is a requirement to have a RTE component where it is working properly in the interface, But when I open that from the site. RTE Component is refreshing with the key press with the below code. Can someone suggest a way why it is refreshing with key press in the RTE component? a!localVariables( local!data: a!refreshVariable( value: a!forEach( items: ri!Data, expression: if( search("<html>",fv!item,1)=0, null, fv!item) ), refreshOnReferencedVarChange: false() ), local!emailData: a!refreshVariable( value: reject(fn!isnull(_),index(ri!qmcData,wherecontains(null,local!data),{})), refreshOnReferencedVarChange: false() ), local!linksData: a!refreshVariable( value:tostring(reject(fn!isnull(_),local!data) ), refreshOnReferencedVarChange: false() ), { richTextEditorField( label: "Query Management Links", richTextValue:local!linksData, richTextSaveInto: { local!linksData, a!save(ri!Data,append(local!emailData,local!linksData)), a!save( ri!segment, a!for

Hi Appian Gurus, I recently came across a code like this :  I noticed that using the If() function with more than three parameters works like a nested If condition. However, I couldn’t find any documentation about this behavior in Appian’s official documentation. Is it acceptable to use the If function in this way?

Hi, We have provided a read-only grid for users. The users are applying some random filters and viewing summary view of one request. When they come back the filters which they have applied are gone and they have to apply filters again.  I know you guys will suggest that we can save filters and access them. But it doesn't work because they have lot of combinations and saving those many combinations is not a good idea. To avoid losing of applied filters, we opened the summary view in new tab. But some users are getting confused to go back to grid. Is there a way in Appian to provide a link/button in the summary page to close the tab? or Is there a way to keep the filters applied when user going back to the grid from summary view?

Hi All, I found placeholder in picker component defined as "Text to display in the field when it is empty. Does not show if the field is read only."  Ref: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/25.2/Custom_Picker_Component.html However dropdown component it is "Text to display when nothing is selected and the value is null." Ref: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/25.2/Dropdown_Component.html So when the picker field been disabled or in readonly, it will show blank, how ever in the same page, disabled dropdown field can show the placeholder words.  Is there a way we can show the placeholder in disabled placeholder words in picker field or anyone knows why dropdown allows to show placeholder when its readonly.

Hi Everyone,I'm working with two lists in Appian and need to find the exact indices of elements from one list (local!checkList2) in another list (local!sourceList2) without sorting the data. For example, if local!sourceList2 is {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 6, 3, 2, 7, 2} and local!checkList2 is {1, 2}, I want to get the indices where these values appear in local!sourceList2 in the original order. I've tried using wherecontains, but it sorts the data, which I don't want.  a!localVariables( local!sourceList: {3, 4, 5, 3, 7, 4, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 9, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, 5, 4, 2, 5, 6, 3, 4, 4, 7, 3, 4, 6, 4, 4, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 5, 6, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3, 7, 4, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 9, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, 5, 4, 2, 5, 6, 3, 4, 4,

Hello, We have a requirement of capturing the bounced emails which are sent from appian cloud. Can anyone suggest if there is a way of capturing those bounced emails in Appian? 

I want to design the application for Employee onboarding which consisted of HR, Admin, IT and EMployee So I need to make links from one interface to another, please guide me on this

Hi, KIndly help me how to get keys from dynamically listed dictionary, this could be of any type means list of variant, list dictionary, list map, map, dictionary, when getting result, it is type of dictionary, when checking its type it is showing of any type.  Below is the code which is not working. a!localVariables( local!data: { id: 1, name: { firstname: "shree", lastname: "tiwari" } }, local!name: property(local!data, "name", null()), local!keys: a!keys(local!name), local!keys /*{*/ /*typename(*/ /*typeof(property(local!data, "id", null()))*/ /*),*/ /*typename(*/ /*typeof(property(local!data, "name", null()))*/ /*),*/ /*property(local!data, "id", null()),*/ /*property(local!data, "name", null()),*/ /*local!keys*/ /*}*/ ) Commented code to check type of above local!name variable. added screenshot of response for reference.  Kindly suggest how to do this in appian. Thanks in advance, Shree Krish

I'm working on a use case for comment functionality, and I'm considering whether to use Appian’s built-in Event History List or to build a custom record type to store and manage comments. The Event History List is convenient, especially with @mention support and auto-timestamps, but I'm curious if there are any reasons to prefer a self-made comment record type. Are there any performance, scalability, or user experience considerations you’ve encountered in either direction? Would love to hear best practices or examples from others who’ve navigated this tradeoff!

I have a read only grid with a record type as source, I have three columns that has dynamic values. Meaning, I am using 4 or 5 record fields and get average these are custom fields. value: recordType!field1+recordType!field3+recordType!field3 / 3          --Its a numeric field lets say field name is "Avg value" then I have one drop down that suppose to filter the values in readonly grid based on slection. If I select the value ">1" from drop down readonly grid should filtered and show only records have "Avg value" column >=1 I am not able to use queryFilter as I don't have appropriate value for "Field"

Hello All ,  we have a database view , using that we created a record ( disable data sync) as Appian record is not allowing view with enable sync option.  facing performance issues with this Appian record picker, please can someone help with the following questions :  Question 1 : how can we implement a minimum character requirement for the search input in the record picker (pickerFieldRecords) to reduce the number of database queries ? Question 2 : how can we limit the initial load to a smaller subset (i.e. only load 20 result based on user filter) of records to prevent performance bottlenecks ? Question 3 : is there a way to implement Appian caches record data in memory with disabled data sync record  type ? Thanks!

How to click on the above Menu Layout Button? using the Appian Selenium 

Is it possible to generate a unique URL to open a process in Appian? I would like to be able to start an Appian process instance using an API from another system, and open that process from a screen like "Appian process list" on the other system.A process has multiple User Input Tasks and also enters sub-processes, but I would like to be able to open the process from the "Appian Process List" no matter what state it is in.Is it possible to generate and return a unique URL for opening a process, regardless of the task, when a process instance is launched? How should I implement this?I've recently started learning Appian.Please forgive me for asking a beginner's question. Thanks in Advance.

Hi All, i want to know , how to configure the below logic BY default all the option should be selected. and also in dropdown i can have the option to deselect all /select all along with all the options. Please help me how i can go about this

Hello, I am trying to capture the attachments sent by email when starting a process by email is configured. I have tried to store in a variable (multiple) of type document the following data but the variable remains null: - fn!property(msg!properties,"attachment",null()) - fn!property(msg!properties,"Attachments",null()) And I also tried just msg!properties.Attachments but I get this error by email:

Hello Everyone, What is Appian Composer where can we  find that?If there documentation please do share 

Hi everyone, I’m working on a task where the expected output involves a grid that allows multiple selections. The user can select three checkboxes and then click a button. Upon clicking, a small popup should appear asking for a meeting name corresponding to the selected three IDs. I tried implementing this using a related action, but it only works for single row selection. It doesn’t support multiple row selection. I also tried using a startProcess link, but it opens a large popup. Since we’re only filling in a single text field (the meeting name), it doesn’t look good occupying the entire screen. Is there any way to achieve this more effectively? Thanks in advance!

I have a scenario to create an excel file with 3 sheets. I have used the export data store entity to excel smart service in the model back-to-back (3 times). I gave the folder to the first node, configure the output document of first node and provided the document to update field in second and third nodes respectively in order to update the same sheet. The process executes and returns the excel document that i expected. But in the history, after the execution of first node, i have one document id generated and after the execution of last excel node, another new document id is generated. At the end of the process, i write the documentId in a table. In the mentioned folder i can see only one document which is the first one. Please let me know what should i need to do? Thanks In Advance,Vishnuvarthan.

Old requirement: User used to enter multiple email addresses separated with a comma and that combined value was sent from Appian to API for sending emails. Here the highlighted rule input was saved as Text type in Interface. Now the requirement from API end has been changed and they have updated the Email addresses variable to list of items. In order to handle this I have updated the Rule input to store multiple values I tried to use a!foreach() in the saveinto parameter of  a!textField() but Interface is not recognizing the multiple values as list of items. Can i please get some suggestions on how to handle this?

Hello , i am trying to build a PM that sends mails to users(81 in total), i put delay between the emails 25 seconds , but after some repetitions (33,42,72) random each time PM stops with the error : Failed to send emailIs there a limit of email that a sigle PM can send ? or something

Hi Everyone, i am trying to display numbers from 105 but the output should be : {105,110,115,120,,125,130,135,140,145,150,151,152,153,154,155,156,157,158,159,160,165,170,175,180,185,190,195,200}, i have tried but after 105 iam getting 115,Here sharing my code  a!localVariables( local!data: 101 + enumerate(100), index( local!data, where(like(touniformstring(local!data), "*5*")) )) Thank You In Advance

Dear exports, I have used Export Data Store Entity to Excel Smart Service in process model. 1. Configured Data Store Entity is the DB View, there are 8000+ records in this view. 2. I didn't apply any filters. 3. When run process, there is no process error or any error in system log, process instance run successfully. However, I only export out 5000+ records in excel, which is not expected, suppose should be all records in DB ( 8000+ ), what's the possible problem? how can I fix it? PS: I have double check missed records, those are not duplicated records in the view. And I have done a POC, if change the DSE to point to any table, no this data missing issue in exported excel, but if change to views, some have data missing issue, some no, I have no idea that why those data will be missed.