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Hello team, I have a parent process model from which I am triggering child process instances asynchronously using MNI. The child process instances have been successfully triggered and have reached the end node. However, the parent process instance is still showing as Active in the Monitor tab since yesterday. Additionally, when I view the process instance and hover over each node, the Start Process node appears disabled, whereas the End Event node appears enabled. Could you please help me understand why the parent process instance is still in an active state despite the process reaching the end node? As I am triggering child instances through MNI, my understanding is that if I use a Terminate End Event in the parent process, it will also terminate the child process instances. Therefore, I do not think that approach will work for my scenario. Please correct me if my understanding is incorrect.

The code working from long back suddenly one day the integration failed due to service failure how to handle it 

Hi All, Our users have been experiencing this intermittent issue quite frequently. The problem occurs randomly while users are actively working on a task or viewing a summary screen, and there doesn't appear to be any consistent pattern or specific steps to reproduce it. As this is occurring in the production environment and we do not have direct access, we have been unable to capture a network HAR file for further analysis and not able to reproduce in lower environments. Has anyone encountered a similar issue before? Could this be related to the browser (we are using Microsoft Edge), a network-related problem, or something else? Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Are there any limitations for a!fileupload() component in Appian,I've tried uploading a zip folder using this, but I am getting the following error : Could not upload file "abc.zip". Reason: Files without extensions are not permitted on this system.but the file is of .zip extension, I have checked in admin console as well , and zip is enabled in admin console.

difference between vertical and horizontal swim lanes. when to use the different swim lanes

I have a text "....<a></a><Line....." from which I need to remove the characters <a></a>.  How can I achieve this?

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

hi All! I completed the ACD101: Appian Certified Associate Developer exam on 05/16/2026. The exam status in the ProctorU portal shows “Fulfilled” ,”but my certification/result is still not visible in my Appian account and not get any score report. Also, the exam auto-submitted before I manually clicked the final submit button and I got no email for my score or any pop up to show my score while auto submitted. I already contacted certifications@appian.com and support@appian.com but have not received a response yet since saturday. Has anyone faced a similar issue before? How long does it usually take for the certification/result to appear?or what step i need to take next? Thank you.

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 .

These days I have seen developers moving to using database tasks rather than a traditional User Input Task approach. What are the possible advantages of using DB tasks in terms of reducing memory footprint, creating short lived processes, performance, concurrency and auditing? Any way whether a process task report or using DB task, we'll be creating tasks to save task IDs, then how it is different and advantageous in comparison to process task report approach?

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  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  

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.