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Hello dear APPIAN community,  I am pretty new to this platform, so I'm still figuring out the capacity of APPIAN and its limitations. But there is something that I would like to confirm before I invest more effort. Is it possible to integrate SHAREPOINT SPACES just like SHAREPOINT? If not, what would I need to do to  have a 3d viewer that the user can click and interact with on a APPIAN based app. All on the web application platform (and not mobile) of course. I would really appreciate if anyone could give me an answer or at least some directions as to how would I be able to achieve this. Thanks in advance. 

I had an idea for how to make PM-generated Emails look on-brand, but I don't know if it's currently able to be implemented. Basically, storing the colors, logo, anything that can be defined with an Expression on the Site designer page in a database table.  Retrieve these branding attributes using an expression rule, and use them to display the Site appropriately. Also be able to access up-to-date branding using the same expression rule, which can be saved as a PV and thus influence an expression-based Send Email Smart Service. As I see it, storing Brand attributes in the database also allows for easy updates to a site's look, while making the transition seamless for any branded emails.  So my question is--can a site's properties/attributes be accessed using any native (or plugin) function?  I was also looking around to see if I can find the UUID of the site itself, but I can only seem to find the UUID for a Constant version of that Site.

I have an interface that has four dropdown components with dynamic choiceValues based on a query. When a value in the first dropdown is selected, it filters the values of the second dropdown. The second dropdown filters the third and the third dropdown filters the fourth. Each dropdown is disabled until a value is selected from each of the previous dropdowns. This works perfectly in the interface.  However, in the process model there is an option to "edit existing equipment" that will query a database and fill in fields in the interface, possibly including the four dropdown components mentioned above. When I test this process, I get an error that seems to be telling me that a query for one of the dropdowns in the interface is returning null when it shouldn't.  Hopefully this makes sense, please feel free to ask for clarification on anything. I have included the relevant code below. Thank you in advance for your help! Here is the query in the interface that gene

Anyone willing to offer a step-by-step guide on how to download and store Images within Appian Application for use on the UIs. I have developed this application using a!webImage, but I would like the images to be instead stored on the application server. I have not had luck checking the documentation on how to do that. Thank you in advance

what is the release date for the community edition?

Hi, Can anyone clarify on following questions with sample use cases, we have seen this in Appian pricing sheet. 1. What is an external input user? Ans: An External Input User are users external to the licensee organization have the ability to submit forms/requests to the app. 2. What is an infrequent user? Ans: An Infrequent User has up to four, 24-hour sessions per month. Thanks.

Hi i have a summary view where Im passing an interface with a parameter user type. That User type is being converted into Text through a process model. How do I pass that variable through the summary interface? Thanks

As per current set up, we can't send an email exceeding the text length of 1000. Is there any way to increase this length? We need to add a table in the email that contains records and the length goes beyond 1000 chars. Thanks, Pooja

When a query is performed the response is a dataset which contains a dictionary. The issue is that the dictionary does not have the proper type casting for the attributes (they are just any types). This means that anytime a comparison has to be done, or a wherecontains is used we must first convert the result of the dataset into a proper data type.  Side note, can we just make wherecontains perform basic type casting.

Can anyone explain why and(null)  is true

I would like to call one record with parameters from within a parent record list.Example: Assume that there are two record lists: one of all companies and of all products of these companies. Is it possible to create a link for each line of the company record list which beams me to the (same) record list of all products, just each time with a different active filter, so that you only see the products of the corresponding company?The only idea I have is to create something in the 1st record under "Views", which is then displayed when clicking a record element, namely an interface that contains a grid as one can give the record element to the interface as a parameter. Is there an easier than that? Somethin like a parameterised call to a record list?

is ther any google service that will use to do comparing the signatures tht comes from the digital documents 

Hi I am trying to filter the record type that should filter either phone or email are not blank AND effectivedatefuturechange = today(). The code below doesnt seem to work Code below: a!queryLogicalExpression( operator: "OR", filters: { a!queryFilter(field: 'recordType!{d3a01eaf-0c5f-4152-adeb-5b84d2b93c49}Address Change Participant Update Extract.fields.{929ea42f-0313-4410-8b8f-2049b30883bc}phonenumber', operator: "not null"), a!queryFilter(field: 'recordType!{d3a01eaf-0c5f-4152-adeb-5b84d2b93c49}Address Change Participant Update Extract.fields.{c8a513f8-9294-4156-9e62-a68d1204107f}emailaddress', operator: "not null"), } ) a!queryLogicalExpression( operator: "AND", filters: { a!queryFilter(field: 'recordType!{d3a01eaf-0c5f-4152-adeb-5b84d2b93c49}Address Change Participant Update Extract.fields.{f4749c47-5f0a-4b1b-ab9a-0cd2a6045e2b}effectivedateforfturechange', operator: "=", value: today()), } ) Any help is appreciated Thanks

We are using smart service Export SQL to Excel in Appian to generate Excel report. All columns are retrieved as expected but only date columns are transformed into Text fields and applied filters in Excel are Text not Date related. If columns are taken directly from database it works fine but presented formatting is Excel is "MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS" but our requirements are that all date fields have to be presented as "DD.MM.YYYY HH:MM:SS" . Using TO_CHAR or TO_TIMESTAMP functions didn't work again exported date columns are formatter as a text. Columns which are part from the CDT are Date and Time format as well. Do you have any idea how we can convert date fields to the mentioned format without losing date format after export to Excel? There is a similar topic but without any answers:  Appian Community. Thank you!

I want to make this Form. It is not allowed to move to the next steps unless the person fills in the required fields. But I can't activate the "required" feature, even though I added it in HTML. Therefore, I want you to help me and add or activate a required feature to Exact field in that form. But I don't want all the fields, I just want them when I put the word required. And when I add new fields, I want them to work as well. I also want to increase the width of the form to 90% of the total area, while also increasing the size of the progress bar.here is my full (HTML, CSS and JS):  https://jsfiddle.net/Maroz/s19q3gnf/3/

Hi,  I want to disable document link from read only grid if document is not exists or deleted from document folder.I am using following code to show and download document from read only grid. a!gridColumn( label: "File Name", value: a!linkField( links: a!documentDownloadLink( label: index(fv!row, "myFileName", {}), document: index(fv!row, "appianDocId", {}) ) ) ) Please Suggest me any solution for this.

Team, I am having a requirement to generate an excel document from data available as list of CDT (Storing data to DB not allowed). Need suggestions on this.

Hi ,     I am having a drop down with 4 choice values A,B,C,D. Based upon the value selected for Eg; D, a  section will appear below. My requirement is when the drop down value selected is D, then below section should be refreshed i.e. set the section fields to null if the drop down value selected is either D to A or A to D or B to D or C to D , then below section should be refreshed i.e. set the section fields to null. if the drop down value selected is either B to A or A to C or B to C, then below section should not be refreshed. so for this requirement i want to save the previous selected value of dropdown to compare with the latest selected value in order to do the refresh. please provide your suggestions or any other idea to do this requirement. Thanks in advance Pradeep.B

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, 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 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

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