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Hi All, Is it possible to make a variable static in appian just like java. So that it retains its value.

Hi Experts, Can someone explain me in-depth concept of a group type. What are the specific use cases where we have to go with creating Specific group type. Till now I have used only custom group types and groups at technical and business level. Thanks in Advance, Gaurav Singh

Is there anyone else that is completely new to the coding world without prior coding knowledge. I am considering doing a Full Stack boot camp to help me. I am not sure if that is the right path.   How long did it take you to grasp Appian and past the associate developer certificate? Have you been able to secure employment with completing the certificate through this site? 

As we all know , we don't have security for CDT unlike other appian objects. But I have a use case where I have to restrict the access to CDT , I just need viewer access and should  not be able to download or create new versions. Use case :  we created a separate group called Application Support admin . This group is basically to have a viewer access to application and to all process model This group is to monitor process instances in prod to debug any issue . To achieve this , we went with the below approach 1)Basic user with designer access 2)Create application specific group and provided viewer access to Application 3)We set the process model security to this group as viewer access with  this user belong to this group able to process models with only viewer access (cant start or stop process or create any new process model) and able to see all process instances (with viewer access - cant edit process also) But we see a risk here that, with this role - user is able

I have configured the Custom Sender while sending the Email. Everything is working fine. I am able to receive the Mail also but The sender Display name is getting Repeated.. Can someone help. Thanks

I am using an XML to render a report. Each row should display a single amount per case; for example: row 1 .--->  validation number   caseid   payee name  check amount     check no row 2 .--->        13331                   1234       john_name             120                   blank row 3 .--->        13332                   1234       john_name             240               &n

I have added two new columns to the CDT, When I am deploying these changes to production.are these two new fields mapped to the existing instances or not ?   Pls explain with one simple example.  Thanks in Advance!

Hi All,  As the application name and its prefix has been changed after the half way across the development, we are now in need to change the existing appian objects to the new prefix. While doing so, I'm trying to change the CDT, Data Store etc.. ( AFAIK  while is the most tedious task) but getting the below error : is there any best practices for changing the prefix for CDT , DB tables , Data store , records etc ? Can someone please elucidate ?  Error snap shot :  XSD File EM_table2XSD – < 1 KB The name and namespace of the new version of the data type must be the same as the current data type's name and namespace. Received namespace: urn:com:appian:types:EM, name: EM_table2

I have an expression that takes in a dse and spits out the column names of everything in that dse. Unfortunately, the way it does this is by querying the dse and then running a!keys() on the first entry of the result to figure that all out. While this works perfectly well when the dse has values in it, it will error out if the table is empty. So is there any way to get the same information directly from a DSE that doesn't have data in it? 

An often occuring frustration when testing out an interface is that it will work fine within the interface editor, but once we throw it on a site, something goes wrong. That wouldn't be too big a deal as it's all part of development, but whenever we test interfaces on a site, there is no way to see what values the variables are getting for diagnostic purposes. We can hide/show the components on the site, but is there some way for developers to also see variable values? 

HI All, I am using a!fileUploadField for uploads file, which has validated to allow only "PDF" file,  Our ask is, if uploaded file extension is not PDF, shall remove immediately, how i can do that? Note:- file upload feature i have given on a grid column and it's single select.

Hello, We are using MS Graph Email Poller for our project, and we upgraded to the latest version 3.1.0. Based on the documentation we followed all the instruction but we are getting as ErrorMessage: "Error executing the request" nothing else, could you share any insight what can cause this? Thanks Suhas

Hi, Which  inbuild appian method should i used for clicking a button which is having tag <Strong>?

Hi, There is a button called 'Create' in our application. i am trying to click on that button using 'clickOnButton(Button Name)' ,it's not even clicking that button and getting failed. but it's having button tag

I set in the User Task the ReAssignment privileges to "No privilege" because I don't want that a user can reassign a task if another assigned the same to himself. But the "Reassign" button keeps staying when I open the task. Any advice?

I'm trying to generate a PDF Document based on data collected in an interface, including some charts that Appian generates based on some of that information. However, I can't figure out how to get the charts into the PDF. I tried using the "Generate Chart Image" Plug-in but it completely changed the formatting of the chart and doesn't look nearly as good. Does any one know of a way to get the charts into a PDF document (or other kind of document that could be converted to a pdf) while keeping the same formatting? Thanks in advance.

Hi All, I need to get the list of deleted process instances. Please help me how can I get it?

I am planning to do a POC on Test Automation using Appian Selenium on any application built on Appian platform. Could someone please help me out on how to setup and configure Test Automation using Appian Selenium API? On pre requisites like what all software need to be installed A sample Application built on Appian platform that can be used as AUT General configuration and setup

Hi Team, I need to set the timer which shall run at 4.55 am every day and get data from view which has range query 5am last day to 5am current day when the job ran, but it is not getting the data even though all timer are set right in PM and in range query of DB. The process gets executed at 4.55 am but it does not get data , but when we check view manually it gets the data. So at what time zone this PM is running? And what time zone DB is running? is it GMT I am little bit confuse that shall I un-check this box "Override with Initiator's Time Zone"  as it is by default checked. Regards Bihitak

Message driven beans can use aliases for routing the email messages received. You can create aliases for process models UUIDs, process model IDs, processes, or events. Configuring an email alias is recommended when handling legacy email addresses. To add a routing alias: Open (or create) <APPIAN_HOME>/conf/custom.properties. Add a custom alias definition using the following pattern. conf.mailhandler.alias.= For example, with an email alias of HelpDeskRequest@mydomain.topdomain, define a process model start event target using a UUID with the following parameters. 1 conf.mailhandler.alias.HelpDeskRequest=processmodeluuid0004cedf-a045-8000-234b-c0a8031014c0 What does alias means here??

I am looking for presentation ppt or pdf file to present Appian to my management team. It should cover What is Appian and how it will benifit the project if we will use Appian. I am not fidning any presentation in this direction.Please share with me if anybody have any Appian related presentation available.

Hi Team, I want a text to be bold and underline and also apply a!safelink to some page in the UI. Can anyone please help as when I try to use a!richTextDisplayField in the label of a!linkField , I am getting some encrypted value as both of them are not working together. Regards Bihitak 

Hello, I'm trying to create a gridLayout component whose components can be hierarchically selected (this means, clicking on a specific row will also select all its subrows, and their respective subrows, all the way til the last hierarchy level).  The thing is, I've assigned an unique id to each row from which I can know its parent rows, but in order to build this selection system, I should be able to loop over all row ids so I know if they have specific parent rows. Hence, my problem is getting all row ids. Is there any way to do it?

What would be the best way to conclude which of the two values ( text type ) is higher ?  touniformstring(1500000)<touniformstring(14285714) : this is returning as false . ( O/P should be True for mathematically to be correct ) touniformstring(1245) < touniformstring(2234) : This is returning as true as expected .  Is there any other idea to compare two text type value's to find out which is higher ?  P.S : The value is of text type . Changing the value to a number or decimal is out of scope .