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I want to get the diff text between expression rule to integration some automation flow. Do Appian exposed any API to support such? Or is there any API could get object source by version?

Based on DR Strategy 3, documented here: https://community.appian.com/success/w/guide/3329/high-availability-and-disaster-recovery-configurations#disaster_recovery, it sounds like it's possible for an HA environment to loose nodes and continue functioning, with some potential updates to configurations.  Has anyone tested this process? If you have 3 engine/data servers, if 1 node goes does, can 2 continue functioning? Likewise, if 2 nodes go down, can 1 function alone? What about search and app servers?

Hi folks, can we configure another URL masking for a particular site in an environment?current URL: www.abc.appiancloud.com/suite/sites/mysite another URL: www.abc.com/mysite.

1.What Does Nullable = True or False means in XSD ? 2. i have installed an Appian from PlayStore in Mobile  . What is the server address to community .

I want to know what is the most effective strategy to handle old production processes that were designed with a methodology that involves extensive and long-lasting processes. In addition, we face numerous PRO issues that require quick solutions from the support team. Simultaneously, improvements are being made to extend or enhance the functionality of these processes. However, problems arise when we have to solve an issue that involves the modification of objects that are also being altered in the enhancements and are not yet stable. Another challenge is managing active instances with old versions of the flow; when trying to implement a new version of the process, conflicts can arise due to incompatibility between the old version of the instance and the new version of the process. Appian suggests a method in their documentation, but I find it has several limitations. I am interested to know how they handle these situations in other projects to learn from the best practices applied. do

hi, My team wanted to build a common library/application i.e. Global_CaseManagement where the application will be exported to 2 instances for 2 regions to share (similar to a common library), i.e. UK_Bank  and US_Bank.Let's name the rule as rule!Global_GetNextCase which used within a node by a common global process model namely ACTION - Get Next Case Given the rule Global_GetNextCase will have different logic for UK and US, what would be the recommended way to do the common rule override?The dependency graph as below :1. Global (application) -> ACTION - Get Next Case -> rule!Global_GetNextCase -> rule!Global_GetNextCase_UK2. Global (application) -> ACTION - Get Next Case -> rule!Global_GetNextCase -> rule!Global_GetNextCase_USThis way will create a problem where both UK and US rules will be imported into the instances respectively causing unwanted dependency issue, cause UK only needs&

Good morning, I am trying to locate the file appian_log4j.properties, but I am unable to reach the path /deployment/web.war/WEB-INF/resources. I am working from an Appian Cloud environment. Could someone please guide me on how to get there or where to find the information? Thank you very much

Hello , Any best practices around how do we manage objects which are not required anymore ? Specially when those objects have been previously deployed to production.  Is it a best practice to delete such objects ? If this could be an option , then such objects could be easily deleted in the development environment but then how do we promote the deletion to high environments ? Or someone will have to manually delete them in the high environments ? Thank you. 

Good morning everyone,  I am new in Appian, we are setup to use SSO to log in Appian, when users are created, it send wrong informations to the users. Is it possible toi disable the automatic email sent when creating a new user? Thank you

Hello All, We have a use case where we need to restrict Appian users that have access to Appian designer to not to upload a certain file type extensions like executable files for example. We've tried to restrict by adding extensions to block on admin console but it is only restricting on Sites and portals but not on Designer. Note : We need to apply restrictions on create new document file upload component and import application file upload component. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

I receive the following email when resetting the password from the Appian Console or using the "Forgot Password" option from the login page. "We recently received a request to reset your password. However, it is not currently possible to reset your password because your credentials are maintained by another system. You should contact your site administrator if you need to reset your password or if you did not expect this email." Please help on to reset password.  Thanks, Umesh Kumar

I am trying to find an answer for the below question : Can we capture the user activity in Admin console or designer page even if the user is not changing anything there . If the user just explore the admin console pages like maintenance window , user start pages ,etc. and they are not making any changes , Is this activity also captured in the logs and if it is which log should I find it? Thanks in advance for the help!

There are "System Groups"   in Appian and General groups(All Users, Administrators )  which we create for security purpose .  Just wanted to understand on which scenario we can go for each of them . Is there any real time difference .

Hello everyone, i am trying to upgrade from 20.4 to 22.1. All the services start normally, but on tomcat log, i get the following :  Using CATALINA_BASE: "C:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat"Using CATALINA_HOME: "C:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat"Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "C:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat\temp"Using JRE_HOME: "C:\Appian\java"Using CLASSPATH: "C:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat\bin\bootstrap.jar;C:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat\bin\tomcat-juli.jar"Using CATALINA_OPTS: " -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Duser.timezone=GMT -Djava.naming.factory.initial=com.appiancorp.tomcat.naming.TomcatInitialContextFactory -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dorg.osgi.framework.security=osgi -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=60 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000 -Dtomcat.cacheArchiveEntries=true -Dio.opentracing.contrib.jdbc.excludeFastQueryThresholdMs=100 -Dio.opentracing.contrib.jdbc.slowQueryThres

Hi all, User complains he is not able to see the application content on ipad but able to see in the laptop. Can anyone help on this

Hi Appian User, How Can I collapse the UI vertically?" "i want collapse on the right and not upwards., how can we do that."

Hello all, currently I have 3 org, dev, QA, and prod.  I have made new inserts in a cloud data base table in the dev environment.  Given that the same table in the QA org have the same 14 entries as the table in dev org, what would be the best practice to deploy the update from said table from the dev to QA org.  Any help would be appreciated.

Actually, I had my passwords correct for the login, but I don't know for what reason I have been thrown up a message that my password/username is invalid. So, I tried to reset my password. When I'm trying to reset my password, I am getting a pop-up that my password reset link is expired even though I have opened the link right after I got the mail. No matter how many times I tried, I am getting the same issue. In the end I'm neither able to logon nor reset my password. Can anyone help me out.? NOTE:- I am new to appian. Don't have much experience with appian.

Once a user gets designer access, then it can create applications but I would like to have more control over that so then I want to give access to designer but not allowing all designer users to create applications (they would only be able to create objects within the applications they have been granted access to). 

Hi,     We have a requirement to clone the OnPrem environment to GCP. Has anyone done this earlier. Does Appian has any documentation or utility for the same?

Over the pass few years much has changed for data structures within Appian, specifically with record types and custom data types (CDT). There does not seem to be any official documentation on how to convert an application designed using CDTs to one using records. While CDTs have not been entirely fazed out but rather relegated to support with plugins and smart services, it is often more performant and (based on Appian documentation) preferred to build using record types.  My questions are: For larger "legacy" systems is there a significant benefit to converting the existing CDTs used in process models, interfaces, rules, etc. to record types? Is there a fast and efficient way of converting these types from CDT to Record.

Hi！ As my requirement i need to queryRecordtype .Based on the results of a query using an expression rule in the interface dropdownI would like to select id when name is selected as shown in the image below. Thanks

The user_management.csv is missing in our distributed environments. I cannot locate it on any server (app, engine, search). In standalone environments, the log file exists. I compared <APPIAN_HOME>/deployment/web.war/WEB-INF/resources/appian_log4j.properties and <APPIAN_HOME>/server/_conf/logging/log.properties and there were no discrepancies regarding this log file. Has anyone else had this issue? 

We have a process responsible for sending emails to the client company from two different domain email addresses. I'm utilizing a custom sender, and replies are also directed to this from address. However, in the mail properties, the 'mailed_by' field still displays the Cloud Environment URL and the from as well it is showing Via cloud Url. Is there any workaround for this issue? Ideally, the receiver should only see the 'From' address in all instances.  

Hi all,We have a deployment account in QA having system admin access. For some nodes, we are using lane assignment as "Run as whoever designed the process model". In one of the nodes, we are retrieving data from a record but due to some reason, data is not being retrieved(that PV is empty). Same code is working in dev but not in test. The only difference is In dev, it runs with my name and in QA, it runs with the deployment account name. Even though its a system admin account, should it be added to viewers group for retrieving data? Is there any missing piece over here?