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Hi team, We're struggling the the disk usage of our training environment as it's reaching its full capacity, there are several applications that can be deleted completely. However, there's no bulk deletion of applications including its contents, out-of-the-box. Do you know any easier way to perform these deletions?  P.D.: We would like to delete the DB objects (tables, views, etc) related to these applications as well. Thank you in advance! Regards, Tomás

Hi everyone, I hope this is okay to post here! I'm a certified Appian Developer currently looking for new job opportunities and not getting much traction yet. A bit about me: Appian Developer Certified Currently preparing for Senior Developer Certification [3 years] experience with Appian Open to full-time, contract, or remote roles If anyone knows of openings, is hiring, or can refer me to the right people, I would really appreciate it! Feel free to comment or send me a direct message. Thank you in advance

We have an external supplier portal in Appian where we need to implement MFA to hide sensitive sections on interface until verification is completed within the session. Preference is to avoid app-based authenticators as some suppliers are hesitant to install anything. Has anyone implemented something similar? Looking for suggestions on: Step-up MFA approach for external Appian portal users Conditionally showing/hiding sections based on completed verification App-free options like email OTP or SMS OTP that work well in Appian

I am currently preparing for the Appian ACD101 exam and came across a question that I am not completely sure about.Questions: How do you refer to the metadata of a process model object within the process model expressions? For example: the creator, name, or description.A- Process Properties, referred to in process model expressions using the pp! domain. B- Process Variables, referred to in process model expressions using the pv! domain. C- Process Model Properties, referred to in process model expressions using the pm! domain.Which option is correct, and how would you explain the reasoning behind it? I would appreciate any insights from those who have studied this topic or have recently taken the ADC101 exam.

You have set up SAML for single sign-on (SSO) in your cloud environment. Which three options could you enable in the Attribute Mapping section of the Admin Console to sync with a user's profile in Appian? (Choose three.) Options: A- 'Create new users upon sign in.' B- 'Group Membership Synchronization.' C- 'Remember Me on web and mobile.' D- 'Reactivate deactivated users upon sign in.' E- 'Update user attributes upon sign in.' Can anyone help to get the correct of above question?

Hi Appian Community, I’m currently investigating Appian internal errors (APNX) in an Appian Cloud environment. I found a KB-1107 that references ErrorCode*.properties files under a path like: <APPIAN_HOME>/ear/suite.ear/resources/text/java/com/appiancorp/suiteapi/common/exceptions The issue is that, even though I have administrator permissions in my Cloud environment, I can’t find any way to access that error code list or those files. I’d like to ask if anyone in the community can help clarify this: Is there any customer-accessible list of internal error codes for Appian Cloud environments? Is there any way to review those codes without filesystem access to the server? Has anyone worked with those property files or found a useful reference for support/troubleshooting? When Appian only shows an issue identifier, is there any public reference to interpret or map it? I’m not trying to expose anything sensitive, just trying to understand the correct

Appian Experts,  I have a question regarding AD Synchronization. We have our SAML setup to "Update user attributes upon sign in". This works perfectly fine when a user is Added/Removed from a specific entitlement in AD that is mapped to a group on Appian and that users logs in to Appian.  However, the issue arises if the users is removed from an entitlement in AD group and he never logs in again to Appian. The user remains part of the group and get task assigned till someone manually removes the user from the group in Appian.  I am pretty sure a lot of us here in the Community has encountered this situation. Can any suggest an automated way to Sync the users in AD to the groups in Appian w/o logging in. Thank you,  Janaki Ram

Hello: I am trying to create a RecordType synchronized with a web-service.  One of the data objects obtained doesn't always have the same number of sub-data points (see nutrients in the image).  In order for me to store the nutrients values, right now, I am creating 20 columns (assuming a max) and using a forEach to store each value.  Is there a better way to do this? Thank you.  

I am unable to log in using Basic User accounts in my Appian Cloud environment, while admin accounts are working fine. I have verified that the users are active and have the required group memberships. Password reset was also attempted, but the issue persists. Has anyone faced a similar issue or can suggest what configurations or logs I should check? Thanks.

Hello, We experienced an issue where an application deployed to the production environment did not work correctly. After investigation, we found that the process failed because a required user group was missing. We further checked deletion.log and found that the deployment service account appears to have deleted the group.Log excerpt: 2026-05-29 10:18:57,597 [http-nio-8080-exec-28] INFO com.appiancorp.common.logging.DeleteLogger - Successful deletion of objects: id=3126; types=group; names=["xxxx"]; deleted by user=[xxxx]. However, we could not find any deployment record corresponding to this timestamp. My question is:Is there a way to trace the actual operation performed by the deployment user account, even if there is no deployment record at that time? Any guidance would be appreciated. Thank you.

Hi , We are running Appian 25.3.690.0 on Kubernetes and need the pluginuploader-1.0.0.jar plugin file. Our original dev environment used it as an init container to pre-install plugins. Can you provide the download link or the file?" Could not find any version of "pluginuploader" jar file, could you someone help me on this please. Quicker help is much appreciated. Regards Srinivas 

Hi, my use case here is while managing a bunch of test users, I want to be able to determine for each of those test users, if their passwords have expired or going to expire so that we can display it as a warning to whomever is managing those test accounts. As such, I'm wondering if there's a way to be able to query information from system logs into a process/interface or be able to query admin console settings information? Thanks in advance

Hi Community, I'm building an HTML-to-PDF generation flow and need to embed an employee photo (stored as an Appian Document) directly into an <img> tag as a Base64 data URL, like this: <img src="data:image/png;base64,{BASE64_STRING}" /> I want to construct the value in an Appian expression as: "data:image/png;base64," & base64Data My question: Is there a built-in Appian expression function to convert a Document to a Base64 string? Using the Appian document URL directly in <img src> does not work. Thank you

How can I optimize the performance of my Appian application?

I am considering implementing pessimistic locking in Appian. However, I have heard that pessimistic locking can potentially degrade performance because it restricts concurrency. In practice, how much impact does pessimistic locking typically have on performance? Also, from a best practice perspective in Appian, what kind of design or implementation approaches should be considered? Specifically, I would appreciate guidance on topics such as: In which scenarios does pessimistic locking have a significant performance impact? When should pessimistic locking be used, and when should it be avoided? If pessimistic locking is required, are there any design techniques or best practices to minimize its performance impact?

Is there any way in Appian to capture the previous state?I have a form with a couple of dop downs where the user selects different assignees for different tasksI want to able to send an email only to the changed users. Is there any way to compare old user values with new ones to see if changes happen?

When user logs in using SAML, they face 403 access denied error. We checked the users ID and they have the required access levels. When checked on tomcat-stdout logs we see the following issue 'Cannot request SAML Assertion for SBAF Authorize Click since user is not valid for SBAF'. Any leads on this?

Hello all, I have come across certain columns of different tables which are not being used in anyway. To validate  this, I have done the following : Check for CDT dependencies Check for record type dependencies Search for usage of the field/column globally in the application Based on the above, it appears that these fields are not being referenced by anything. But prior to deleting the columns, I wanted to get your feedback regarding the following: Does the above process ensure that the columns can be deleted without causing any issues ? Is there anything else that needs to be checked prior to deleting such columns (Process Models, integration etc.) ? What is the best way to delete such columns in Appian ? Am I supposed to deprecate these columns prior to their deletion ? Thanks

Hi, Is there any log from Appian to see when a specific user was added to a group and by whom for all the existing groups? Note: I understand we can have a workarounds to track these changes by building custom functionality but I'm particularly looking to see if there is any default functionality / log that I can refer to.

Having an issue when attempting to configure cmgt studio portal module.Errors are: Incompatible function used. Refactor the portal object precedents to only use functions compatible with portals. Incompatible functions will not work in a published portal. The following precedents use an incompatible function: CMGT_UTIL_SystemTimezone [usertimezone]. Incompatible plug-in(s) detected Refactor the portal object precedents to only use plug-ins compatible with portals. Using incompatible plug-ins can cause the published portal to error. Precedent(s) containing incompatible plug-in(s): CMGT_Document_Sub_UploadDocument [Content Tools], CMGT_UTIL_LoadBrandingMap [Appian Solutions Plugin]Also CMGT_Portal_Case_IntakeForm is missing from the portal module, is this a known issue?

Hi everyone,  I'm having a multi layer nested CDT (Nested CDT that is a column in another nested CDT column of the main CDT that uses as data type) which is taking too long to query data and sometimes causes time out error. I would love to have some suggestion to optimise/ replace it with something else if possible.  Thank you 

I am deploying a package to PROD in Appian. One object got depkoyed while other couldn't as deployment completed with errors. When I checked the log, it said the particular object is open. But thing is the object isn't open anywhere. Besides, i also logged out and logged in once to check but still, deployment was failing for the particular object and it is saying the object is being edited by me.

Hey Folks, I am using an excel tools plugin for converting HTML to CSV. Now, there is a new requirement for converting PDF to CSV, and walking through the discussions and searches I haven't found any good match or solution. Can anyone help me with this? It would be highly appreciated.

We’re experiencing recurring high memory usage in our Appian Cloud DEV environment that is leading to emergency restarts. This typically occurs outside of normal development hours, when there is little to no active user activity. As part of troubleshooting, we have: Cleared all processes that had stopped due to exceptions Removed older versions of process models and interfaces Reviewed for obvious runaway process instances Reviewed guidance in KB-2011 Despite this cleanup, the memory spikes continue. Has anyone encountered similar behavior in a DEV environment with low user activity? If so: Were scheduled processes, integrations, or unattended background jobs the root cause? Are there specific logs or metrics in Appian Cloud that are most helpful for identifying memory drivers? Does exporting and removing older, inactive applications from DEV meaningfully reduce memory consumption, or is memory primarily driven by actively executing objects? Any guidance on deep

Hi everyone, I’m working on a large and complex process where we are not using User Input Tasks. Instead, we implemented a pool-based approach, where each group has its own pool of requests. All request data is stored in the database. We also have an Admin Configuration interface that allows the admin to enable or disable certain tasks for specific groups. For example, in the database we store a boolean flag: true → the request/task should appear in the pool false → the request/task should no longer appear On the interface side, we are using a grid that queries the database and filters the tasks based on this flag to display the pool for each group. The issue we are facing is the following: When the admin disables a task (changing the flag from true to false), the request still appears in the pool grid. It only disappears after performing a hard browser refresh. The standard refresh mechanisms in the interface do not update the grid immediately. My questions are: