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Hello, I have forgot my username for deveoper portal and unable to login. Could you please help in resetting my username and password? My email is: swathik0312@gmail.com

Hi All, When trying to import the Appian IDP package into our environment we are having issues, where numerous process models are said to not be valid. The environment is on 22.2 and we are installing v1.8 of IDP. The errors in the import log are below: Any suggestions as to what could be wrong would be great. Thanks!

I have an idea for a SaaS application business. I would like to develop the application to be B2B for organizations in the financial sector. Can I use Appian as the platform to sell B2B in a SaaS subscription model?

It is my understanding that the "Appian" way is writing state-full applications - where the processes model instances hold the state of the application.  The main drawback is of course that being state-full means vertical scalability only. However, given current state of the horse power provided by standard hosting and the nature of Appian application  this is a non issue.  However being state-full means that long lived running processes cannot easily be upgraded in order to introduce new functionality. Reading the documentation, I am aware about an upgrade process which requires developing per upgrade plug-in which needs to be submitted and approved by APPIAN. Development of such a plug-in requires Java and Appian internals know-how, as well as locally deployed instance. This is of course beyond the rich of an average Appian developers. What is your stance  ? 

Hi Experts, What all point need to be taken into consideration while Moving Application from version 17.1 to 21.4. What all are the pre-requisite on the admin console side as well as at object level.

Hi Team, I have new requirement to add few fields in the interfaces for which i updated the existing interfaces and data types. But there are many active instances available in production which might cause issue? In One Scenario i want the latest changes also to be included after the deployment and in another task i want the hide the latest changes for few tasks. Can you please guide me to the list of steps that i need to take care while moving the changes to Production. Please let me know if any further information is required

Hi Team, We Often get the requirements from the business to Skip the flow and to complete the case. so we are cancelling the tasks and making the backend database changes when the user is unable to complete the task. Does it has Impact on the performance on the environment and what is the best way to handle this kind of Changes. Thanks In Advance

I followed this documentation for adding new calendar https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/22.4/Process_Calendar_Settings.html but i'm getting error com.appian.komodo.api.exceptions.SignalException: Invalid TimeZone

Hi all I want to hear some of the ways you guys organise the rules in an application in general or as a best practice. For example, an application involving a couple of hundred rules would be hard to manage and understand for someone new to it. I've thought of organising rules in their dedicated folders by their feature/record type. I want to know what other patterns the community follows for better organising their rules?

Hi, first of all: Best greetings to everybody here. I like to add an additional 2 factor authentication to use the community not only on my smartphone but wirh my PC also. Where can I add eg email or sms or do I need to start from scratch? Thanks in advance Matthias

Hi, We have a LDAP and AD Group process to sync AD group and its users into Appian. If a new user being added to the AD group, then same user is appearing under respective group of Appian using LDAP Sync. When the users have been removed from AD Group, after sync ran, user is also getting removed from Appian. If we remove the user in AD Group, I would like to understand if there is way to keep the user in Appian with "Inactive" status instead of deleting. Thanks in advance.

I have a primary data source schema, mapped to a Linux dev(ex: dev01) environment. From another Linux server(ex: dev02). I installed new Appian and provided same primary & secondary data source in tomcatResources.xml and custom.properties. dev02 works fine when started.  This seems to be multi-gateway installation but we are not trying to setup distributed environment. The purpose to do this is to have a separate Appian installation instance where we can do some POCs for upgrade. Q1. How Appian differentiates same primary data source for these two servers?   Q2. Will there be any impact on dev01 if we shutdown dev02 and don't use it anymore? Thanks in advance.

Hello, While attempting to access the site in the browser it continuously spin. Even tried rebooting server and restarting service even though APPIAN was down. Below is the dump of my tomcat-stdOut.log --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using CATALINA_BASE: "D:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat"Using CATALINA_HOME: "D:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat"Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "D:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat\temp"Using JRE_HOME: "D:\appian\java"Using CLASSPATH: "D:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat\bin\bootstrap.jar;D:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat\bin\tomcat-juli.jar"2021-10-26 16:45:24.778 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server version name: Apache Tomcat/8.5.502021-10-26 16:45:24.779 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListen

Hello,  While attempting to access the site in the browser it continuously spin. Even tried rebooting server and restarting service even though APPIAN was down.   Below is the dump of my tomcat-stdOut.log --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using CATALINA_BASE: "D:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat"Using CATALINA_HOME: "D:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat"Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "D:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat\temp"Using JRE_HOME: "D:\appian\java"Using CLASSPATH: "D:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat\bin\bootstrap.jar;D:\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat\bin\tomcat-juli.jar"2021-10-26 16:45:24.778 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server version name: Apache Tomcat/8.5.502021-10-26 16:45:24.779 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina

Hello, Anyone know how this can be achieved? docs.appian.com/.../High_Availability_and_Distributed_Installations.html Shared files The following directories must be shared across all servers that run that component. All servers that run the given component need both read and write access to these directories. omponent Name Folder Name Application Server APPIAN_HOME/_admin/accdocs1/ Application Server APPIAN_HOME/_admin/accdocs2/ Application Server APPIAN_HOME/_admin/accdocs3/

I am following the Create Robotic Processes with Appian (RPA).  When trying to record browser interaction to automate the manual step of searching bank name and serial number, I am not able to find Chrome and Edge in the select application dropdown.  And I checked the shortcuts of both chrome and edge in the start menu.

Hi All, There is requirement for implementing workflows having Approve and Reject functionality for people belonging to various groups. We have implemented it using Appian Task based feature where in person belonging to specific group can see the list of task that person needs to Approve Or Reject and based on Approve and Reject it moves to next persons bucket. But the issue we are facing is that the task are user input based and the process remains in Active state for long time until and unless the person acts on it. So keeping multiple process Active for long time is causing load on the performance of APPIAN as huge amount of Active task gets piled up. So my query, is this the recommended way for implementing workflows using APPIAN Task based approach. Regards Bihitak

Please let me know if we enable activity chaining on Appian Batch Process (ex: data load, copy files ) whether will that impact system performance?  Also mni is configured in one of the nodes to spawn multiple nodes. Thanks

Dear all, I need to change the phone number to send the SMS for multifactor authentication. Do you know how I can do it? Thanks in advance. Best Regards Patricia

We have requirements to build out document retention policy management features: * Define purge policy definitions to define business epxression for when documents should be purged (e.g.,  delete after X years and other business conditions met) * Create purge records to capture list of documents which will be deleted in upcoming purge cycles to allow users to define hold/exceptions which should not get purged) Has anyone built these type features in Appian and what implementation approaches were taken?Regards, Bob

Hi, I would like to restrict a user (Business User) to access only site access using site menus. At the same time, I would like to restrict business user to "Appian Designer". How can I achieve this. Any suggestions please. Thanks in advance.

Hi Team, This is a on-premise system. When we try to access the All Application View Page (http://<appian-url>/suite/design). All objects page and others are working for us.  Please find the log entry in Application Server Log: 2022-10-17 14:04:31,103 [http-nio-8080-exec-1] ERROR com.appiancorp.rest.shared.AppianExceptionMapper - Internal Server Error on REST API invocation.com.appiancorp.exceptions.LocalizedAppianRuntimeException$LocalizedAppianException: Expression evaluation error [evaluation ID = 02c9d:b38a4] : (APNX-1-4198-000) at com.appiancorp.exceptions.LocalizedAppianRuntimeException.<init>(LocalizedAppianRuntimeException.java:16) at com.appiancorp.sail.server.ServerExceptionTransformer.createLocalizedObfuscatedException(ServerExceptionTransformer.java:46) at com.appiancorp.sail.AbstractUiService.localizeException(AbstractUiService.java:113) at com.appiancorp.sail.AbstractUiService.reevaluateUi(AbstractUiService.java:79) at com.appiancorp.sail.AbstractUiServ

Dear I would like Appian RPA Robot to read/write to DB in "MS Access".So, I am trying to create custom Java code. Issues Below are wexing me now.1. How to pass values from process model to custom Java code.2. How to execute the query statement against MS Access.3. How to return query execution results from java custom code to process model Regarding 2, I think I will use UCanAccess which is one of JDBC.If you know a better way, could you tell me it. Regarding 1 and 3, could you share a sample code ?

Can anyone tell me the procedure to follow, so that I can have on-prem solution on my device. P.S, I tried following mentioned on the Appian website but it is of no use as when I try to go on the Appian Forum, it redirects me and shows error 404. So can anyone guide me?

Hi all,   Wanted to ask the community to see if anyone has some best practice recommendations to handle the edge cases caused by Appian limitations in how it detects null/empty values and how it converts null singleton types into array rule inputs; and especially recommendations on setting up re-usable query entity rules.   We've discovered that Appian handles nulls in unintuitive ways depending on the data-type. If a rule input is an array, and you pass in a singleton of the same type that is null, Appian will automatically convert that input to {null} (a one element array where that element is null), rather than null or {} (empty). According to Appian support, this is the expected behavior of the product.   However, this causes two issues for us:     The out-of-the-box isnull() and a!isNullOrEmpty() functions return false, despite a reasonable assumption that the value is null/empty. (It is not. It is a one element array with that element being null, due