Governance

Hi, I am having an issue where if I log out of an environment and log back in again, the screen I am presented with is tempo as opposed to the site page that I have configured in the user start pages section of the admin console. There are no other pages (tempo included) configured in the admin console except for the one that I want. I have tried removing all users from the tempo users group but that does nothing. This is happening for all users. I don't know of any other way to configure user start pages other than the tab in the admin console. Does anyone know anything about this and any way to fix it? It is going to be an issue for end users in a live system where we do not use tempo at all. Many thanks

Hi, I am managing an Appian app across multiple environments and need to monitor licensing usage. I need to be able to identify users who have not logged in the past 90 days and need to do this analysis by user group. However, I cannot find any 'Last Login Date' field anywhere. Interested to know how other people have approached this. One very manual solution would be to process the audit log file daily to compute and maintain manually a 'Last Login Date' field, but I am hoping to find a more elegant/sustainable solution. Additionally, the audit log file does not indicate the user group(s). How can I include / Where can I find this information? Thanks for your suggestion. Much appreciated!

Hi,  I am an Appian Partner, but not seeing Connected claims in download list. Should i pay exta for this ? 

Hi Team, Is there a possibility to get the usernames and their password by the administrator on Appian? What kind of user details do we have access to?

Hi, I have exported an Appian Application from server A and Import into server B. But, when I looked into Server# B after import there in no Application name, but I was able to see individual objects. Can someone advise, what needs to needs to be done if I have to get the same application name from Server# A to Server# B. Advise if I have to any other process to bring the code from one server to another server. Server# A Server# B

There is a User Input Task in the process model that is assigned to a group. All users are receiving emails, but some members receive an email with only their email address in the ‘To’ field, while I received the same email with 10 members listed in the ‘To’ field. where to set this configuration

We have two separate Appian applications, but deployment notification emails currently go to the same global recipient list. We need different groups to be notified based on which application is deployed. What is the recommended way to achieve this?

Hi all, We want to restrict the drop table and truncate table privileges to certain users in certain schemas. I'm aware of the documentation strategy for restricting write or admin permissions: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/25.4/appian-cloud-database-administration.html#cloud-database We need to go finer here, not that radical. We have designers maintaining our PRO environment, we need them to write into the DB (as they may need to fix incidents) but we want to prevent them running more "hardcore" commands, like drop or truncate. I've also looked at the Appian admin stored procedures, to see if we can do anything similar to the normal "grant" dba commands, but I've been unable to find anything useful. Any advice? Thanks in advance.

Hi , have 6 integrations in the process model flow , it should be run in sequence manner and each integration is depending on previous integration call, now i have to complete the process model within 5 see , could you please let me best approach to follow ? thanks!

Hello Team, Can you please help me out to findout this server.conf.notifications file in Appian (25.1). Regards, Srini

My use case is: I receive a dynamic Excel file from the user each time, with changing column names, different sheet numbers, and a large amount of data. I need to insert this data into the database and display it in the interface. I tried Excel-to-DB, but it doesn’t work dynamically. I also tried using AI to extract data from Excel, but I’m not able to extract all sheets dynamically. What should I try?

Hi everyone, I’m starting a new application in Appian and I want to choose the right approach for storing and managing data. Should I go for  Data Store (CDT + Data Store mappings) from there creating record type or  Directly use the Record Type backed by a database table What's the purpose of data store generally? I meant by for the modern Appian developement do we need data store necessarily  Since this is a new build, I want to follow best practices and avoid making architectural mistakes early. My Question For a fresh application, what is the recommended approach for: Application/master/transactional data CRUD operations Reporting and relationships Security and scalability Long-term maintainability Should I rely on Data Store, PDP, Record Sync, or directly use a Database-backed Record Type? If you have any guidelines, comparison points, or real-world experience on which option is better in 2025 Appian architecture, please share your insights. Notes : 

Hello Appian Community, I’m exploring Appian Case Management and came across some implementations described as “case management style.” However, when researching, I see references to Appian Case Management as a native framework. Observations from typical implementations: Short-lived processes triggered on UI submission Routing logic partly handled via staric Match() expressions State stored in database tables Audit/history maintained manually in tables My questions: 1. In Appian, is Case Management a native framework that you configure, or is it just a coding style/pattern? 2. How can we objectively distinguish a true case management implementation from a hybrid or DB-driven workflow that only simulates case management? 3. Are there official Appian guidelines or best practices confirming this? Thank you for your guidance!

Thank you for your earlier advice on saving logs at application startup. As we approach the production phase of the system, I am attempting to deploy from the development environment to the testing environment, but I am encountering an import error with the aforementioned logging output application. It indicates that there is a problem with the baseURL in the connected system, but I do not see anything particularly wrong. Is there anything specific I should check? What I'm concerned about is that this application connects to a Web API within my server, and it's authenticated with a security account. The security account for the testing environment has not yet been created; could this be a factor? <ERROR>An error occurred while creating connectedSystem [uuid=_a-0000eeac-676e-8000-XXXX-XXXcXXXXXcXX_XXXXX]: The connected system [id= uuid=_a-0000eeac-676e-8000-XXXX-XXXcXXXXXcXX_XXXXX] was not created because a value for baseUrl must be provided in an import customization file

Hi Team, which tool is better to use for testing with appian application for automation testing? thanks!

Can we install Appian Designer on our local system or on a cloud VM to explore server-level configurations and functionality?

I am looking forward to create a notification for some users before the Idle User Deactivation process run. Is there a way to check when the Idle User Deactivation happened?

I'm unable to build SAML authentication for Azure Entra ID authentication using SAML Single Sign on. Whenever I try to to test connection from appian its showing me No trusted assertions were provided by the Identity Provider. My Azure Basic SAML Configuration:- Identifier (Entity ID): https://mysite.appiancloud.com Reply URL (Assertion Consumer Service URL): mysite.appiancloud.com/.../AssertionConsumer

docs.appian.com/.../appian-cloud-database-administration.html Does anyone have additional context on the reasoning behind these recommendations?  My client has hard data segregation needs and plans to use multiple schemas to address them, but we want to know more about what problems we might expect to run into.  We're using the cloud database. The biggest issue reported to me so far had to do was a problem around using compare and deploy to update stored procedures (ones that reference multiple schemas), but they found a manual workaround to mitigate that issue.  I'm curious if there's any other notable issues that can be expected or if there's any loss of other capabilities we're unaware of at this time. Thanks

This may be an odd request, but can I call deployments api v2 in the lowest environment (dev) to get the export log files associated with a package? I ask because in Admin->Infrastructure, we have enabled incoming and outgoing external deployments only for our 'next' environment (SIT), and adding new environment doesn't allow self-reference. My connected system seems to be failing and suspect that enable incoming / outgoing is only set for 'SIT' environment. The motivation for the ask is to grab the export logs of a package at the dev level to load in unexported precedents for further processing. Thanks for any insight, Eric Casteel

Hi. We need more precise information regarding advice and best practices for doing a rollback / reverting a direct deploy. We intend to do a big deploy which restructures a lot of tables, processes, rule expressions and interfaces. We want to have a rollback plan if anything goes wrong, but i dont find any option in the deploy panel for rollbacks or reverts.any info is welcomed.

I'm planning to run a nightly process that will see if any new application has been created for the past 24 hours, and then send notification with some instructions to the person who created the new application.  is there a way to detect these new application containers? any plug-in I can utilize?  We self manage Appian on Kubernetes, so we have access to logs and Appian metadata. 

Hi Team,  one of the colleague added to UAT environment, but not sure who added that user to environment  and how added to..? is there any way to track that?  Note: He is new to our team. thanks

I hope this message finds you well. I would like to log the event of an interface being opened. However, my understanding is that on the interface itself, unless an action such as clicking a button occurs, it is not possible to write a record or start a process model. When consulting ChatGPT, I received the following idea: Create a Web API on Appian that returns an image as the response and simultaneously saves a log. Place an image on the target interface and set the endpoint of the Web API created in (1) as the image source. As a result, when the interface is opened, the Web API in (1) is called, and the log is recorded. However, it seems that the function a!writeToDataStoreEntity does not get triggered inside the Web API. I have two questions and would appreciate your advice: What should I review to implement the above ChatGPT idea successfully? Are there alternative methods to log when an interface is opened? Thank you in advance for your kind advice.

Hi team, I'm exploring options to fetch user login audit logs for extended periods such as the last 3 months, 6 months, or 1 year. Currently, I only see daily login audit data available. Is there a more efficient or consolidated approach to retrieve historical login activity over longer durations? Any guidance or best practices from the community would be appreciated.