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Hi folks,is tought I just share some informationen regarding IDP (intelligent document process processing)  and different picture formats.The following question arose during a RFI creation - can Appian deal with different file formats regarding IDP? Problem: IDP can just deal with PDF So I tried to convert the following most common picture file formats to PDF, so IDP can deal with it. Testing design: User input/Form with a file upload field.  Submitting it (document array) using "Convert Image to PDF" Smart service  ("PDF Tool"- Plugin) -> so YES Appian can deal with different picture file formatsI think, there is no barrier for its IDP solution. (not verified yet).Perhaps this is interesting for my fellow designers and I wanted to share this piece of information. From further investigations: Multi page TIFF is working fine. Creating a 110 Pages PDF (11 Files of 10 page TIFF) was not an issue. The final size of the PDF w

We have created a replica of production which is on premises environment. Configuration is Appian version 19.2 - Tomcat - LDAP. We are facing below two issue in new environment 1. User is not able to access the Tempo action for which he has permissions 2. When we make a system admin to basic user, the user is not able to login Anyone faced similar issue while creating a replica or any clue how we can fix this ?

I have a process model where it inserts into the database for each record. One of the rows I try to insert returns a "List of Variant" with 0 items. Now on insertion, the process model skips that row and goes to the next one and adding it to the wrong row to the current user row. Also some of the dictionaries have a property that changes the values from "short" to "long". I used the property() function to make it where if the first is missing (short), then the other returns (long). But instead of returning the other one, it returns null and inserts into the DB as null. When I use the flatten() function on the results, the "List of Variants" get skipped as well and then instead of the 100 rows it shows, I get 94 (six are like the last code example) Here is a partial string of the response: { user : { assignment: [ { primary:true, homeUnit: [ { nameC

Hello Appian group, Today I have probably observed one limitation for external deployment: 1.) In the case if I am importing by using external tool (used deployment REST API) package from older version to newest version of Appian (20.1 -> 21.3) - the external deployment failed -  ERROR An external deployment can only target a single application, but the external deployment [uuid=956fdfb0-920a-48bb-b9a1-ef445630b1e5] targets 0 applications. 2.)  If I am repeat the same deployment - but instead external deployment I am use manual one. Deployment is successful 3.) In the case if I am importing whole application (from older version 20.1 to newer 21.3) - everything works properly for external and manual deployment 4.) In the case if I am importing package (the same package which failed from importing older version to newer version), but if this package is created on newer version 21.3. So, it is imported from 21.3 -> 21.3 - the external deployment is successful. Do you

Can we set up IDP on on-perm Appian Server (Rack Server not private cloud). please let know the possible feasibility.

Appian 20.2 - on-perm Had used a rule Event on a Process model , defined to call expression rule on it. instance is broken with error " ERROR:EVAL:@reason=Rule XXX has invalid form, so cannot be evaluated. refered to link https://community.appian.com/support/w/kb/1239/kb-1794-details-error-eval-reason-index-error-thrown-when-using-escalations-timers-and-exception-flows and had removed all parameter names while calling the Expression rule.

Background:  We do not use tempo or user tasks in our application.  All our objects are deployed to higher environments under a service profile. We are having a discussion on best practice for swim lane assignments, here are the two thoughts: 1. All swimlanes should be set to run as designer. 2. All swimlanes should be set to run as initiator unless elevated privileges are needed. I'm in camp #2.  I don't believe process models should be set to run as designer.  Our service profile has Appian Admin access and therefore should only be used on a limited basis. While I'd like to hear opinions on this, if anyone has links to Appian recommendations, that would be even better.  Seems like "best practice" is thrown around too freely without official documentation and based more on personal preference. Thanks

Hi, is there an option in the production or etc to hide internal errors so the users can't see? or there are no other option but to catch the error? TYIA

Hello, I am using a new environment which is just set up sometimes when process is failed i cant see any node in red when i monitor and if atall its showing failed node in red if error is there  no descritopn is there I cant check server logs for each and every error. Please have a look to the errror screen shot and let me know is there any server setting missing which is not giving error descritopn when process fails. Thanks,

Hi Everyone, I have installed Appian latest version of Windows Installer (Includes Hotfix Version 21.4.470) and MySql Workbench 8.0 on my Windows 11 Machine. Installation is successful, all the engines are up and running, data-server,search-sever and tomcat apache application server started successfully. But I am unable to open any page (tempo, design, etc) and getting Error 404 after clicking on URL http://localhost:8080/suite/design/ . Please find the tomcat-stdOut.log, custom.properties and tomcatResources.xml files below: [View:/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/12/tomcat_2D00_stdOut.txt:200:20] [View:/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/12/custom_5F00_properties.txt:200:11] [View:/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/12/tomcatResources.txt:200:11] Please help me out to find the root cause. Do I need to make any change in custome.properties or tomcatResources.xml? 

Hi I am installing Appian version 21.1. I have completed all installation(Linux) steps as per documentation. But we are seeing the below error while restarting the server. Please help us if anyone sees the similar issue. ERROR org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Context initialization failedorg.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.security.filterChains': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'org.springframework.security.web.DefaultSecurityFilterChain#65' while setting bean property 'sourceList' with key [65]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.security.web.DefaultSecurityFilterChain#65': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'mobileClientValidationFilter' while setting constructor argument with key [0]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error c

Hello, I'm trying to start the Appian instance, and I'm getting a loopback when running the service startup:./start.sh -p * -s allkeeps returning:execution01: Start initiated Starting execution02 execution02: Start initiated Waiting for services to start... analytics00 in STARTING state, REPLICA mode analytics01 in STARTING state, REPLICA mode analytics02 in STARTING state, REPLICA mode channels in STARTING state, REPLICA mode content in STARTING state, REPLICA mode download-stats in STARTING state, REPLICA mode execution00 in STARTING state, REPLICA mode execution01 in STARTING state, REPLICA mode execution02 in STARTING state, REPLICA mode forums in STARTING state, REPLICA mode groups in STARTING state, REPLICA mode notifications in STARTING state, REPLICA mode notifications-email in STARTING state, REPLICA mode portal in STARTING state, REPLICA mode process-design in STARTING state, REPLICA mode So far I have followed the steps described in the

I have made an application package, containing changes that require a couple of database tables to be modified: Some columns are removed, one is added and one is renamed. To this end, I have created three text files with suffix .sql. They contain SQL code, copied from MariaDB, which has a "Preview SQL" button. I add these script files to the package, like this: The problem is, that when I export the package, I get this message: What is the point of having a "database scripts" section in packages, if the scripts are omitted from the exported package?? For your information, the SQL files look like this (first file shown): ALTER TABLE `sxdatahp1` DROP `storedebitorer`;ALTER TABLE `sxdatahp1` DROP `abnekravdebitor`;ALTER TABLE `sxdatahp1` DROP `abnekravkoeretoej`;ALTER TABLE `sxdatahp1` DROP `kravudligningsbilag`;ALTER TABLE `sxdatahp1` DROP `refusionudligningsbilag`; ALTER TABLE `sxdatahp2` DROP `storedebitorer`;ALTER TABLE `sxdatahp2` DROP `abnekravdebitor`;ALTER T

Hi, I have a scenario where based on my selection on grid(which is record type) I fetch data based on selected grid Ids and provide excel with that data. Data to be shown on excel is from various table selected grid Id would help me get those data from DB. My thought process for solution here is :  To create Stored Proc taking selected grid Id as input and getting all required data and use export data to excel and get that to excel. Is that performance efficient and good to proceed with if I am not looking for creating a customized plugin for same. Will view be same or different? Any other idea to proceed in this scenario. Thanks!

Need major features will be released in 22.1 version., Can someone please let me know

Hello Guys, is there any way to embed Appian interfaces/reports in Apple/Android native mobile app?  Thanks, Bhushan

hi i have one editable grid i fetch data from one table to that editable grid so in my table items quantity is fixed so when i add items to that grid the fixed quantity is modified example:when a user raised a request he order 10 items  so when i accept the order the items of the fixed table is automatically updated so how can i do it

Hi all, We have a requirement to read some xml files from an external system when they are ready. It would be ideal to set up an API in Appian to receive a call when a file is ready but this is not an option for limitations in the external system. We have to invoke from Appian a web service every x minutes to retrieve the files. The question is, how often to do it? The requirement says we should call the external system "at least twice per minute" which I think is too frequent. As the standard timeout setting of Web Service calls is 120 ms I think we could have difficulties if we invoked the service more frequently than that.  I really dont like having to generate process instances every 5 minutes but I would like to know what is the recommendation here? The customer wants to see the files quickly. How often would you generate a process for this?  Thanks a lot

We're trying to build an admin interface that allows the administrator to see a list of all the objects in the application and manage the group permissions for each object. So to that end, is there a way to 1) search for every object in an application (or at least a particular type of object) and 2) view/modify the group permissions assigned to them? 

why we do use connected system if we can authenticate directly from integration?

We have a cloud appian site we been using to test some demo applications. Currently we have about 5000 objects saved.  What is the best way to go about reseting/clean the site? I have found some info here, but no details. Appian Cloud FAQ - Appian 21.4

Hi Appioans, I work on a large Appian-based system with several developers (~14) who at any given time can be touching/changing multiple objects.  We have developed an Agile way of working around Appian that has proved pretty successful up to now.  We have ceremonies in place to plan small, encapsulated changes on JIRA tickets.  The developers wrap all the objects required for their fix/change/enhancement in an application (which maps to the JIRA ticket) and go to great lengths to list every object that they change onto the JIRA tickets as they go.  Before deployments into other environments two or three of our team spend a great deal of time and effort making sure that tickets haven't become entangled by shared objects.  This becomes especially difficult if things get moved back to DEV from UAT.  We have now reached a point where there is just so much change happening this is becoming unmanageable.   In 2021 what is the best approach for man

We are using on premise infra for Appian development, what are the best practices and tools recommended for DevOps for Appian application? Is it possible to use Azure Devops with Appian?

How to call the data bases that appian server is connecting with?

How to configure  appian cloud database to basic user