Governance

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

Hi,         Under My organization I have list of users registered in Appian Forum with my organizations email id. If a person leaves the organization then the email id becomes invalid and i need to remove the id from the appian community. How do I do that. Should i send a mail to Appian support or Raise a support ticket or will i be able to do it myself from MyAppian portal?

appian 21.1.220 when I try to start the appian services, it print error at services manager.log that : ARN com.appian.komodo.engine.connection.AdminKConnection - Failed to connect to execution02. Retrying in 5000 milliseconds.java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.appian.komodo.api.exceptions.SignalException: Expected: Transactions designated for engine shard 1. Instead received transaction designated forengine shard 2. at io.netty.util.concurrent.DefaultPromise.get(DefaultPromise.java:372) ~[netty-common-4.1.46.Final.jar:4.1.46.Final] at com.appian.komodo.engine.invoker.KInvoker.invokeK(KInvoker.java:66) ~[core-2.7.1.jar:2.7.1] at com.appian.komodo.engine.invoker.KApi.getLatestTransactionId(KApi.java:156) ~[core-2.7.1.jar:2.7.1] at com.appian.komodo.engine.connection.AdminKConnection.openChannel(AdminKConnection.java:191) ~[core-2.7.1.jar:2.7.1] at com.appian.komodo.engine.connection.AdminKConnection.awaitKConnection(AdminKConnection.java:150) ~[core-2.7.1.jar:2.7.1] at com.appi

Unable to start the application and getting the below error. Please help me to resolve this issue. " com.appiancorp.suiteapi.type.config.xsd.exceptions.XsdImportEcoreSaveException: An error occurred while trying to save the type information to the Appian data source. No types have been imported. Cause: No DatatypeModel was found for any of the following ids to be updated: [9881, 9882, 9893, 9894, 9895, 9901, 9911, 9912, 9917, 9919] " 

I have a single SAML IdP that authenticates users with different roles. How can I configure SAML 'Group Member Synchronization' to map users (with different AD groups) to different Appian groups?

Hey Guys, I have requirement to get the zip file from UI and unzip and then process further, Here we tried using two different plugins, Extract Zip --- this plugin doesn't work as expected, some of the subfolder in our zip doesn't unzipped. ZIP Content Extractor -- This works as expected but it's taking much time to extract (eg: - for a 5 MB file, approximately it took more than 5 minutes) is there any possible option to extract Zip file which will be uploaded from Interface? Thanks in advance.

Hello all!We are on 21.3 Cloud. We recently enabled the File Upload configuration (From Admin console) - "Block any file with an extension that does not match the underlying type". Post this change, a set of users started noticing a behavior where when they attach an RTF file, above configuration gets triggered. The RTF file they are trying to upload is generated by an application and the property of the file looks alright. Has anyone experienced such behavior and if so how to get around that? Thanks so much!