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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!

Hi team, We have created the backup script based on the Appian documentation. Below is the script Also installed ant package . ant -version Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.9 compiled on September   we are getting above output on below path by executing ant -version command cd /opt/middleware/appian/thirdpartyappas/apache-ant/bin As per instruction(Configuration and backup) we are save below file as Linux.sh ( bash scrpt) We save below file in <appian_HOME>/_admin/_script/tools/datamaintenance But after executing ./Linux.sh I am getting Below  error  ./Linux.sh: line 4: ant: command not found  we also set environment variable in /etc/profile file  export ANT_HOME=/opt/middleware/appian/thirdpartyapps/apache-ant export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin: #!/bin/bash source ../../../../server/_scripts/exports.sh INSTALLDIR=$AE_HOME/_admin/_scripts/tools/datamaintenance/antScripts ant -f $INSTALLDIR/aecopyfiles.xml -Dae.source.

Hi All, I just need to know which one is the best practice 1)creating an expression rule to fetch the data and creating another rule to manipulate the retrieved data 2) using same expression rule for both things

Hello Appian Community, We are facing an interesting issue with SAML SSO where we are trying to return the Site the user is trying to access in the IdP response. The reason for this is we have an application with two sites in Appian. Based on user permissions they might have access to one or both sites.  In the scenario they have access to two sites we want them to navigate to the site they click. The issue is Appian can only have one IdP per entityId specified in the MetaData so when the response is returned to the IdP they aren't sure which site it is the user wants to access. Our hopeful solution is to have Appian return, in the response to the IdP, the site the user is trying to access so the IdP can redirect. Is there any possible Appian solution to edit the IdP response? Thank You, Kevin

Hello, We have done setup for the SAML to  get user authorised in GEMI. Now when we are trying to test is with Dummy user and open browser - shift plus right click- run as diffrent user - User is alwasy getting below error Error 401 - Unauthorized Sorry, your request could not be processed. I have checked all settings in Appian also Dev tool is not showing up the Roles whcih are assigned in GEMI. I am not sure if SAML setup in Appian will work like this by running browser as diffrent user . Any pointer will help. Thanks in advance . Pooja

Hi everyone I am trying to deploy a plugin to our UAT environment.  However the plugin does not deploy successfully. By inspecting the tomcat StdOut logs, I find the following error messages: 2021-11-29 18:18:21,709 [Appian Plugin Hot Deploy] ERROR com.appiancorp.plugins.LoggingPluginEventListener - Failed to load Plug-in 'excel-tools-2.2.15.jar' (excel-tools-2.2.15.jar) version 0.0: 'Cannot open JAR file: */_admin/plugins/excel-tools-2.2.15.jar' 2021-11-29 18:19:21,713 [Appian Plugin Hot Deploy] ERROR com.appiancorp.plugins.LoggingPluginEventListener - Failed to load Plug-in 'excel-tools-2.2.15.jar' (excel-tools-2.2.15.jar) version 0.0: 'Cannot open JAR file: */_admin/plugins/excel-tools-2.2.15.jar' 2021-11-29 18:20:21,718 [Appian Plugin Hot Deploy] ERROR com.appiancorp.plugins.LoggingPluginEventListener - Failed to load Plug-in 'excel-tools-2.2.15.jar' (excel-tools-2.2.15.jar) version 0.0: 'Cannot open JAR file: */_admin/plugins/excel

Dear All, Is there any way to deploy the earlier version of Plugin into cloud environment ? We are running into issue with Latest version which has deprecated few functions without work around. Kindly assist how to revert or revise to old version ? Thanks in advance !

Hello, We are on cloud and wanted to track the admin console activity such as who deployed to Plug-ins as we are using the instance across multiple team. Could you please assist us with where exactly we can find out Admin console logs in Appian Thanks in advance 

Hello Team, Is there an option to set the time zone in user setting to default to Windows System Date? Please share if there any option available for make this change which will help in reduce few clicks for the user. Thanks & Regards Girish Katti

How can I know if I have already ICC or not?

Hi all,do anyone know exact address or  IP adress of appian server which is used for health check analysis. I need this because health check is not working on my appian server because it is blocked on firewall and I need to pass traffic through my firewall to that address. Thank you for informations in advanced.

Hello Everyone, I'm trying to validate some form input passed to Appian - specifically a reCaptcha code.  While I can easily setup the integration call to do this, it requires sending a paired Secret Key as part of the message body.  While the SCS works with connected systems, it only allows me to send the secret as a request parameter OR header.  ReCaptcha, however, wants this token as part of the message body.  My question is: Is there a way to store this Secret key in the secure credential store?  Failing that, is there some other mechanism available to storing this security token in a format other than plain text?

Hello All, I would like to know what is the best practice while creating view CDT's? do we need to specify column length while creating view cdt's? Observed column length in view cdt is different from actual table column length, in this scenario view still exists upon publishing view cdt.

Hi All, We have one scheduler process which is running outside business hour to generate document (PDF) files related to each cases(records) Current implementation :once document are generated by scheduler and attached to records .Then user will go each record and download the files and print it. User new requirement :Business wants to automate this manual process of going to each record and print document. They are checking if scheduler it self send document to printer. Is there is nay out-of-box functionality available to achieve this requirement or any plugin etc. ? Thanks in advance

How to create a new method to instantiate a new queue? Hello I am very new to appian .I want to create a new action to add a queue in the workflow. From where can I create a new action?

Hi All, We have one scenario where we need to update the one field in one row in database table. Table consist of 50 columns. Question :What is the best  between below two option 1. Query Database node :can use single update query to update one row in database. 2. Write to datastore smart service :First bring all data in CDT and update value of field and then write CDT to database using Write to Datastore smart service . Note: There will be only one row to update.