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Hello All,   We have followed the steps what we have in the appian documentation "Mail Server Setup" but unable to receive the emails, please anyone advise me what needs to check further from our side. Thanks Lakshman

Hi  Ler's say i want to create a common application where i would like to put all common parent groups for all the other appian applications and other common stuff. When i create a group in an another application with parent group in the common application there is a cyclic precedents relationship between the two groups (the parent group relays on member group and the member group relays  on parent group). The only way i found to deploy common application first without receive the warning of "missing precedents" is to assing rule membership by rule. I would like to know if there is a best practice in order to manage those kind of application design concerns.  I'm a java developer and for me it's really odd behaviour this cyclic relationship by desgin Thanks a lot in advance 

Hi team, I am working as linux admin for appian , We need to find out what all components needs to be backed up in case of Server crash, we should be able to install Appian and restore all configurations and data back with less efforts Thanks and regards Kuldeep Pawar

Hello together, as I didn't found something suitable in Appian Playbook or documentation. (perhaps i am just blind, then please provide suitable links)I want to ask for your experience regarding calling data of a second application.Scenario: You have already applications A,B,C.... live.Now you want to create another one (Application D) which likes to get some data from Application A.What is the most elegant way in your opinion?I think there a plenty possible ways to archive this technically. I am still thinking about the best one. Reusing the same query rule of application A in applicaiton D regardless that its another application?Copying/Dublicating query rules of application A to application D?Creatin web services in application A and integration in application D?Two data stores which use the same DB scheme?.......What would be your favorite one and mostly: WHY? ;)Looking forward to read your input there. Kind regards to you all!

Hi,  I have terminated site in appian community for a fresh start but I couldn't access "My Appian Site" in Appian Community. Can u please help to start a fresh site please?

Hi. My cocnern is if we have to work on a project as team.For example one person designs a CDT for the module she/he is given to work,how can i pull the same project and add my screen CDTs to it.In short how can we work on a same project as a team.Every time do we need it pulishing and importing ?Wont that be a lot of re work? Can anyone shed some light on how to work in the same project as a team that anytime i can acccess it and i work  for the modules that is given to me?

Hi, I'm still having trouble getting the site started. I reinstalled Appian, which was installed with Oracle DB, because of an error on the site due to the character set change. I would really appreciate it if you could reply ASAP. Thanks for reading my question. [ The log below is the error that occurred during installation. ]

Hi Everyone, What will happen if one of more external database is down which are configured in Data Store. Will Appian tries to connect continuously in backend or will only connect when any process model, expression uses 

Greetings, My coworkers and I are trying to install Appian 21.3 locally. We have follow the guide step by step and when we are launching tomcat it doesn't launch properly and when we read the logs it says this: 2021-09-23 15:13:27 INFORMACIÓN [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load Initialization processed in 808 ms2021-09-23 15:13:27 INFORMACIÓN [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal Arrancando servicio [Catalina]2021-09-23 15:13:27 INFORMACIÓN [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal Starting Servlet engine: [Apache Tomcat/8.5.70]2021-09-23 15:13:27 INFORMACIÓN [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor Desplieque del descriptor de configuración [C:\appian213\appian\tomcat\apache-tomcat\conf\Catalina\localhost\suite.xml]Tomcat Cache Archive Entries [true]2021-09-23 15:13:37 GRAVE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.ConnectionPool.init Unab

Hello Team, I have SAML SSO successfully configured and running in terms of Authentication but when a notification of task is received and I click on that link it takes asks me whether I am an SSO user or non SSO (which is as per configuration of IdP Choices). Now the problem, when I click on SSO User  1) If I am not already logged in previously in another tab, it successfully takes me to the task. 2) If I am not logged in it asks me to enter my credentials --> I enter correct credentials but it gives me 401 unauthorized error. Can anyone suggest for point #2?

Can some one please give initial pointers or checks I need to consider while doing sql server integration services with appian cloud. For e.g. it will be via VPN tunnel and DBA has to provide NATed IPs or dynamic configuration with f5 on database etc.

I am looking for the best way to loop over an integration for each item in an array, and append the result (in this case a document) to a variable.  Ideally I would do this directly in the UI.

Assume we have a task report displayed within an Appian app. Usually, I would see all tasks assigned to an user, meaning also some tasks spawned by other apps. What is the silver bullet here? My current approach is the following, i.e. filtering by Process whose process name contains the prefix of my app which looks rather improvised to me. Is there an out-of the box way how to obtain the app which created a specific task? Related questions https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/general/8197/how-to-get-process-model-name-and-application-name-from-process-instance-id https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/best-practices/10583/show-only-tasks-per-application-in-task-report

HI,  I'm trying to use default search in an entity backed record. I want to show a list of records which are also stored in a different table on the grid. I tried to call the values in a local variable in Default filters(expression mode), and when I try to use the "IN" function,  I get an error saying "Cannot apply operator [IN] to field". So, I have used a for each and "=" function to achieve what I needed. Is this a good approach or do we have any other option to do it in Appian? Note: I know it can also be done via a view and filter those in the backend. I would like to understand whether there is any other option that we can look into?

Hi, We have a process model that calls some integration SOAP services (that process is small and contains less than ten nodes). That process needs to be called by different Appian applications (on same server), so we need to generalize this process model. Today, we have 5 applications : - SHARED_APP : commun rules and components used by each applications below - APP1_APIs : APIs integration used by APP1 - APP1 : application 1 - APP2 : application 2 (that application contains temporarly the Integration SOAP API describes above) - APP3 : application 3 How would you do to generalize this process model ? - Creating this process model in the SHARED_APP application. Then the SOAP Integration service would be added there too.   In this case, the 3 applications (APP1, 2, 3) would just need to call this general process model from SHARED_APP - Creating this process model in a new application called SHARED_API. The

One of our customers wants us to deposit files into a folder that is shared on their internal network.  A good analogy would be that this was for print queueing, although that's not the whole story.  I'm not seeing any simple Smart Services or Plugin's that will allow for file operations on a remote file share. An alternative is to place an FTP server in front of that process and let the developers on the remote side handle managing how the files get from the FTP service to the correct print queue. Is there a better way, am I missing something?

Hi, On a daily basis we are asked to create a new Appian user and then add to a particular Appian Application. Could someone help to find a way to extract such users created and added to the particular group based on date basis ? Thanks Faisal

Hi together, I have the following calculation: ri!timstamp(decimal)="1630391405000" if( isnull(ri!timestamp), todatetime(null), a!localVariables( local!hours: floor(ri!timestamp/1000/60/60), local!hoursMilli: local!hours*1000*60*60, local!tsMinusHours: ri!timestamp - local!hoursMilli, local!minutes: floor(local!tsMinusHours/1000/60), local!minutesMilli: local!minutes*1000*60, local!tsMinusMinutes: local!tsMinusHours - local!minutesMilli, local!tsMinusMinutes ) ) result 5000(decimal) if( isnull(ri!timestamp), todatetime(null), a!localVariables( local!hours: floor(ri!timestamp/1000/60/60), local!hoursMilli: local!hours*1000*60*60, local!tsMinusHours: ri!timestamp - local!hoursMilli, local!minutes: floor(local!tsMinusHours/1000/60), local!minutesMilli: local!minutes*1000*60, local!tsMinusMinutes: local!tsMinusHours - local!minutesMilli, local!seconds: todecimal(quotient(local!tsMinusHours, 1000.00)), local!second

We developed a process rich applications that's going to be accessed by 20k+ users across the geo locations. We are exploring the options available for stress testing of the app. Any suggestion on the performance tools that we can leverage and simulate 100s of SSO concurrent users?

Hi, We recently set-up a on-premise installation Appian 21.2 which run on a Docker Container. While configuring the mail server setup we were unable to send email using the Send Email Smart Service. When we looked at the  tomcat-stdOut.log we found 2021-08-24 06:39:00,391 [Appian Work Item - 1 - execution00 : UnattendedJavaActivityRequest] ERROR com.appiancorp.ap2.mail.Mail - Could not send mail via smtpout.secureserver.net:465 to 2021-08-24 06:39:00,394 [Appian Work Item - 1 - execution00 : UnattendedJavaActivityRequest] ERROR com.appiancorp.process.runtime.activities.SendEmailActivity - com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 530 authentication required com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 530 authentication required at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.issueSendCommand(SMTPTransport.java:2108) at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.mailFrom(SMTPTransport.java:1609) at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.sendMessage(SMTPTransport.java:1117) at com.appiancorp.ap2.mail.Mail.

I created a Web API that has a DB View CDT. I want to use this API endpoint in an external application. I also created Web APIs that are table-based (not view-based) and they can be read in my external application without issue. But when I use the same view-based web API I get a 500 error code on the external app (even Postman). Now to access those web APIs I created a service account with API Keys and they work with table-based web APIs but not view-based web APIs. Are service accounts not able to access DB views? What am I missing? Also what's best practice to get the API key (that's created when service account is created) from Appian instead of having to hard-code it in the external application?

I had added this user as the process administrator, but when this user is triggeling the cancel process smart service, trying to cancel the previous process, it always saying no premission. it only works when a designer or systemadmin triggeling it. How can I give the premission to that user? p.s.:I don't want to user send/receive message.

Hi all, We have Appian v18.1 installed on Windows Server 2008R2 and we try to migrate  from LDAP to LDAPs. Even we confirm with administrator of Domain Controllers that we set parameters correctly we did not succeed with migration. The Domani Controllers are Windows 2016 and 2019 and we suspect that the TLS is 1.0 and we should use 1.3 minimum. Can any one help me with this migration? BR,Natasa  

We have issue with logging into Appian via SSO only on Edge browser. Where as the same working on IE and Chrome. The same SSO configuration worked even on Edge when we configured. It stopped working from this week.  No changes are done to the SSO configuration in Appian / IDP side since it was working. Looking for help. Error message in logs

Hi All,    We are trying to start the Appian services but after starting all the services , the below error is throwing up and getting stopped , anyone please help ./inner-start.sh: line 17: 29545 Killed ./catalina.sh run 2021-03-29 06:37:42 Appian in Tomcat is forcibly killed Warm Regards Vineeth