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In Interface how can we change the font style ? For Example i want change a column name from English to Arabic or Chinese? How can we do that?

What should be the best design, to show 20 columns in an editable grid, that is user-friendly and does not compromise on the performance? Please suggest

I need in my application to use the java enterprise edition features like EJB which comes with Tomcat Enterprise Edition.Can I know which version of Tomcat, Appian 20.4 supports? If it does not support enterprise edition feature, can I configure my own Tomcat with Appian 20.4?

Assume I have two working (form) interfaces which I used to call from the top tabs of my Appian site (object), let's call NewRecordA and NewRecordB. I now would like to introduce a secondary tab-hierachy (using e.g. card-components), and I am building a new interface with two card-components entitled "Create a new record of type A" and "Create a new record of type B", respectively. What is the recommended way of reusing the two existing interfaces (including their respective process models)?

Please consider the following scenario: We have a list of records, say of different task within a certain todo-list. Each record has entries like "task name", "deadline", ... as well as "parent-todo-list". Furthermore, I have a list of records of these "parent-todo-list" as primary column, and additional information about each of the todo-lists such as "owner of the todo-list" etc. I would now like to have links pointing from the first list to the second one. More specifically, if I click on "Nick's shopping list", I would like to have a corresponding user-filter automatically set when I click. Is that at all possible? How do I proceed? I searched in the documentation, and it was suggested to use the hard-coded URLs in the lin, which I prefer not to do. Other discussion threads were rather old, or linking to documentation pages which no longer exist, or both. Example: https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/general/81

In the Appian Process Modeler, I am able to see the menu item <Save & Publish> under File in the Test Environment. I have the same security groups in Prod but I am not able to see the menu item <Save & Publish> Any thoughts I why I can't <Save & Publish> in PROD? Thanks in advance.

I have a local variable local!allProcesses: rule!myGetAllProcesses().data which contains data from a database. The columns are processId, processName, processYear and processQuarter. I now want to have choiceLabels of a drop-down menu which combines processName, processYear and processQuarter. The corresponding choiceValues will be the processIds. Obviously, the following code works only as long as I have only a single row in the database:    choiceLabels: { concat( { local!AllProcesses.processName }, " for ", { local!AllProcesses.processYear }, " Q", { local!AllProcesses.processQuarter } ) }, choiceValues: {local!allProcesses.processId}, Otherwise, for more than one row in the database, the error code will read Could not display interface. Please check definition and inputs. Interface Definition: Expression evaluation error at fun

I want to build weather application, in that I am using third party api for different city so that it will work dynamically. But I didn't get how to work with dynamic value with help of API and Integration. API:api.openweathermap.org/.../city Waiting for answer. Thanks

What is the Best Practice for importing an existing application and view its objects in Designer ?  Step 1) Download the application in zip file and drop it in Appian Designer after clicking on "Import"Step 2) Checkbox appears that says "....import customisation file......"I see that there is a checkbox for import customisation file, when do I check this ? Kindly share the steps for application import for existing zip file, assuming it is downloaded from Appian AppMarket

Anyone knows of Appian functions / components / icons like the fileuploadfield where I can trigger print to pdf function ? 

I am new at Appian and eager to learn, so please help me if you can as I have already searched and found nothing. I can't find Appian Admin Console as shown in screenshot, how can I get it?

How to avoid sending the email of a new user? In our installation we don't need to send the email with the password because we have implemented the single sign-on to connect to Appian.

Hi, about Appian authentication, is it possibile using SAML-based SSO using SAML 2.0 specifications and SHA-2 (SHA-512) signature method algorithms? Or exist a plugin on the Appian Market with this functionality? Thanks! Gabriele

For process start forms, I use an OR gateway that goes to an end node if the pv!cancel variable is true. I don't want to implement the same flow for user input tasks as it would kill the process without a way to retrigger. The approaches I'm considering are: Looping back to the user input task if a user clicks cancel to trigger a new task Omit the cancel button from the form so that user would just have to reject They both effectively force completion or reassignment of the task. In both cases, process or data manipulation would be needed to address a task that's lingering or deemed unnecessary. I just want to gauge which of the 2 options do people find themselves doing.

I have noticed that with the Maria DB upgrade from MySQL in cloud, it will change the datatype of calculated view fields that come out to be varchar to text.  Anyone else have this issue? It causes issues as the CDT does not match due to the type change and the data store will not publish.  What steps did you take to rectify it? Thanks,

Hello, In appian we are using SAML authentication for first login but after new user creation they can't login and even after resting the password. Error : The username/password entered is invalid. usernames and passwords are case sensitive

What is best way to manage dropdown data from database? 1) create a table for each dropdown or 2) 1 table for all dropdowns. Also please consider relations between tables, for example Country, States and Cities. And with consideration of scalability, like more dropdowns or more dropdown labels.

Hi, We are aiming to have a DEV environment with HA topology to be able to develop some integrations to be then promoted to PROD via CI/CD. These developments won't be as frequent as the developments in Appian so, the need of the HA is residual. Is it possible to scale down the Appian environment easily? Having a single node up most of the time and only have the 3 from time to time? Is it just a matter of shutting down 2 nodes and change the topology.xml file?  

Need help/possible options,  Client wants to migrate PRODUCTION Appian primary APPIAN_SCHEMA  and  BUSINESS_SCHEMA from Sybase to Microsoft SQL. Is there any possible solutions to migrate or refresh the inflight Appian PRODUCTION instance intact after Db migration.

Is it in the roadmap to perhaps allow the Insights site for On Prem?  Either allow on prem to stream logs to appian (unlikely since there are likely security reasons to not be in appian cloud in the first place), or allow the Insights site to be an imported app and have it pull logs from the server or stream to the app the logs that are needed. Or even have Insights as a default site/app on all installs and it pulls the data needed [emoticon:c4563cd7d5574777a71c318021cbbcc8]

Hi, My question is maybe a little naive but for increasing performance I was asking myself if use the showWhen attribute on 10 components is as good using an IF condition to masking all these components. I took 3 examples : 1/ Case showWhen on all components : ColumnsLayout(    columnLayout        TextField_1label: "1", showWhen: false)    columnLayout(        TextField_2(label: "2", showWhen: false)     ...     columnLayout(         TextField_10(label: "10", showWhen: false)) 2/ Case showWhen on layout component : ColumnsLayout(    columnLayout        TextField_1(label: "1")     columnLayout(        TextField_2(label: "2")    ...     columnLayout(        TextField_10(label: "10")    ),&nbs

Hi together,not sure if its a question or a discussion.i just discovered that isnull() for a nested CDT is not working properly I have a CDT Processdata {"id"(integer), "startedAt"(datetime), "attachment"(CDT attachment),...} which contains the nested CDT "attachment"   {"id"(integer), "document"(document)....} -> If I try to do isnull(ri!processData.attachment.document) it is not working and i always get false as result, even the value is NULL (100%)-> if I try      ri!processData.attachment.document= todocument(Null)   its fine. ->  isnull(ri!process.documenttest) is working, so it seems to be just an issue regarding nested document CDT as far is can clarify. a) is that a bug by appian? b) what would be your approach to solve it? What is your best practice here? Thank you all :)

We created a QR code to our workplace safety app hoping visitors and vendors could access the app that way but it doesn't take them to our configured app.  It takes them to a sign on screen that requires user name and password.   Anyone have any experience using QR codes to get right to their company's app?

Hi there, We have a self-managed environment, and we have Oracle as our primary database. Currently, we are trying to configure MySql as a secondary database and we follow the steps on this link: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/20.4/Configuring_Relational_Databases.html#provide-data-source-connection-information. Performed steps: 1. install mysql-connector-java-8.0.23-1.el7.noarch.rpm in the <REPO_HOME>/tomcat/apache-tomcat/lib/. for this we moved the rpm file and runed the rpm -ivh command  to install. 2. we updated the <REPO_HOME>/conf/tomcatResources.xml.<ENVIRONMENT> file just adding the configuration for MySql  <Resource name="jdbc/AppianPrimary" factory="com.appiancorp.tomcat.datasource.EncodedPasswordDataSourceFactory" type="javax.sql.DataSource" driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver" url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@oracle_server.example.com:1521:ORACLE_FOR_APPIAN" usern

Hi, We are using SAML to asign users to groups upon login, using 2 different types of rules:  - Group based - matching SAML groups to Appian Groups (for example - Director)  - Rule based - matching user data (taken from SAML properties) to Appian Groups (for example - Office) We need to be able to create sub-groups using info from Groups + User data (to create a group for - Office Director). We need these groups to be able to assign tasks. We've tried multiple things but haven't ben able to find a solution to execute this online, and therefore have gone to a batch solution. Is there a way to:  - create a group from an interesection of 2 groups?  - create a group using group + user attribute data? Thanks