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Using Appian 24.1.  I have created a custom plugin.Let’s call the plug com.appiancorp.plugins.RaysClass.If I use log.error(“RAYS ERROR”), the entries are written to the tomcat log file.If I use log.debug(“RAYS DEBUG”) statements, those entries are NOT written.I have tried adding log4j.logger.com.appiancorp.plugins.RaysClass=DEBUG to the bottom of the appian_log4j.properties file.  Still no debug statements.If I add log4j.logger.com.appian=DEBUG, as soon as I save the file, I get a bunch of debug statements in the log.I still don’t see “RAYS DEBUG” in the log file.What must I do to write debug statements from a custom plugin to the tomcat log file?

My use case is I have a large PDF that is essentially a bunch of smaller PDFs stitched together. Each smaller PDF has a dynamic number of pages, and they’re split by a separator page, so a human can tell when an individual document starts. I know there’s a PDF Tools plug in, but it doesn’t seem like there’s functionality to split by a separator page or something similar - it’s all by a specified page range or by number of pages in a document. The best thing I can think of right now is to use AI or something to find out where the separator pages are, the page ranges of the individual documents are, and loop through the large document until the end, but that sounds like it might be complicated and I’m wondering if there’s a simpler solution? Thank you in advance!

Hi Team, We have custom registration plugin and we used to for our registration form, will show first and last names and email of the user and a captcha to verification then will allow to submit the button. Now, we are facing issue that input fields and some content in the page is no longer visible in the registration form. Could you please update me if you have any idea . Regards, Sireesha

Hi all,  I am starting to build a custom plugin for our Appian Cloud setup. I need the Appian plugin SDK jar to compile the plugin. Can someone please help me or point me to how to access the SDK jar.

Hi All, I have to export 51 columns using export data store entity to excel. I have added 2 nodes and given 50 entities in first node and 1 entity in second node of selection. I gave starting cell also (first node A1 and second AX1)Same document I want to update in second node but when it runs it makes first 50 columns (which was added by first node ) blank. Can we use this smart service any how to export more coulmns than 50 or is there any other smart service available ?

Gridplus is to a very large degree doing exactly what we needed in one of our apps, great stuff.  However, business users are getting picky now as it seems like the plug-in might not be able to refresh paging counts at the bottom of the control if filtering down the data to 0 records returned.  Any record or records present returned by the query rule listed in the configuration will update the paging counts.  I didn’t see this in known bugs, but wondering if anyone has tricked a refresh by adding a ‘do nothing’ row in the case the filtering is down to 0 records, or if someone may have another idea. 

Hi all,I’m facing an issue in Appian that I’ve been investigating for the last few months. We have an application where we update user details using the Update User Profile smart service.There are around 1,000 users in the application, but for some users, the process model fails while updating their profile with the error: “The selected supervisor is invalid.”I checked those users and found that they don’t have any supervisor assigned in the admin console.During my investigation, I opened the failed process instance using Edit Process View and checked the error node. I noticed that the Supervisor field has a value at the instance level. However, when I opened the actual process model, there is no value configured for the Supervisor field—it is not hardcoded anywhere in the process model.I have checked the process model and related configurations, but I’m still unable to figure out where this Supervisor value is coming from.Has anyone faced a similar issue in Appian or have any idea wha

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Hi, I'm trying to insert a break line inside the xml that will build the docx from Dynamic template, I tried with <br>, char(10), but I don't know what to try anymore. anyone have ideas?   the error log: "Changed to The value of attribute "daybefore" associated with an element type "rowvalues" must not contain the '<' character." if I use <br>

Hi guys, I used ADT Plugin to produce report document using "Docx from dynamic template" , I got the images in the doc but the square bracket from bookmark is explicitly visible when I gave logo image(circular image). Is there any way to remove the square brackets? This is the output image. Thanks in Advance

I'm using the MS Word 2007 Doc from Template in that smart service, but when the document is uploaded, it still replaces a few value tags even though the replacement values are already present.

Plugin Ref - Appian Community After we upgraded to v26.6, The plugin component is not rendering in Sites but working fine in Designer screen.The plugin documentation says it is supported till v25.4 only.Expecting resolution on this issue asap. [mention:88e2b1ef30684cb4a0d80ba42e17a33d:f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07]  [mention:cd654a5ec99f4d9eb3afb367bbce9958:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] [mention:92ac9d4559ff43edb28eaa01ed77691b:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] 

Environment: Appian Community Edition — Site "W1423AIS Acme IT"Data Source affected: W0380 Data Source (MariaDB)Description:I am experiencing errors indicating that multiple tables are missing from my "W0380" data source, which I did not delete or modify manually.Errors observed so far: On the "W0380AS Vehicle" record type: "The configured database table is invalid. The AS_VEHICLE table does not exist in the configured data source. Change the database table to continue." Key details: I log into this environment regularly; my last login before noticing this issue was about one week prior.I did not perform any manual deletions, renames, or schema changes on these tables.The issue appears to affect more than one table within the same data source (W0380), suggesting a possible environment-wide database issue rather than an isolated table problem. Request:Please investigate whether the underlying database for this Community Edition environment w

There is one smart service DOCX to HTML by Vuram but that is not working. It was updated 4 years ago. I need some other recommended method to so that. Anyone who did this ?? Need an urgent fix

the Zip Extractor plugin is behaving unexpectedly. On the first run, it works as expected and extracts the files into the folder. However, when I run it again with the same document ID, it fails. Has anyone encountered this before or have any suggestions on what might be causing it?

I'm building a small PoC where i need to write to an Excel spreadsheet. i need to save my data in certain cells positions.Everything i'm finding points me to use the Export dataStore to Excel Smart service and to specify those cells positions in the node input using the twocustom cell position / custom cell values.My problem is i don't have a CDT to load from, this is a purely sync records PoC. do I really have to build a CDT structure to get this to work ?

I am using SQL to Excel smart service and when exporting the data in excel, the headers are not coming in BOLD

How can I initiate the SFTP in Appian Designer? Are there any built-in Plugins available like HTTP or Appian RPA to initiate the SFTP? How can I connect AWS with the Process Model in Appian and make the data interactive between them?

We are using Rich Text plugin(Vuram) in our application and facing multiple issues some of them are - Copy the data in specific format and paste that in the editor. This does not maintain the formatting but disturbs the copied formatting - Generating some extra metadata within HTML tags causing failure in the document generation - Nested list items is not maintained too What are the options we have available to avoid such issues as the data formatting while copy paste or manual is prime requirement with the proper HTML generated by the plugin.

I am looking for some guidance on generating large PDF documents in Appian.We have an existing site page that displays more than 13,000 records. As part of an export feature, we retrieve the data, generate XML content, generate a word document and then convert it to PDF (using Advanced Document Templating plugin). Currently, the export process retrieves around 3,000 records. Each record contains several large text fields (around 5 - 6 columns) so the overall amount of content is quite large. The word document is generated successfully and is about 768 KB in size and has approximately 5 million characters. The issue occurs during the word to PDF conversion. The conversion starts, but it appears to consume significant resources and causes the environment to become unavailable.  My questions are: 1. Are there any known character limits for Word to PDF conversion plugin?2. Are there any alternative plugins or approaches that are better suited for large documents? I understand

Hi , I am facing an issue in pdf generation. that sometimes  frech and spanish letters getting eliminated from the document generated , letters like à, é. ó. I am using clean fucntion before passing the sentences to do document template.  If I don't use clean the generated document dont even getting saved in the process output even for english templates. Below is smart services I use to get the pdf generated.  This is how it appear in the grid  This is how it looks when printed, Is there any way to fix this.

Hi community, I'm using Advanced Document Templating plugin for a document generation where i have multiple chapters, and in each chapter i have have a conditional statement that if in the passed list are values then show a table else show a text "No data". This a similar structure to the one that i'm using The way that i'm implementing it is like the following in the document.xml Chapter 1

Hi Everyone as I was working in a scenario for HTML To PDF Conversion 2.1.6 Input  : Søren Mārtiņš İbra12m Núñez Guðrún Dvořák ŚmitaOutput : Søren M#rti#š #bra12m Núñez Guðrún Dvo#ák #mitaBefore that for the charset I have fixed it in webApi headers: {a!httpHeader(name: "Content-Type",value: "application/json; charset=utf-8")and it has been fixed.Now the issue happening after generating the PDF

Has anyone tried the plugin EML to PDF converter ? How does it work? From my process model it is saying completed by I can not see the completed/ converted file anywhere in the designer 

Hi Everyone, I’m facing an issue while generating a PDF from a dynamically generated Word document. Requirement: Capture multi-line text from an Appian UI Paragraph Field Populate it into a DOCX template using DOCX From Dynamic Template Convert the generated DOCX to PDF using PDF From DOCX Both smart services are from the Advanced Document Templating plugin Issue: The DOCX file is generated correctly and preserves all line breaks as expected. However, when converting the DOCX to PDF, the line breaks are not rendered in the PDF output. What I’ve tried so far: Replacing char(10) with the XML equivalent 
 Tested multiple variations, but the issue still persists Implemented solutions suggested in the references below (Links referenced below) Link 1: https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/plug-ins/28870/line-break-docx-from-dynamic-template Link 2: https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/plug-ins/28812/next-line-not-working-when-converting-from-do