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Hi ALL, I want below requirements satisfied with Gant chart. We are using editable grid to change dates.  In the same way want gantt chart to update dates via Gantt. below is needed and please suggest which plugin is best to satisfy our needs. 1. Task Structure & Organization  Task grouping and hierarchy  WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) grouping with expand/collapse  Predecessor relationships between tasks  Ability to change task dates and have downstream tasks update automatically  Ability to rename tasks  Assign task owners  2. Scheduling & Logic  Support for dependency types (FS, SS, FF, SF) with duration handling  Auto‑lag based on dependencies  Manual scheduling toggle (auto vs. manual)  Critical path identification (on/off toggle)  Visibility of Planned vs. Actual vs. Standard dates  3. Visualization & Readability  Color coding of tasks  Highlight past‑due tasks  Highlig

How can I iterate the whole table for the requirement? How should the syntax be placed for Advanced Document templating plugin. I understand the code how we can loop through the rows in a grid but how can we loop the grid itself? eg: If I have 5 employees under Labor grid I want 5 different grids dynamically created based on syntax! 

Hi Everyone, I am facing an issue with isUserPasswordValid() of the Credential Management plugin. It’s not working for me and is always returning false, even for a valid username and password. Is it working for anyone else? I am using an Appian Cloud environment. Please share your inputs. Thanks!

After upgrading version of SFTP Plugin to 4.1.1 and using SFTP Send File new smart service file permission issue is occuring.Note - Previous we were using Send File Over SFTP (Basic Credential).Please provide the information why it is occuring this is on priority for me

I have a requirement where need to generate the PDF document. if i add text which is more that 4000k then text gets overflow the screen and it comes in single line. How to add a line break so that the text should be in paragraph itself.

I am working on a custom plugin, I am curious as if there was a change in Appian version 26.3, I use content service to open a file and get the input stream, like I have down with versions 25 and older, I was curious if there was a change in how the content service works and how to properly open a file inside a custom smart service.  Code I am using: Document[] documents = contentService.download(docId, ContentConstants.VERSION_CURRENT, false);         if (documents == null || documents.length == 0) {             throw new RuntimeException(String.format("Document with id [%s] was not found.", docId));         }         Document document = documents[0];         return document.getInputStream();

Hi Team, I'm using Mail Poller plugin for reading the emails from mailbox, but I'm getting the following error message, it is not reading the emails. Any idea?ErrorMessage - Error executing the requestTimeLimitReached - false

Hi Everyone, I’m hoping to get some advice from the community on how to learn Appian Custom Plugin development. I have 3.5 years of experience as an Appian developer and am familiar with standard Appian development (SAIL, records, process models, integrations, etc.). However, I have no experience with custom plugin development. I have reviewed the Appian documentation, but I feel like I’m missing a learning path. It’s difficult to figure out: How to start as a beginner What are the actual prerequisites are How to go from developing plugin code to testing in Appian What a good first plugin project should entail I would greatly appreciate any advice from anyone who has experience with: A learning path for plugins Examples or GitHub repos for beginners Advice on local Appian development for testing plugins Things you wish you had known when you started Any advice, links, or personal experience would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help.

We are using [Deprecated] Export SQL to Flat File smart service from Excel tools plugin and we recently updated the plugin version to 2.10.0 in admin console. We tested it is working fine as expected. Do we know if we can continue using this smart service?

Hello, I am currently evaluating the HTML To PDF Conversion plug-in for generating PDF documents in Appian. The basic conversion flow works correctly: I can pass an HTML file as the source document. The Smart Service generates a PDF document. The generated PDF can be saved in Appian. However, I am having an issue with Japanese text. The HTML file displays Japanese characters correctly when opened as HTML, but after converting it to PDF, the Japanese characters are rendered as #### in the PDF. English text and numbers are displayed correctly. I have already tried the following, but the result did not change: Added <meta charset="UTF-8"/> Specified Japanese fonts in CSS, such as: Noto Sans CJK JP Noto Sans JP Meiryo Yu Gothic Arial Unicode MS Specified Open Sans, which is used in the Appian UI Removed the <style> tag entirely to check whether CSS was the cause My questions are: Does this plug-in support Japanese / CJK / Unicode charac

Hi everyone, we are encountering an issue after updating the Dynamic Document Generator plugin to the latest version from AppMarket (from v2.2.2 to v3.0.3) *******************Issue Summary:  When generating a PDF using the “PDF from Single DOCX with Fonts” Smart Service, text formatting such as bold and italic is no longer applied in the resulting PDF. Current Setup:- HTML Doc from Template Smart Service - HTML → DOCX via XHTML Smart Service   - DOCX → PDF via PDF from Single DOCX with Fonts Smart Service   - Fonts provided via constant as Appian Documents (Font folder includes Source Sans Pro (TTF and OTF))Observations: - The generated DOCX file correctly shows formatting (bold and italic) - Inspecting the DOCX XML confirms formatting tags:  - <w:b/> for bold    - <w:i/> for italic   - However, the PDF output renders all text as regular (no bold/italic)Troubleshooting Performed We attempted the following with n

Hello- We are using the MS Graph Poller plugin & am trying to poll an outlook mailbox, the data gets properly persisted into the DB but i would like to know how do we identify the current record context, right now its not returning any record id back, it only give Mailcount processed but not any id to piggy back the record. Can someone please let me know on this, am trying to get hold of the documentation for this. Regards NK

Hi Everyone, i have a task where i need to send OTP's to the numbers by sending SMS through appian, how can this task be performed. Thanks, Sathvik

It seems like in order to use MS Graph Email Poller for different inboxes, I would want to set up different schemas in the MySQL Appian Cloud database (so the tables APP_MAIL_POLLER and APP_MAIL_POLLER_DOC that the plug in uses would have a unique table per inbox).  Are there any drawbacks to this approach that someone might be aware of? We have the SCS and everything set up correctly (except for a permissions error on the secret element which is out of date). The documentation of that plug in mentions that the jndi should be set up as a datasource in admin console.  Does that mean that it treats the connection as 'accessing it from external code'?  Or, can we reference it in a different way? Thanks for any insight!

Encountering an issue with the ESRI ArcGIS map component plugin. Specifically, I'm utilizing the 'esriMapMarkerField' configuration to mark points, lines, and polygons on the map. Within this configuration, there are fields named 'onNewPointAdded', 'onNewLineAdded', and 'onNewPolygonAdded', which are supposed to trigger and save the new markings added by the user on the map. However, I'm facing a problem where after adding a point on the map and saving it onto the record type, the next time I attempt to fetch that point, it doesn't appear on the map. It seems like there might be an issue with retrieving and displaying the saved points. Could someone guide on how to ensure that points added to the map are retrieved and displayed?

Hi Team, We've run into a unique problem with the Excel Tools plugin.  Scenario is as follows: We have a set of records with various data types and a pre-formatted Excel template where cell types are already configured. For most values the export is unproblematic as the standard Appian 4-byte integer is enough to handle the integer values. However, there's a new requirement that allows us to handle values beyond that limit (i.e. LongInt), which can be used on database side, but cannot be mapped to Appian Records where we have to rely on Text values instead. While there are plugins like Big Numbers Functions that support big decimal and integer numbers, this doesn't change the fact that we are still providing the Excel Tools plugin with a text values. Although the text is all natural numbers, the cell format in the exported Excel is of type Text and must be manually changed after download before it can be used downstream. My question to you all is whether you have

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, 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>

I am using the Export SQL To Excel smart service (plug-in) and need to have a link to the summary view in the excel sheet generated by the smart service for all the respective values in the "Record ID" column. How to implement this?

Title:Appian Plugin Deploys Successfully but No Modules Appear in Admin Console (Expression Function) Question: Hello everyone, I am developing a simple Appian expression function plugin using Java and Maven in Spring Tool Suite (STS) for Appian 24.1 On-Prem. The plugin deploys successfully in Admin Console, but the Modules column is empty, so the function does not appear in the Expression Editor and cannot be used in an Expression Rule. What I have done so far: Created a simple Java class: package com.example; import com.appiancorp.suiteapi.expression.annotations.Function; import com.appiancorp.suiteapi.expression.annotations.Parameter; public class HelloPlugin { @Function public static String hello(@Parameter String name) { return "Hello " + name + " from plugin"; } } Created appian-plugin.xml: <appian-plugin key="hello-plugin" name="Hello Plugin" description="S

Hello, Im using the Smart Service Merge PDF and Im trying to use a record were I saved the documents (CO Documents). Im having trouble to put the existing document and Documents. Can someone help me?

I am using Export DSE to Excel node so currently, the data in each tab of the Export uses the default horizontal (normal) formatting.  The user would like to have the columns transposed to Vertical formatting when the Excel is created. Excel tab show the data in vertical rather than horizontal.  So, column A would have all of the column headers, Column B  & Column C should hold the related data and so forth. Kindly give your suggestions From this to  To this

Hi everyone, I am developing a Custom UI SDK component (JavaScript/Web Component) to create a custom image gallery. My goal is to have this component working seamlessly in both Appian Sites and Appian Portals in version 25.4. The Problem: I have tried using existing plugins and my own custom code, but images are not rendering. When passing the Document IDs to the SDK, the component fails to display the images. I suspect this is due to session/authentication restrictions or how the source URL is being handled, especially considering the architectural differences between Portals and Sites. Technical Details: Version: Appian 25.4. Component type: UI SDK (JavaScript). Current approach: Passing a list of Document IDs and trying to resolve them within the component. Issue: The <img> tags remain empty or return 401/403 errors when the component is loaded. What I need help with: What is the best practice for passing Appian Documents to a Custom UI SDK so they are accessible i

Hi Everyone, I have few questions regarding the two AWS S3 related plugins available in Appian. Currently there are two plugins that appear to provide similar functionality for uploading and downloading documents to Amazon S3: Amazon S3 Utilities (Smart Services) AWS S3 Bucket Management (Connected System / Integration based) Both plugins seem to support operations such as uploading documents to S3 and downloading objects from S3. However, they follow different approaches in terms of configuration and usage. My questions are: 1. What is the main architectural difference between these two plugins? 2. Are they intended for different use cases (e.g., process-based vs integration-based)? 3. Is the AWS S3 Utilities plugin considered a legacy approach compared to the Connected System based plugin? 4. For new implementations, which plugin is generally recommended by Appian? I would appreciate any insights on when to use each approach in the real time. Thanks in advance! Ananda

Hi Team  we have requirement of generaing pdf file.we have designed a flow for that first we are generating the docx file from that will bys using PDF from DOCX service trying to convert pdf file. In this process we could see docx file generating successfully we are giving docx file as input to PDF from DOCX smart service.Docx file is generating successfully but pdf file is not generating.I can see PDF from DOCX is not running sucessfully with error message of "Exception exporting package".Can someone help me what could be the reason . Thanks for the response in advance.