Plug-ins

Hi Champ, I am using docx from template smart service to create my docx from a template and converting to same to pdf later on to generate my pdf in the required format. I have a use case where I need to show checkbox to the user which they can fill it later on. Is it feasible ? Regards, Ghanashyam

Hi Guys, I had a requirement that my Appian Application needs to consume data from Kafka. For this i have added a Plug-in called (Kafka tool). It contains 2 smart services.  1. Consume from Kafka. 2. Publish To Kafka. So, i used Consume from Kafka Node in my process model. In data tab there are following Node inputs and node outputs to configure. Node Inputs: Servers * (Text) Data Source Name * (Text) Transaction Table Name * (Text) Security Protocol * (Text) Secure Credentials Store Key (Text) S A S L Mechanism (Text) Group Id * (Text) Num Consumers * (Number (Integer)) Topic * (Text) Job Type Id * (Number (Integer)) Runtime In Minutes * (Number (Integer)) Polling Interval In Ms * (Number (Integer)) Sleeping Interval In Ms *&nbs

Hi, Move to collab is not receiving files from the folder. Files exist in the folder and Poll File System folder smart service is able to read the list of files. Details below: 1) Move to Collab Output 2) Poll file system folder Output Both constants point to same folder on local server. Please let me know if anyone has faced this issue

Hi! I am currently using the smart service "MS Word 2007 Doc from Template" to generate a word with a default template and to be able to retrieve the data of a record within a label that can be printed as a sticker. My question is, is there a way that I can generate a word document with N records and when I retrieve that data each record is stored in a separate tag. It would be something like this: Thanks for your help.

Hi Appian folks, I was trying to go through Appian documentation and academy for creating a custom function plug-in. I had a question: Trying to import "com.appiancorp.suiteapi.expression.annotations" on IntelliJ for Java class. It is unable to recognize the "com.appiancorp" library. We might need a JAR file for "com.appiancorp" package. I am trying find the JAR file to download but unable to find it. Am I missing anything here? Also, is there any other approach that you could suggest to get the appropriate libraries to create a custom plug-in for Appian via. IntelliJ?

I have deployed process management utilities in that, I used to configure pause process in the process model to pause the process instance, but i'm fail to achieve expected output can any one help me like how to configure pause process.

Has anyone used Online Office Integration plugin? I was going through its documentation but was not able to understand how to get WOPI client url and other steps too. If anyone has used this plugin, please write down the steps required to use it.Thank you!

Hi , Recently we have upgraded to 22.3 from19.4 version, it was working fine in 19.4 but we are facing issue in 22.3 with this plugin getting below error. What will be the replacement of this if its deprecated plugin? or any other approach to achieve same functionality. Thanks

Hello everyone, Recently we updated our smart service from   to as the former smart service is deprecated. Can anyone tell what i should be passing in "Remote File Name" parameter(Additional parameter compare to previous smart service) in "Send File Over SFTP Using SCS" smart service? I have tried passing document name there, but am getting error indicating file or directory doesn't exist.  Thanks in advance!

Hi Everyone, As part of our client's policy every document needs to be classified as public / private / confidential.  when we upload a document that has classification as "confidential" and trying to generate PDF document with the help of plug-in "PDF from DOCX"  I'm receiving the following error message :  com.appiancorp.ps.adt.conversion.DocxToPDF - Error while executing Custom Smart Serviceorg.apache.poi.openxml4j.exceptions.OLE2NotOfficeXmlFileException: The supplied data appears to be in the OLE2 Format. You are calling the part of POI that deals with OOXML (Office Open XML) Documents. You need to call a different part of POI to process this data (eg HSSF instead of XSSF)

Hi All, Getting the below error on the getpdftext function of pdftools plugin While combing through the logs I couldn't find anything as the above error message but something like this Appreciate if someone can shred some light on the issue and if you have faced the issue 

Hello,  The custom javascript plugin being hosted in an extra domain.... it cannot forward back to appian the authentication information coming from the parent. So http calls made by the custom plugin cannot be authentified in appian. Is there a way to use an  appian webapi,servlet from a custom javavascript plugin with authentication included ? Thanks in advance  David L.    

When I call the plugin GetConstantOrRuleUUIDByName() with a previously created expression it does return the UUIDD, however when I create a new expression it returns the name of the expression and not the UUIDD.

Hi All, We are using "Receive files over FTP" smart service to fetch files from a FTP folder and save it in Appian. However, we are not able to fetch the file & smart service is getting completed without any error. Could you please help us understand what is the exact parameter values we need to pass? External System Key: Added username & password in third party credential store in Admin console. There a key got generated (although the test connection is failing). We are using the key in the External System Key parameter as a string (eg. "externl_key"). Use Per User Credential: False Server Host Name: Text value, shared by external system Server Port: Number value, shared by external system Remote File URL: URL of the file appending the actual file name with extension

While using the Merge Pdf smart service i am getting the below error. Error com.appiancrop.util.BundleUtils - Cannot retrieve the value for key "Contents.error.userMsg" from the bundle. Error com.appiancrop.util.BundleUtils - Cannot retrieve the value for key "Contents.error.alertMsg" from the bundle. com.appiancorp.suiteapi.process.exceptions.SmartServiceException: userMsg[contents.error.userMsg=???contents.error.userMsg???] alertMsg[contents.error.alertMsg=???contents.error.alertMsg???] Any suggestion would be helpful.. Thanks, Ram

i need to get json data from appian server to component plugin   which plugin  is suitable for that ?? any idea  

Hi all, Using the smart service PDF from XSL FO Transformation With Fonts from the Dynamic Document Generator, I am facing issues justifying text within a block when it is not containing spaces on it: On this example: <fo:table-row> <fo:table-cell> <fo:block-container > <fo:block margin-left="0mm" margin-top="3mm" margin-bottom="0mm" linefeed-treatment='preserve' white-space-treatment='preserve-space' white-space-collapse='true' > <xsl:value-of select="descripcion_txt" /> <!-- <xsl:call-template name="zero_width_space_1"> <xsl:with-param name="data" select="descripcion_txt"/> </xsl:call-template> --> </fo:block> </fo:block-container> </fo:table-cell> </fo:table-row> Looking for some help we tested using a template to split texts but is not wrapping words correctly: Templates: <xsl:template name="zero_

Hi, Actually I created a Process Model that export SQL to Excel with the plugin, but I don't know how I can put this PM in a!startProcessLink function and how I can filter inside my interface. Last time I used a!exportDataStoreEntityToExcel function but I don't know how replecate the same filters and conditions with this Process Model. Thanks for your help.

2023-04-13 10:01:02,564 [http-nio-8080-exec-3] ERROR com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.DefaultServletModuleManager - Unable to create new reference LazyLoadedServletReference{descriptor=com.component.plugins.JsonToHtml:taskList (An example servlet that responds to GET requests with a JSON array containing the authenticated user's task list), servletContext=org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContextFacade@39b1b977}io.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$InitializationException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to introspect Class [com.component.plugins.JsonToHtml.TaskList] from ClassLoader [com.component.plugins.JsonToHtml [55]] at io.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.getInterruptibly(LazyReference.java:156) at io.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.get(LazyReference.java:116) at com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.DefaultServletModuleManager.getInstance(DefaultServletModuleManager.java:430) at com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.DefaultServletModuleManager.getServlet(DefaultServl

How to develop a component plugin from scratch and i need some examples and guidance how it works

1.Can I get a sample example for developing a plugin in which will be responsible for taking inputs form appian in json format in java and handing over it to UI(react js or javascript or html) and taking the response from UI and giving response back to appian using java 2. for above can you suggest which plugin is helpful?

Is anyone familiar with using IBM MQ and integrating it with Appian? 

HI,I am using integration to run the RPA Bot,but while Trigger the Execute Robotic process Smart service , the Workflow run succesfully .But on RPA side the Bot is not triggered and I also check the Integration ,Then i am getting Configuration error.Please let me know how it can be resolved and why its happening. Please find attached the screenshot:-

I just have a doubt, is it possible to deploy a plugin in Appian community edition environment for the sake of learning, without any Appian Support involvement?Plus, I would be Thankful if anyone provide me detailed material like how to build and deploy Plugin from Scratch.Thanks in Advance

Hi all, I am trying to follow the steps given here:  https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/21.1/develop-first-component.html And using the mapfile example given on the git: https://github.com/appian/integration-sdk-examples/tree/master/Component%20Plug-in%20(CP)%20Examples/mapField I create the zip file with the below steps: 1. Git clone the folder 2. Zip the mapfield example with the below command: zip -r mapField.zip mapField/mapField mapField/appian-component-plugin.xml But when trying to upload the files to the admin folder, I get the below error: ERROR com.appiancorp.plugins.LoggingPluginEventListener - Failed to load Component Plug-in 'maps plugin.zip': Could not parse zip file - make sure it is formatted properly. If anyone can help with this, I'd very much appreciate it!