Process Automation

Hi, I am validating just uploaded document size  with below code: if( rule!APN_isBlank(ri!documentId), { fullName: null(), name: null(), ext: null(), size: tointeger(null()) }, a!localVariables( local!value: a!fileUploadField(value: todocument(ri!documentId), target:cons!RMO_FOLDER_ALL_DOCUMENTS, fileNames: fv!file), local!fileDetails: tostring(local!value.contents.value.filename), local!fileName: extract(local!fileDetails, "[name=", ", extension" )[1], local!fileExt: extract(local!fileDetails, "extension=", ", size")[1], local!fileSize: tointeger(extract(local!fileDetails, "size=", "]")[1]), { fullName: local!fileName & if(rule!APN_isBlank(local!fileExt), "", "." & local!fileExt), name: local!fileName, ext: local!fileExt, size: local!fileSize } )) Issue: After clicking on submitting button, document name storing as [name=Document Name, extension=docx, size=3752844] instead of only d

Hi there,  I'm in the process of automating use case of opening an emails and read the content and take decisions accordingly. Can someone shed some light of doing it via Appian RPA? The documentation seems to be little elusive particularly in the case of adding the jars and workflow libraries for the outlook module in the Appian RPA console. 

"APPIAN" (TEXT TYPE)  --- Should return in "NAIPPA"

Hi Everyone, I am trying to automate outlook application. But I am getting the below error continuously.  Caused by: com.novayre.jidoka.outlook.api.exception.JidokaMsOutlookException: Invoke of: RetentionPolicyNameSource: Microsoft OutlookDescription: The operation failed. Has anyone faced similar scenario . Please guide me if you had overcome this scenario. Thanks

Hi,  I am a beginner in RPA, Trying the tutorial- Excel data provider. The tutorial says, I have to use the template Please Help.

Hi, We are using webservicequery() function for calling an SOAP API which is taking more than 90 seconds to retrieve the data, Which is causing Appian to error out due to default 60 seconds socket timeout. So we increased the socket timeout to 180 seconds, After this change Appian doesn’t error out and also doesn’t show response data.  I'm not sure but I think the default auto retry at every 60 sec of Appian error handling is causing problems https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/22.1/Automatic_Error_Handling.html#external-error-handling. Does anyone know the root cause of this issue  ? Thanks in Advance

Goal: name1, name2, name3 (show and hide comas in between and names if they are selected)  Default is N/A if no names are selected What I have tried: if(isnull({pv!process.name1,pv!process.name2,pv!process.name3}), "N/A","") & if(isnull(pv!process.name1), "",", "& pv!process.name1) & if(isnull(pv!process.name2), "", ", "&pv!process.name2) & if(isnull(pv!process.name3), "", ", "&pv!process.name3))

Hi Team, I have a rich text editor in my interface and its value is saved as "text" in DB with all the tags (that includes bullets, colors, background color, highlight etc ). I want to extract only the text part of the data. How can I do this? Like if the value is saved as "<div>Assigned to <em style="color: rgb(0, 71, 178);">XYZ</em></div>" , I only want "Assigned to XYZ". striphtml() function throws error. Appian version 21.1

Goal: John Joe(12/2) Breakdown: Name: John.Joe (User picker) Birthday: (date&time)If no name is selected then present "N/A"What I have tried:  =if(isnull(pv!processvariable.name), "N/A", user(pv!processvariable.name,"firstName")& " " & user(pv!processVriable.name,"lastName") & "(" pv!processVariable.birthday &" )" )Problem: Issue with If statement 

"Activity Chaining in Process Model" I have 3 User Input tasks which are assigned to different Groups/users. For instance, I enable activity chaining between them . What will happen in that case. 

how can we get today date with time instead of now() function.

Hi, i have a picker field when i select some particular users names it has to show validation message else no  i have written like this but it is showing for all users whoever i select in picker field 

Hi,I have downloaded the latest jre version and installed it but anytime I run a bot it gives me this error of "[ERROR] 2022-05-10 18:54:49 - - java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)" and more lines of error? Any clue on how this can be managed?

Could someone explain why the following code work without compiler errors? if( isnull(ri!user), "", isusernametaken(ri!user), user(ri!user, "firstName") & " " & user(ri!user, "lastName"), joinarray(split(ri!user, "."), " ") ) I expect some kind of evaluation error, but it works just as the three lines starting on "isusernametaken" were an embedded if. I saw that in one of the Appian courses and I'm wondering if it is some undocumented feature of the if function. Thank you

Hi, I have a!queryEntity where I have to apply few filters for querying data. I have to apply 3 filters with an "AND" along with these filters I have to apply additional 2 filters with "OR".  Is this possible. Any advices please.

Hi,I'm trying to setup the configurator ( maven) for Appian RPA and i'm unable to add the URL needed to the appian repository.Can anyone guide me on what exactly needs to be mentioned and where can get the required URL for the configurator to get set up.

Hello, I am using Appian RPA using Google Chrome to login to a client web site for downloading PDF documents. The URLs for downloading the PDFs are obtained from the web site, but on navigating to these URLs the documents are getting directly opened in browser. Is there a way by which I can download them ? I would also like to whether there is a way by which I can directly upload these documents to Appian without downloading them to the local machine ? Regards, Deepak Devarajan

Hi, For the above expression rule, if I try to add a!isNullorEmpty(local!ID), then I can getting false, but I am expecting true. Am I doing anything wrong here.

I'm just trying to learn if there is any way that we can introduce business exceptions and system exceptions into the automation flow like the other RPA tools (like try catch ) kind of elements?

I have created this rule to get the group names from my task report in a grid . but when there are multiple groups are present at assignee column, it gives error saying invalid group exception. Here is the code: if( or( runtimetypeof( ri!groupOrUser ) = tointeger( 'type!{http://www.appian.com/ae/types/2009}Group' ), like( ri!groupOrUser, "?Group:*" ) ), touser(group( togroup( touniformstring( ri!groupOrUser ) ), "groupName" )), rule!APN_displayUser( touser( ri!groupOrUser ) ) ) Rule input-user or group Any suggestions?

To get the all numbers between 2 numbers.

We are having a start date Eg. "2022-04-22 18:10:03"(Datatype: Date & Time) . I need to add 5 hours to the date and should provide me result as "2022-04-25 14:10:03". Requirement: Should not include time between 19:01(7:01 pm) to 9:59(am) and week end (Saturday & Sunday). Explanation: 4th April is Friday and the time given was 18:10(6:10pm). Total time taken is 50 min to complete 7pm on 4th April. As 23rd and 24th comes under week ends (Saturday & Sunday) we need to remove those date and time. Then we need to add date from 25th10:00am resulting in adding 4 hours 50 min on 25th.

Has anyone implemented a custom picker that queries all the expression rules in an environment ?

Hello! I'm with a problem using Appian RPA that when I click in one button in any browser (IE, Chrome or Firefox) it opens another tab that I can't switch to. I can do that using "Does desktop window title match?" but using both "Does browser window title match?" and "Switch tab or browser" it doesn't work and I can't use that tab. Can someone help me please? Appian Version: 22.1 Appian RPA Version: 8.1.0-79fe6dbff

I have a query entity where i am passing date column AA to fetch some info from table. Now based on Source,i need to use different date columns.Example: For Source A i have to pass column DateAAAA, for source BB pass DateBBB etc. I dont find a way to pass the source here. Like if source is A,then do this ...  a!queryFilter( field: "dateFilterXXXX", operator: ">=", value: gmt( todatetime( workday( local(now(), "America/New_York"), -10, ri!holidays ) & " " & totime("16:00 PM") ) ) ), else.... a!queryFilter( field: "dateFilterBBBB", operator: ">=", value: gmt( todatetime( workday( local(now(), "America/New_York"), -10, ri!holidays ) & " " & totime("16:00 PM") ) ) ), I am not passing parameters from any other place into this rule, so i dont find a way to pass the source. I need to get the source first and then define filters accordingly. Please suggest on how i c