Process Automation

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Good Day Expert, Can anyone please guide me how to read a value of a field from any desktop application (not browser based)? Foe example, opening a any desktop application and wanted to read a value of a fields Name, Age and ect. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Kalai.

since RPA is blowing up I was hoping to rewatch some Appian videos. Any recommendations?

We had an issue at production yesterday where the system tried to access a property inside an empty string.Looking more closely, we discovered that the a!fromJson is not doing as it was supposed to do. Here on the a!fromJson (21.1) documentation, we see that the property with an empty string it's converted to null But when we execute the same code on the expressions, this comes back as an empty string, not maintaining its described functionality. The problem is that when we try to access a property from a null value, it does not throw an error. But when we try to access a property from a Text it throws an error and we know how problematic those are

Hi Everyone, I have a scenario where the bot will send the document from local server to Appian knowledge center via API. My clients wanted to know how the document is secured. 1. Encryption scheme during bot to Appian cloud transit. 2. Once the document is stored in KC. does it get encrypted? if yes, can you please let me know the encryption scheme. Thanks in Advance !!

Hello, how to build an expression rule  which has 2 inputs - 1 is string, 2nd is alphabet. print the count of characters matching alphabet with the string (Umbrella to expected Result -u1m1b1r1e1l2a1)

Hi there, kind new to Appian, just want to know how to remove the leading zero from a string in Expression rule. thanks,

Hi All, I'm trying to build a use case where a bot needs to fill in an Appian Form from a Site. I have used browser low code module to achieve this. However I see an issue while choosing a value from dropdown field. I have been using XPATH to fill in the form fields and it works in all the use cases except for dropdowns. Below is the options I have chosen Selector: XPATH Interaction: Select dropdown choice by visible text Looks like the a!dropdownField() is not recognized as a dropdown by the RPA browser module's select dropdown by index/visible text. Any suggestions on how to handle this? Thanks, Arjun.

facing  the error with outlook version - 2016 pro [ERROR] 2021-03-09 11:43:43 13s (0h) - com.novayre.jidoka.outlook.api.exception.JidokaMsOutlookException: Invoke of: SaveAsFileSource: Microsoft OutlookDescription: Cannot save the attachment. The path does not exist. Verify the path is correct Is there any specific version on which all operations will work fine as with 2016 pro we have an issue with saving attachments? https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_outlook-mso_win10-mso_o365b/outlook-path-does-not-exist-verify-the-path-is/37bf4802-dc8d-4e29-8f10-75af043db712

Hi All, We have written the code for a keyword driven framework in eclipse. When we are trying to deploy the method in RPA from eclipse, we get the message "deployed successfully/build successfully" in eclipse CatLog  but few methods that are having return type are not getting reflected in RPA console. Thus our query is to confirm whether there is any possibility to deploy a class into RPA from eclipse or methods with return types? Thanks and Regards, Pragya Dwivedi

I have the following situation: - search text field for entering the client's ID - ADD button that does the search and adds the client to the grid - pretty complex UI which has this part regarding ADD button: a!buttonArrayLayout( buttons: { a!buttonWidget( label: "Add", saveInto: { a!save(local!addbButtonSwitch, not(local!addbButtonSwitch)), a!localVariables( local!client: a!refreshVariable( value: rule!APP_getclient( clientGroup: fv!item.id, clientCheckCdt: ri!clientCheck_cdt, clientRequestCdt: ri!request_cdt, searchString: trim( local!searchId[fv!index] ),

Hi, I have Question on adding a new field with Number(decimal) as type in CDT by using XSD Uploading, i am in confuse situation where what will the following values for Decimal?? is it decimal or float or double in XSD file </xsd:element> <xsd:element name="Amount" nillable="true" type="xsd:double"> <xsd:annotation> <xsd:appinfo source="appian.jpa">@Column(name="AMOUNT", length=255)</xsd:appinfo> If needed to Map the same field to Database SQL what will be AMOUNT column will be?? is it decimal or Double or Float or something else and also does length also be mentioned??

Hi All, I am trying to connect Jenkins with the Appian RPA, where we have to pass a pom file path, when we create Jenkins job. There is some authentication issue while parsing the pom file. PFA the screenshot for the same. In case anyone has faced similar issues please share a work around. Thanks in advance! Thanks and Regards,

Hi, I have a dictionary as below - a!localVariables( local!data: { { col1: 1, col2: "N1", col3: "A1", col4: "S1" }, { col1: 2, col2: "N2", col3: "A2", col4: "S2" }, { col1: 3, col2: "N1", col3: "A1", col4: "S3" } }, local!data) I want a result that comes up post running this code  - a!localVariables( local!data: { { col1: 1, col2: "N1", col3: "A1", col4: "S1" }, { col1: 2, col2: "N2", col3: "A2", col4: "S2" }, { col1: 3, col2: "N1", col3: "A1", col4: "S3" } }, local!commonData: a!forEach( items: local!data, expression: { data: index( local!data, wherecontains( merge({ fv!item.col2 }, { fv!item.col3 }), merge({ local!data.col2 }, { local!data.col3 }) ), {} ) } ), union(local!commonData,local!commonData)) But I am getting error Expression evaluation error at function 'union' Cannot compare ty

From the tutorial of RPA, it is asked to add instruction to Robotic process. But there is no section of Instruction in Robotic Process Configuration. Can anyone help?

Hi guys,  i'm trying to understeand the RWM component. But  when I try to access I receiving this error: I'm a "role admin", I can acess to appian RPA and create new project. I've got a "roleoperation permission", i need to have different permission?  Thanks and best regards, Erzen

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Hello community, I wonder if it is possible to check with in a if condition if a passed value of any type is a CDT.I want to make a generic expression rule to convert a body from JSON to CDT with two rule inputs.1 body of type text.2 any type, but only CDT's so no integer, string etc. So I want the to JSON function only to execute when the ruleinput is a CDT, if not I want to return a custom error message text string.Are the CDT in a specific reserved numeric range so I can use that, or is there another approach? Kind Regard, Erik

a!queryEntity( entity: cons!CH_ENTITY_Clients, query: a!query( filter: a!queryFilter( field: "cid", operator: "=", value: ri!rid, ), pagingInfo: a!pagingInfo( startIndex: "1", batchSize: "1" ) )).data

Hello, after Appian upgrade to version 20.4, I have a problem with confirming Save & Close button in Expression EditorClose and Save & Close buttons are now up and when I try to click on Save & Close button it's like I'm trying to edit that button.I can't confirm it. Any suggestions? How to solve that problem?Thanks,  BR

Hi Everyone, If anyone has debugged RPA process using Intellij, please let me know the steps. I can able to see the documentation given only for eclipse . Please guide me.

Hi All, I'm building an use case where there is a need to iterate through a queue and Fill some forms. For this, I will need to save current row items from a queue in to few process variables. Later, I use these process variables to fill values on browser forms. How do we save a queue current row/item into PV/PV's? Thanks in advance, Arjun.

Hi All,   Could u pls help me for my below questions   What are the steps to follow the Appian to External System?

Hi Guys, Can you please help me with the below query, * I wanted to upload a file from local to Execution results in RPA console.  *  Send file from Local to Appian KC without using Web API.  Please share if you have any sample codes as well. Appreciate your help !!  thanks,

 I have one editable grid in which one priority field is there: a!integerField( label: "Priority", labelPosition: "ABOVE", value: if(not(isnull(fv!item.priority)),int(fv!item.priority)-rule!CRP_CheckPriority(fv!item.priority,fv!item.contentdomain),fv!item.priority), /*saveInto: a!save(fv!item.priority,if(rule!CRP_CheckPriority(fv!item.priority,fv!item.contentdomain)>0,a!save(save!value,int(fv!item.priority)-rule!CRP_CheckPriority(fv!item.priority,fv!item.contentdomain)),save!value)), */ saveInto: {a!save(fv!item.priority,save!value) /*if(rule!CRP_CheckPriority(fv!item.priority,fv!item.contentdomain)>0,a!save(fv!item.priority,int(fv!item.priority)-rule!CRP_CheckPriority(fv!item.priority,fv!item.contentdomain)),a!save(fv!item.priority,save!value))*/ }, refreshAfter: "UNFOCUS", readOnly: if(local!gridreadonly="Edit",true,false), validations: {if(and(local!gridreadonly="Save",not (isnull(fv!item.priority))),{if(count(rule!CRP_Get