Process Modeling

My health check report indicates that I have the following problem to solve:"276 process models have an alert setting that does not follow best practices. All models should have explicit custom settings to alert the appropriate business support group and should not explicitly reference users." I have 459, and as far as i know most of them are configurated this way: And also this warning in all the proceses configurated this way: 1. Is this the problem? Should I set all of them with custom settings > Send to group?2. Maybe I only have part o them like this, and the other 276 processes are configurated to Send alert to an specific User and I only have to change those ones?3.Or Maybe is there any other place where I can set alarms, for example in specific nodes? Since the picture is General Properties of the Whole Process Model. Thank you so much!

What is the actual use or difference between  "a!StartProcess and a!StartProcessLink" . What could be a  real time Usecase for both .

Hi,  I have a process model , called from the interface using a!startProcess() upon hitting submit button. Each Node has been connected with activity chaining.  Nodes - There are two API calls and a user interface ( just a message with OK button -attended node configured for pp!initiator.  The process model works fine, but it waits in the User interface node for the initiator to attend it as task. my requirement is : The Interface needs to get displayed in the Site which has to be accepted by the User and not go to the task list and accept. Any advice is appreciated. 

How to unarchive a archived process in appian? and who has access to do so?

Use of Swimlanes

Hello team, is there a way how to have the option "Return to all assignees" kept enabled but disable the "Reject", "Reassign" buttons? If i set set the reassignment option of task to "No Privilege" it will disable the "Reject" and "Reassign" options, but as well the "Return to all assignees" which i need to keep enabled once i accept the task. Thanks for any advice

Is it best practice to verify if an error will occur on every node in the process? In this instance, I've set a timer to delay for 5 or 10 minutes, so even if the process in the first line encounters an error, it won't be marked as active with error. thank you. 

Is there any difference between Start process and Start process smart service?

Hi All, Firstly, sorry if this is duplicate question. I could not able find from discussion tab. There is a scenario where we need to store UserName who accepts the task . So, the user who accepts the task needs to be captured after completion of task. The user who accepts the task (i.e tp!owner) needs to be stored in a db field. i have tried many times but in process variable i could see 'Null' value and not storing in DB column. PFA. code snippet. kindly help me one of the process model. below script task i have configured like this and storing into CDT entity checkerid field. after success process model run status. before task assigned to user the process variable properties showing like this status is = Assigned and CheckerId= null values. from below screen print i have accepted task and approved. now status got updated to Approved.  the next flow is to update task owner property to CheckerId field. but noting showing here. but

 Hi, hope you're all doing well! I would like to have shortcuts specially for the mouse "select" and the "connect" tool in Appian Process Modeler. As they get so much usage, it should be extremely useful to instead of be always clicking the same tools, we could simply type "S"  to switch between"connect/select" cursors. To be honest I am fascinated by shortcuts, but those two would be of crucial value in my opinion, as the reasons are already explicated above. By the way I would like to know what are the possibilities for this suggestion to get implemented? Thanks in advance

Hi All, We are getting the following error in process model "This process has been inactive for a time period exceeding defined limits" . This error is occuring in a user input task. Can anyone let us know what is the reason behind getting this error? The process has been configured to run every day at 12am.

Hello Everyone , I am facing a problem with  AX_SupervisorForm When i try to approve a vehilce error massage showing this 

I have one array and want to run startProcess() for each value in the array. I have implemented the following, but I get an error (Non-Save Reactions should be unwrapped individually and not processed as a list)localVariables( local!array:{"1", "2", "3"}, . . . . saveInto:a!forEach( items: local!array, expression: a!startProcess( processModel: cons!AAAAAAA, processParameters: { value: fv!item, }, onSuccess: { a!save(ri!result,fv!processInfo.pv.result) } ) ) ) )

Can anyone let me know the difference between a escalation and an exception in a process model.

I'm encountering an intermittent issue when using a!startProcessLink within a a!richTextItem in a task. The process model being called is fully chained from Start to End and works fine when called from a Record as a Record Action. But in this case where I am calling from a Task, once the process ends, I sometimes get the error message: "The Task Could Not Be Submitted. The task has already been submitted." This occurs sporadically. Any insights into why this might be happening and how it can be resolved? Thank you!

Hello, I keep getting the this error in my process model: "Error: Work Item Cancelled (Data Inputs)" on a Create Group smart service node. I read that this is often caused by the assigned user being deactivated, however the lane assignment is to an active user and all notes as assigned in the lane. What else could be the issue?

Hi Team,I am trying to use Export Data Store Entity to CSV smart service where DSE fetching data from view. Failing Node Error: Details: An error occurred while accessing the datastore entity: View1Contact a system administrator for additional data.  Could you provide any suggestions on how to resolve it? Thanks in Advance [mention:126a676c85024855948336691b0a7b92:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] 

Hi community members, So in a process model, I added a XOR node. In the condition I put "=a!isUserMemberOfGroup(loggedInUser,  a!groupsByName("Test group"))". The purpose is if the user belongs Test group it will go to path A. If not it will go to path B. So I'm sure the loggedInUser belongs to Test group, however when testing, after this XOR node it goes to path B. Did I make some mistake on that expression? I tried "=a!isUserMemberOfGroup(pv!loggedInUser,  a!groupsByName("Test group"))" and it was not working too. Any suggestions? Based on suggestions,  I created a constant for the group and use the expression a!isUserMemberOfGroup(loggedInUser(),cons!TEST_GROUP) . However it still didn't work as expected in the XOR node (not outputing "true"). But when I test the expression outside of the process, it outputs "true". So I'm wondering what's potential

Hi, Have a user input task which is assigned to group of assignees. Have configured the task to be reassigned with original pool of assignees, but user can see the option to reassign to anyone. Refer to screenshots below: Can any one help how to get this fixed. Thanks.

Is there any way to acquire the active process instance IDs of a particular process model which we need to update in the database for cancelling purpose Like for case id 1001, the process instance id is 12223333. Can this be achieved using any report??Thanks in advance

Is it possible to trigger a process model when a new file is uploaded to a certain folder?Use Case:To run a process model that will send a file to another process.

I have process model, after start node configured a user input task with MNI and activity chained. I have configured this process model as related action when I initiates the process from the record it is not showing the form  instead it shows action completed

Hi All, i am facing below issue while start process in debugging mode. The process getting stuck at write data store entity node and i could see under process details tab 'Unattended'. can some one please explain what went wrong here? i do not see any error just process getting stuck at there and data not loading into DB.

I am using the Fill PDF Smart Service from the PDF Tools plugin. I have a fillable PDF with an image field that I am trying to insert an image into. The image is stored in the knowledge center. I have the PDF Field value in the data tab set as such.  { {"name": "image", "value": todocument(pv!documentId) } } However, it is not filling the field and there are no errors when running the process for debugging. Please advise.

I am looking for a way to Archive process instances after few days(example 1 day) and then delete those archived instances after 7 days? Do we have anything in Appian which can support both of these requirements. I know we can use data setup to either archive or delete, but not both. Reason: I don't want to delete the instances immediately because that helps troubleshoot issues and i would need to archive as soon as they are completed as there are 1000s of instance generated on daily basis. Thanks in advance.