Process Modeling

Zuuuup, people ! So, I'm trying to execute a process in background when a user does click a button, for example. Wanna execute it without leave the page or open a new one. For now, we're using a startProcessLink and this behavior leads user to a page that goes back to home page. Any idea to manager this situation?

As the subject line says, I've noticed recently that default in Data Input fields in different smart service nodes, the "Save Into" fields are now disabled, and this is not how the behavior worked in the past. I'm creating this thread here today because I finally noticed a place in our system where this is a bit of a blocker.  There are nodes where this was configured in the past and is now not even changeable. As you may be able to tell from the above screenshot, the "new process variable" control is NOT disabled here (but the output-selector dropdown arrow is, even though you can't tell visually).  Clicking on New PV allows you to save that input's value into that new PV, but then that output target is stuck and not changeable again (unless perhaps by adding a redundant new PV again). This really seems like a bug - if this was an intentional change then I certainly don't remember seeing any announcement for it, or mention in any of t

The task priority for the User Input Task must go to the correct outflow. But it keeps on going to bottom one ( the High Priority one ), even though I set the priority to Low. How do I configure this so that once the script task has executed, it goes to the correct outflow? Is my output correct? And this is my interface : 

Team, We have a start process which gets data from third party and process is scheduled to execute in every 5 minutes. If Appian is down during that period , we observed that when Appian comes online it start n numbers of same process for the time it was down. So let say Appian was down for 25 minutes , once appian comes online we see 5 process instances are getting triggered for the same process and leads to data duplication. We want to make sure that at any time only one process executing and not multiple. We thought of using timer to wait next to start process and assign random seconds to each instance but that fails if instances are more 25. Any other solution?

I have a question regarding the visibility of UIT in tasks. I have tried assigning the task using process variable, individual users and also through groups. All the users and groups are part of the application and have viewer permissions. Also, I made sure to run multiple instances(one for each assignee). All the assignees are receiving the tasks but when they open it, they get a blank interface. But the same task, when opened by me is working fine.   I tried the troubleshooting mentioned in the documentation: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/22.4/Testing_and_Debugging_Problems_with_Process_Models.html and nothing worked. The user input task in not been configured as quick task and the assigned users are part of the application and has basic user permissions(viewer). (I am new to Appian. I hope I was doing it correctly. Any help is appreciated.) Thank You. 

Hi all hope someone can help. I am working on an integration in a process model and I want to pass some variables to the integration step I am assigning a recordtype value to the inputs in the data tab all works for division for example where I assign pv!record.recordtypexxx.division but it doesn't work when I assign the relationship data for example departmentid has a value of =pv!record.recordtypexxx.relationshipxxx.fieldoftherelationship It seems that the relationship values are not being passed? If I create an interface to display the data everything is there as expected both in the main record type and the looked up data from the related record type is there and correct. So the relationship works. Then why when I call the relationship data in the inputs in the integration it doesn't pick it up??????

I have a CDT SOA_SUMMARY which is the parent of CDT SOA_ITEMS.In reconciliation the three columns (Bill Ref No., Bill Date, SOA Number) are merge into one. I cannot select or draw manually to configure the column and my workaround is to manually clean the data. Can you please help me to split the array of string using a script task and assign the values to designated column? It should be in a loop to iterate each row.

Hi All, I have a scenario where a process model is updated by "Person A" and that process is started by "Person B". When i try to get pp!initiator and pp!designer, am getting "Person B" as value for both. As per my knowledge "Person A" should be pp!designer. Can anyone explain why this  happened? Thanks in Advance.

I have a process including Write To Data Store Entity node, I need to query saved data after a!startProcess success, I used a!queryRecordType to query data, but I have no result.

How to transfer the data of excel file into mysql Database?

Hi, I have a requirement, where invoice documents from multiple vendors will be sent to Appian as a single PDF (page number around 250 - 300) file. As the invoice documents for each vendor needs to be processed using IDP, we need to split the PDF document into multiple PDFs. The pages for each vendor invoice documents will not be static, it can vary depending upon the content on the documents.  Kindly share your thoughts on how to proceed with splitting the PDF file to send them further for processing. Regards, Deepak Devarajan   

I want to use the function numprocessesforprocessmodelforstatus(id, status, includeSubProcessData), but I don't understand how to get the ID of the process model I want to reference. The documentation doesn't give an example that incorporates fetching the ID of a model, the example just says "numprocessesforprocessmodelforstatus(processModelId,"completed")" but doesn't explain how to get the id. The documentation has been giving me a headache since day one. If I look up "process model id" I get zero results in the documentation search.

My process models were developed and tested when Primary (and the only) Locale was English (US) by default. I now need to change the Primary Locale to English (UK) - to get the dates appearing in correct format (as I am in New Zealand, and here we use date format as dd/mm/yyyy; and not the American mm/dd/yyyy format). When I change my Primary Locale to "English (UK)" - the date formats work well; but my Process Model names are showing as "???".  I do understand that somehow I need to redefine Process Model names in the new English (UK) language (which BTW seems strange, as the process model names would be exactly same in these two "languages" :-) ). However, I don't know how to do it. Are there any other properties that I need to update for the new locale? Any thoughts, for a proper solution to this?  Thank you in advance.

Hi everyone,  One of the process models that I'm working on is using a Timer Event node, which is having a scheduled delay setting as shown below: (the constant returns 2 (integer)) I think the node supposes to delay for 2 minutes, then will activate the next node (Merge document) to run.  However, this Delay node has stuck there for much longer than 2 minutes, and when I check Process History, the node is Cancel.  The Merge Document node does not have any setting for Scheduling either I haven't worked with Timer Event before, and couldn't find the reason for this behaviour from documentation. Could anyone help me with this? Thanks a lot,

i want to convert json (text format data) into excel sheet data which Componentes or plug in i use ?

Hello, can someone help with this issue. I have a process model that retrieves data into  a variable defined as a multiple of CDT. The variable is then passed as a parameter to a sub-process, and because it is a CDT and may change it is also defined in the sub-process outputs. I can see multiple records being passed correctly to the sub-process but when the sub-Process ends, the output only has one record. Both variables in the main process and sub process are of the same type and have been defined as multiple. I can see in the process history of the sub-process that the CDT has two records, and this does not change and that the main model starts with two records and is changed to one after the call to the sub-process Any ideas why data is being lost? Many thanks SimonJ

Hello, I've noticed in couple process that I'm not able to open a process instance and somehow the process instance gets bugged and jumps nodes (Doesn't happen on every instance). Have anyone faced this issue and how you got it fixed. 2023-01-11 07:11:45,191 [ajp-nio-0.0.0.0-8009-exec-595] ERROR com.appiancorp.security.cors.CorsFilter - CORS request rejected; invalid request from xxx.xxxx.xxxx to /JSON-RPC org.apache.jasper.JasperException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: getOutputStream() has already been called for this response

Hi, There is processmodel causing JDBC exception due to long data inputs for STATUS column  local! externalReq: "resourceName=Employee,employeeDetails=[empId=,empEmail:external@yahoo.in,  status=married,married,married,married , age: 30], companyDetails=, serviceProviderDetails= ", There is a process model where its receiving some details from external API and for some reason i am getting few duplicate fields in a running process instance .For example: status column in employeeDetails table. if the resourceName =Employee then there is employeeDetails been received from API and for some reason i am getting status column as duplicated.Expected thig is status=married . and as the status column has 10 character length in DB ,my process is causing error . how can I modify the existing payload to this :-   "resourceName=Employee,employeeDetails=[empId=,empEmail:external@yahoo.in,  status=married , age: 30], companyDetails=, serviceProviderDetai

Hi everyone, I am creating a process model which starts and receives some data from email due to a Receive Message Event, then processes this data with some logic and finally sends summary email in response using Send E-Mail Smart Service. I want that the summary email that my process sends to be displayed in outlook (or any other email program) as a conversation, that means to be grouped and displayed in one thread. Case: - Person X sends email A to Person Y that triggers my process model,- Person Y receives email A,- Process model executes and sends to person Y summary email B as a response to email A,- Person Y receives email B and both emails A and B are displayed in one thread in person's Y outlook Usually in high code to do this, I need firstly set headers parameters as References, In-Reply-To for my summary email B before sending. I get this headers values of email A with Receive Message Event but I do not know how

I am having some trouble with sending an email through the process model. There's html tags being sent as part of the body of the email. I even tried using the fn!stripHtml to send just text instead of HTML. Is there a way to send an email with just text in its body. Do note that I have a process variable being called inside the email body.  Any feedback/ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Expert, Could you please describe about the "Process Backed Record".What is the role of Process Backed Record? Is Process submission is enough to define it's defination? Or Do we need to wait the completion of  the process to define its definition? Thanks

what permission is required to generate documentation  for process model? is it viewer, editor or administrator?

Hi Appian Devs, I am facing an issue while converting a merged ".docx" file in my process model.If you see the .docx file, it is merging the document as per my requirements, but when i am taking that merged document output variable to convert that document into pdf, I am getting only 2 pages of the entire docx file converted whereas the actual merged docx file is of 20 pages. I tried multiple approaches, the approach of sub-process and many other methods, but not able to get the complete merged document but failed.Can you please give me the right direction?

How to configure smart service "Load CSV File To Database" in process model ?

Hi, I'm a newbie going thru the Acme Exercise tutorial. I'm building the AX New Vehicle process model following the directions.  When I try to Save the process model I get the following error: There was an error in an expression in Process Model Properties at processName: Variable(s) not found: ri!vehicle.  But everything appears to be in place.  I even deleted the input and re-created it.  What am I missing?