There are a number of plug-ins and applications that are often used in most Appian standard installations. Below is a list of the most commonly used plug-ins that you should consider installing on your Appian platform to aid in development efforts as well as platform management.
Name
Version
Description
Cloud Approved
Content Tools
20.3+
These functions extend Appian content and offer document/folder search, directory listing, and the ability to get/set the searchable attribute of a folder
Yes
Regular Expression Functions
19.2+
Exposes Java Regular Expression string manipulation capabilities as Appian Functions. Very useful for validation rules and data manipulation on interactive SAIL forms
Excel Tools
A set of smart services and functions that allow for handling and manipulating data from and in Excel documents
Rich Text Editor Component
Allows for users to type text and format it with a variety of style options
Personalization Utilities
7.8+, 21.4
A collection of functions and smart services that allows for operations on People and Group objects.
People Functions
20.3+, 22.3
Provides designers with a collection of user and group related expression functions and smart services. This set of functions is useful in helping to determine user group memberships by a variety of different group attributes.
User and Group Management Tempo Application
20.2+
Useful Application to expose user and group management in the Tempo environment.
Record Comments
20.2+, 21.1
Enable collaboration on your records by adding a comment stream on any record view. Engage users with your records with email notifications and sentiment scoring.
Audit History Application
20.1+, 22.1
The Audit History application allows designers to easily store an audit trail in the database and allows users to post key events to the News feed to encourage collaboration.
Database Load Generation
22.3+
This tool can be used to quickly generate multiple rows for each of the application transactional tables to easily support database load testing.
Appian Selenium API
21.2+
Appian specific Selenium API library containing methods to allow interaction with Appian components in a browser. It can be used in a Java application or integrated directly into any Selenium or Java-based testing tool to create automated tests on the Appian platform.