DRAFT KB-XXXX Failed to successfully create Quick App on operation: Cannot be found

Symptoms

When attempting to create a Quick App, the following error message is returned:

Quick App Not Created - Oops! Something went wrong and we couldn't create your Quick App. Nothing has currently been created. 
You can try to create your Quick App again, but if it continues failing please contact a system administrator.

In the application server log, the following error can be seen:

com.appiancorp.ix.binding.UnresolvedReferenceException: type=content, srcId=[UUID], .... cannot be found
....
ERROR com.appiancorp.object.quickapps.QuickAppObjectType - Failed to successfully create Quick App on operation 'import from templates' - rolling back
java.lang.IllegalStateException: We cannot have any import failures

Additionally, searching for the UUID in /suite/design/ -> Objects -> Search by UUID or ID shows no results.

Cause

The system object with [UUID] is missing from the environment.

Action

Import from another environment
Possibly run the load script

Affected Versions

This article applies to all supported versions of Appian.

Last Reviewed: December 2018