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  • Process Alerts API

    Process alerts in Appian notify you when any severe problem in a process happens. By default, these alerts are sent by email to the mailboxes of one or more Appian user accounts. While this works pretty well, there are situations where this is just not enough. Let’s see what other options we have. Ticket System…

  • SAML Group Sync

    Appian has built in user management. It is great for simple setups or demos. For integrating Appian in an enterprise environment, we need a bit more. We require centralized management of user accounts and permissions. In a typical corporate environment, some form of Microsoft active directory (AD) is used. Other, so-called Identity Providers, exist, like…

  • Searching in Process Reports

    Process reports are one of the oldest components in Appian. I hear many developers trying to avoid them and try to replicate existing functionality by storing task and process data in the database. At the time I started with Appian in 2010, building Appian UI meant creating portal pages and populating them with process reports…