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Appian Government Contract Writing is built on the Appian low-code platform and helps you and your contracting professionals manage and streamline your procurement writing process. This guide provides guidance for installing the solution.
Installing Contract Writing consists of four main steps:
Before starting the installation process, review the System Requirements to make sure all minimum requirements are met.
Current customers can log into Appian Community and open support cases. All users of Contract Writing can also email Appian Support at support@appian.com.
The first step in installing Contract Writing is to download the software package that contains the following files. These files will be used in the remaining set up steps.
To download the software package:
<ContractWritingv1.2.0.zip>
to access the installation files.Contract Writing relies on the following plug-ins to be deployed and configured in the target system before the application files can be imported.
To deploy the plug-ins for an Appian Cloud environment:
Appian Solutions
.Content tools
, Document page counter
, HTML to PDF Conversion
PDF tools
, PDF Utilities
, Rich Text Editor
, and Zip utility
.To create the structure for the database tables, views, and other objects that are a part of the CW application, you will need to run a DDL script in your database.
To create the database objects:
ContractWritingv1.2.0.sql
DDL file that was downloaded in Step 1.Note: Note: This DDL file is optimized for MariaDB. If you are using a different type of database, the DDL file may need to be modified.
The next step to install the Contract Writing application is to import the application files into the target environment.
To import the application:
ContractWritingv1.2.0.zip
file that was downloaded in Step 1.properties
file that was downloaded in Step 1.
Note: If the business database is not called Appian
, a warning will occur when inspecting/importing the data stores. After the import is complete, open each data store object and update the Data Source to fix this.
Installing Contract Writing