View this page in the latest version of Appian. Appian Release Notes Share Share via LinkedIn Reddit Email Copy Link Print On This Page 25.2 Release Highlights Join our Appian Community team and other Appian experts as they dig into highlights from the 25.2 release. Release Highlights This release introduces many new features to extend the capabilities of the Appian platform, helping you easily build, maintain, and grow your mission-critical applications. We're particularly excited to shine a spotlight on the new no-code Control Panel centralized AI Document Center for streamlined intelligent document processing, Advanced Plug-ins like GridPlus and Microsoft Document Editor to extend platform capabilities, and a sleek, redesigned header you'll see throughout your app building experience. Introducing the Control Panel We are excited to announce the release of a new workspace: the Control Panel! The Control Panel is an out-of-the-box, entirely no-code experience for business users that allows them to configure data and interfaces for their applications and workflows. The Control Panel builds off of and expands the Studio design experience we introduced with Case Management Studio so that even more users can leverage powerful no-code tools to create applications. Unlike Designer, where low-code developers can build, manage, deploy, and monitor entire applications, the Control Panel is a workspace tailored specifically to business users. Here they can use 100% no-code tools to create the parts of the application that they know best given their in-depth knowledge of their use cases and processes. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Build no-code forms directly in the Control Panel The Control Panel's sleek and intuitive form builder allows for business users to easily build purpose-driven forms and interfaces without needing Appian training, using any code, or even hopping over to Designer. In the form builder, business users can drag-and-drop fully configured data fields into their form—no code required! And it's a breeze to add data field validations, columns, headers, and rich text in just a few clicks. Forms also work hand-in-hand with business users' ability to define their own data structures in the Control Panel, allowing them to reuse forms across cases and categories to speed up development and ensure consistency. Enable business users to effortlessly organize data The Control Panel also gives business users the power to create well-organized and effective data structures that perfectly fit their use cases. It's simple to create hierarchical data structures to not only logically organize your data by type and category, but to effortlessly create shared data fields that help reduce re-work and standardize data entry. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close The Control Panel behind the scenes The Control Panel workspace is backed by our new control panel object, which allows low-code developers to easily define the configurations that business users can make in the Control Panel workspace. This dynamic duo of the control panel object and the Control Panel workspace empowers business users to configure more of what they know best and better handle their own business processes, with less reliance on low-code developers. Note: In 25.2, the Control panel workspace and control panel object can only be used and accessed by customers with Case Management Studio and other solutions that use these capabilities. Build AI-powered document processing workflows quickly and easily Introducing AI Document Center: your one-stop-shop application for enterprise-grade intelligent document processing. Building on Appian's powerful AI skill library, AI Document Center simplifies the experience of building and testing your classification and extraction models, which can then be directly deployed in your business workflows. AI Document Center is up to the challenge of handling your business's highly complex documents with varied formatting and layouts, leading to higher classification and extraction accuracy. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close AI Document Center is based on proven customer success. One Appian customer, a large insurance company, has used AI Document Center to drive significant improvements in underwriting accuracy. Previously, underwriters manually processed thousands of underwriting documents, in many different formats and often handwritten, with 65% accuracy. But with AI Document Center, they're now able to classify documents and extract data much faster and with 95% accuracy, leading to monthly revenue growth of $400,000. Quickly define your document types or fields to extract in one intuitive workflow, and let Appian create the underlying design objects for you. As you build extraction models, AI Copilot can give you an additional boost. Tell AI Copilot you want to extract data from resumés, and it will automatically create extraction fields such as name, address, email address, work history, certifications, and skills. As always, you can make any adjustments you need to as you continue configuring the model to meet your needs. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Ready to test? Upload your test dataset to validate the model's performance directly in the app. See an opportunity to improve? Easily create a new version of the model and run additional test cases. Refine models until you are confident and ready to deploy to production. AI Document Center provides accuracy metrics—from individual fields to the overall model—to show how things are working in both test scenarios and production usage. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Amplify Appian with Advanced Plug-ins Appian plug-ins enhance and expand the capabilities of the platform. In this release, we're introducing Advanced Plug-ins, a new category of plug-ins to extend the scope of Appian functionality, integrate cutting-edge technologies, and address common business challenges. Advanced Plug-ins are developed, managed, and maintained by Appian and are now available to install directly in the Admin Console for Cloud and on MyAppian for self-managed customers. This release includes two Advanced Plug-ins: GridPlus and Microsoft Document Editor. GridPlus The GridPlus component is a user-friendly interface for viewing and editing record data with extensive customization options, including column manipulation, sorting, and filtering. Efficiently manage data with multi-cell selection, inline record creation and deletion, and keyboard navigation. We've also included the robust security controls and internationalization support you'd expect. To optimize data viewing, users can also drag-and-drop, freeze, and adjust columns. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Microsoft Document Editor This plug-in is available only for Cloud customers. The Microsoft Document Editor component offers a seamless experience to view and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents stored within an Appian Knowledge Center. This robust plug-in allows users to directly edit files stored within Appian, eliminating the need for download/reupload workflows or separate document storage solutions. This component also enables multiple users to edit Office documents concurrently. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Stay tuned to learn more about additional capabilities we launch as part of this offering! Learn more about our approach to building and maintaining Advanced Plug-ins, including details about support. Redesigned headers deliver a more polished app-building experience We've updated the look of the header across Appian to deliver a more modern experience for our users. The sleek new gradient design provides a fresh aesthetic that elevates Appian Designer and the Admin Console. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Building on these header enhancements, the interface object is also getting a modern makeover this release. In addition to incorporating the same polished gradient design, we've also updated the icons and streamlined the layout of the header. This visual upgrade helps highlight the powerful capabilities of interface objects while also making it more intuitive to navigate. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Appian AI Copilot for business users Through these features, AI Copilot helps business users be more productive and have an easier time working with applications. Find what you need faster with smart search for record types Note: This feature is available as a preview. Preview features are fully supported; however, they do not reflect the full functionality or performance of the feature yet. Smart search transforms how you find records by uncovering connections, detecting patterns, and surfacing related cases across your data fabric. You can search across your entire data fabric, including text fields or documents attached to a record—all at enterprise scale. It goes beyond keyword matching by using AI-powered semantic search to understand your intent and return better results from your business data and the documents attached to your data. For example, if you search for "electricity outage," smart search might also show results that mention "power failure" or "electricity is down." When combined with filters, smart search makes it easier to uncover connections, detect patterns, and find the information that truly matters to you. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close AI Agents AI agents empower you to automate dynamic and open-ended tasks within your business processes. AI skills are design objects that enable you to build and configure artificial intelligence (AI) agents to use in your processes. This release introduces advanced document processing capabilities, high availability for generative AI, and autoscaling support—helping you tackle complexity, boost resilience, and keep performance high. New AI Skill to tackle your complex documents: Advanced IDP Tools Appian is ready to help you tackle your most complex document processing challenges, with our new AI skill: Advanced IDP Tools. Advanced IDP Tools lets developers tap into additional intelligent document processing capabilities above and beyond other AI skills. For example, it can be tricky to extract data from lengthy and complex intake forms with tables that span multiple pages, contain nested tables, or other complicated formatting. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close When called in a process, Advanced IDP Tools returns a wealth of data that wasn't previously available, such as currency formats, label locations, and count of rows in a table. To supercharge your AI implementations, Advanced IDP Tools and prompt builder AI skills can be used together to provide generative AI skills with even more detailed information to complete their extraction task. By offering this additional data, we're opening up more processing capabilities for developers to help you manage the most complicated documents your business works with. More AI features are now highly available (HA) High availability for Appian Cloud customers is available in Appian 24.4 and later for generative AI skills, AI Copilot for business users, and AI Copilot for developers. These features provide automatic scaling and redundancy across multiple zones. High availability is also available for the new Advanced IDP Tools AI skill in Appian 25.2 and later. With high availability, your AI workflows are protected against failures and can recover quickly to minimize downtime and ensure continuous access. Power high-volume, high-value generative AI use cases with autoscaling Generative AI skills can now be used in autoscale processes, helping them stay responsive and efficient even when demand increases. Everything is ready to use—no setup required. Just build your process and Appian takes care of the rest. Optimize AI usage in your processes with token information Generative AI skills now output the number of tokens used in each execution, making it easier than ever before to determine how many tokens an application will use once it is deployed to production. By providing detailed token counts for both inputs and outputs to the AI skill, users can better understand and optimize their applications' token consumption, preventing unexpected costs and ensuring smoother and more efficient AI implementations. RPA Robotic process automation (RPA) simplifies how you build, manage, and scale digital workers to handle repetitive tasks across systems. By automating routine processes, your teams can focus on higher-value work that drives innovation and efficiency. This release introduces optimizations that make robotic tasks lighter and faster, enhancing stability during development and execution—all without increasing infrastructure demands. Streamlined robotic task development Building on our recent advancements, RPA 9.16 introduces significant optimizations to robotic tasks, reducing their size by up to 70%. For example, a robotic task that previously occupied 22MB is now just 6.5MB! This helps large robotic tasks load noticeably faster during monitoring and debugging, allowing for more efficient and responsive development. And thanks to the overall reduced memory usage, teams can now work concurrently on complex projects without requiring additional infrastructure. We've also enhanced support for nested sub-robotic tasks, allowing for more intricate automations, while optimizing server performance improves stability by lowering hard disk usage. Performance enhancements for robotic task execution The RPA 9.15 release includes key improvements that enhance the overall experience of building and running robotic tasks. Debugging and execution are now more stable, even when multiple users are working simultaneously. Robotic tasks also run more smoothly and responsively, even during complex executions. These updates improve efficiency at scale, allowing teams to develop large robotic tasks together without increasing infrastructure costs. Autoscale Autoscale combines low-code design and business process automation with unmatched scalability. This release, we're excited to introduce timer events for autoscaled processes, as well as features that make it easier to monitor and cancel large numbers of processes. Use timer events in autoscaled processes You can now add timer events to autoscaled processes, making them more flexible and adaptive to your other enterprise systems. Timers allow you to schedule when nodes run or repeat, letting you retry actions for external services that may not be responding as expected. By adding timer events to your autoscaled process, you can keep your processes running smoothly and allow Appian to resolve issues for you with less manual intervention. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Cancel autoscaled processes using filters This release, we're giving you more control over how you manage your processes on the Autoscaled Process Activity page. Instead of canceling one page at a time, you can now cancel all active autoscaled processes matching your filters with a single click. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Enhanced monitoring with new filtering and improved navigation We're also improving process monitoring by adding filters on the Autoscaled Process Activity page. We've separated out the process status and error state filters, giving you finer control over the data shown in the grid and helping you quickly find the processes you're interested in. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close And, once you dig into a process, you can open its parent or child processes in monitoring mode with a single click! Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Process HQ Combining the latest technologies in data fabric, process mining, machine learning, and generative AI, Process HQ gives business users the power to explore data and identify timely insights they can use to optimize their business. This release, we're making it faster to find and build insights with enhanced field discovery in processes and reports, single-click chart filters, drilldowns right from conformance KPIs, and more! Introducing light mode for Process HQ Now, you can choose the way you view Process HQ. In your Appian user settings, you'll find a new option that allows you to set your theme to light mode or dark mode. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Enhanced field discovery In this release, we're helping you work more efficiently in Process HQ. Now, when you browse fields to include in a process, report, or filter, you'll be able to search your fields by name, so you can quickly select the exact fields you need. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Interact with charts in data fabric insights The reports you build in data fabric insights help you monitor your business data at a glance. In this release, we're adding more power to your reports by adding interactive filtering. Now, you can click on any section of a chart to instantly filter the grid and focus on specific details of your data. With this new feature, you can easily navigate your data and answer important questions about your business. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Tune your views and KPIs with greater precision In process insights, views and KPIs help you focus on just the right data, so you can monitor process health and spot opportunities for process optimization. This release, you can more precisely refine that focus with added flexibility in filters for views and KPIs. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close You can decide to include cases based on whether a specific activity or sequence is present or not. Or, you have the option to filter based on case duration. That way, you're always analyzing cases that are most representative of your data set and most relevant to your business needs. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Explore more process details at a glance Process exploration lets you learn how your process actually operates and start seeing the patterns that cause issues. We've surfaced additional details in both your views and KPIs, so you can quickly assess whether a characteristic deserves a closer look. Now, when you click an activity or sequence in the process diagram of any page, you'll see a full set of visualizations showing you how much that part of the process contributes to inefficiency. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close And, for count, automation type, and aggregation KPIs, you'll see metrics specific to the KPI type. For example, a count KPI will show either case or occurrence counts. You'll see this type-specific approach in adjusted trend charts… Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close …new columns in the Case Attributes grid… Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close …and updated statistics in the process diagram. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close And if you're curious about how inherited filters are shaping the data you're looking at, you can easily check out a list of the view and KPI filters. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close With this enhanced exploration experience, you'll always have the relevant process details at your fingertips. Drill down on conformance Previously, we introduced the conformance KPI to give you a quick way to monitor how often activities occur in the expected order. This release, you can drill down directly from the conformance KPI to focus on activities and sequences that don't conform. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close In the drilldown page, you can quickly evaluate characteristics of the related cases and combine them into an actionable insight that can jumpstart conformance gains. Alerting on count KPIs Keeping an eye on your business processes is important. Last release, we made that easier than ever by letting you set thresholds and enable email alerts for duration KPIs. Now, we're giving you the same capability for count KPIs, so you can easily track how your process is performing compared to your expectations. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Data Fabric This release, we're excited to announce some of our biggest data fabric features yet! With the ability to manage documents with record types, schedule incremental syncs, and sync up to 20 million rows of data, you can unify even more of your data in Appian than ever before. Bring documents into your data fabric Appian's data fabric allows you to stitch together data from multiple systems into a single, secure data model, so you can build applications quickly. Now, we're expanding our data fabric and all of its powerful capabilities to support documents. Starting this release, you can use record types to manage application documents, access document properties, and streamline your document workflows. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Manage, relate, and secure documents with record types Now, you can use record types to manage documents, making them more secure and integrated in your applications. We'll even help you get started when you use codeless data modeling to build your application data. With just a click, you can generate a record type to manage documents related to your business data—no folder creation necessary. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close You can then add relationships to relate documents to other application data so you can easily display all relevant information in one place. You can also configure record-level security to provide more granular security around who can see which document. For example, users can only see case documents if they can see the related case. Plus, when you bring documents into your data fabric, you can use AI-powered features, like smart search and the Document Extraction AI skill, to explore and extract information from your documents. Easily access document properties Alongside the record type to manage your documents, we'll provide you with an out-of-the-box Document record type to store document properties, like file name, size, extension type, and creation date. We'll go ahead and set up a relationship for you between your document management record type and the Document record type, so you can use this information to filter, sort, or aggregate documents in your apps. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Streamline workflows to add, update, and remove documents As an added bonus, using a record type to manage documents means you don't have to worry about folders. Since all document access is controlled by the record type, there's no folder creation, organization, or security needed. Not only does this reduce the number of objects you need to maintain, it can also reduce the number of steps in your processes—entirely eliminating folder management tasks. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Sync data more frequently with incremental syncs We know that your organization can have multiple external systems updating data throughout the day, so this release, we're introducing a way to sync those changes more frequently: incremental syncs. You can schedule incremental syncs on any service-backed record type to regularly capture new or changed data throughout the day. This allows you to sync smaller portions of data more frequently, making fewer API calls and ultimately saving you precious time and resources. The best part? You get to decide how often those changes are synced based on your business needs—whether it's every few hours or minutes. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Sync up to 20 million rows in each record type We're committed to helping your data fabric scale with the needs of your organization. That's why we continue to increase the amount of data you can sync in each record type—now up to 20 million rows! Make record fields more powerful and reusable Record fields make it easy to build and interact with your enterprise data, and now, you can further accelerate your app design by adding reusable validations and interfaces to your fields. This allows you to not only efficiently reuse record field configurations and visualizations throughout your application, but also helps to improve long term application maintenance. Just make a few one-time configurations to your existing record fields and add reusable interfaces or common validations. In a few clicks, you can generate or add reusable user interfaces that define how a record field should look when used in different kinds of interfaces. And, you can configure common or routine validations that will automatically evaluate every time your record field is used. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Then, simply call the reusable validations and UIs for your record field directly from an interface—no further configurations required! These "set once, use anywhere" record field configurations are a breeze to maintain and allow for convenient, reliable, and uniform reuse. New functions to support record field validations With our enhancements to record field configurations, you can configure common validations on your record fields directly from your record type and use them throughout your application. We've created the new a!applyValidations() function to help you reference and expand upon those validations in interfaces and expressions. Just use the function in any validations parameter to easily reference the pre-configured validations for one or more record fields. You can even use the function to add in ad-hoc validations that are specific to your interface or expression. And to save you a step, we'll even go ahead and automatically add the a!applyValidations() function to the input interface you generate for your record field. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Be sure to also check out the slew of other supporting functions we created to help you get the most out of your reusable validations: a!isBetween(), a!startsWith(), a!endsWith(), and a!isInText(). Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Quickly connect to your data sources This release, you can curate a list of commonly used data sources to speed up your record type configuration and instantly connect to the data you need. With just a click, you can add any connected system to the data source shortcut list and provide a custom name that's easily identified by you and other developers. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Pick and choose suggested relationships It's already easy to relate enterprise data using suggested relationships to your record types. Now, we're giving you the flexibility to individually pick and choose which suggested relationships you want. We've also simplified the generated relationship names so they no longer include the application prefix—making them easier to read and reference in your apps. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Modernized layouts for generated record actions Last release, we gave generated record actions a fresh look and feel. This release, we're introducing even more improvements to help you make beautiful interfaces quickly and easily. Now, newly generated record action interfaces will take advantage of our new and improved form layout, header templates, and new dialog size options, so your actions have a modern look and feel the moment they're generated. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close We've also continued making improvements to our smart data generation capabilities. If your record type includes a Document field, we'll automatically include a file upload component. And, if the record type has a one-to-many relationship with other record types, we'll automatically generate the record actions using the brand new wizard layout component. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close These new tools help you generate better UIs tailored to your data types, so you can create a sleek and efficient experience for your users with even less development time. More flexible dialog sizes This release, we're making it easier to create more functional and modern UIs with more sizing options in record action dialogs. Now, you can control both the height and width separately to create dialogs that fit your specific needs. We've also updated the default dialog sizes for record actions, so your new record actions will have a narrower width by default. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Easily access interfaces from the record type We're helping you save time during development by making it easier to access record action interfaces. Now, when you view your record actions, you'll see a link to the start form interface for each action, so you can easily find your interfaces right from the record type. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Support for OAuth 2.0 credentials in data sources and custom JDBC connected systems We're excited to give you new authentication options to connect your data sources to Appian. Starting this release, you can now use OAuth 2.0 with your SQL Server and Oracle connected systems, as well as custom data sources. Our new dynamic duo: the control panel object and the Control Panel workspace This release we are introducing the control panel object to work in tandem with the Control Panel workspace. The control panel object allows low-code developers to easily define the configurations that no-code developers and business users can make in the Control Panel workspace. The control panel object is a set of low-code configurations that lay the ground-work and make up the underlying structure of the applications configured in the Control Panel workspace. Each control panel object contain key foundational information about the applications configured in the Control Panel workspace. This can be anything from the terms to use for cases, to how to organize the overall data structures, or even what types of forms and interfaces can be used. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close And, control panel objects are so highly configurable that they allow you to add customized pages and functionality to the Control Panel in just a few easy steps. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Seamlessly manage objects and security Not only do control panel objects help you to organize configurations for the Control Panel workspace from the start, but they also help you secure and manage them. With built-in security configurations, you can easily set which users and groups have access to the categories and types that make up the structure of your Control Panel applications. For example, if you created categories for different departments, you can set security so that only the business users in each department can access the data, forms, and configurations for that category and its types. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close The control panel object makes managing your Control Panel applications easier by acting as a go-between to connect the front-end configurations made by business users and the objects generated in Designer to support them. This helps to maintain the relationship between the records types and interfaces and the no-code experience of the Control Panel workspace, keeping them all connected and up-to-date. With the combined capabilities of control panel object and the Control Panel workspace, you can empower both low-code and no-code developers to collaborate on mission-critical applications that can continually adapt to meet your business needs. Case Management Studio This release, we're continuing to improve your case management applications and experiences with big updates to Case Management Studio. New look and feel for Case Management Studio Alongside the release of the Control Panel workspace and control panel object in 25.2, we are excited to release Case Management Studio 2.0! This major release includes a complete integration of the Control Panel workspace and object framework into the Case Management Studio application suite, fully replacing the Studio site functionality. This means that the Case Management Studio you know and love is not only getting feature upgrades, but an entirely new modern look and feel. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close The expanded functionality can be leveraged in both the control panel object and the Control Panel workspace. First, your low-code developers will use the new control panel object that comes out-of-the-box with Case Management Studio to lay the groundwork for the configurations your business users can make in the Control Panel workspace. Then, your business users in the Control Panel workspace will build off of that foundation to configure the overall organization, data, interfaces, workflow, and more for your Case Management applications. Check out some of the new and improved features in Case Management Studio 2.0! The form builder experience is more powerful than ever, with even more data at your fingertips. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close You now have more control over your data structures and organization with optional use of categories. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close You can more easily add additional customized pages for business users to the Control Panel workspace. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close To learn more about these updates and how Case Management Studio and the Control Panel work together, see the Case Management Studio, the Control Panel workspace, and control panel object documentation. Send emails from your workflow–no human intervention required Last release, we introduced email templates and the Send Email task type for your case management workflows. This release, we're expanding this functionality with the addition of the Send Email workflow automation. This new workflow automation allows you to send emails directly from a workflow–no human intervention or review required! Now, you can combine the ease and standardization of email template reuse with the efficiency of automation in just a few clicks. Additional condition options for task assignment rules This release, we're continuing to help you get the most out of your workflows with two new additions to the conditions for task assignment rules. You can now select Task Assignee and Group Task Assignee as part of the condition for task assignment rules, helping you to create robust conditional logic and more easily adapt to a wide range of scenarios in your workflows. Sites and portals Appian enables you to create superior, seamless experiences across desktop and mobile devices for all your users using portals and sites. This release, we're bringing more troubleshooting information to site objects and displaying more characters in site and portal page names. Troubleshoot faster with more visibility into site errors The new Troubleshoot tab in the site object provides details about errors and allows developers to quickly look into issues without leaving the object. No need to check logs—the error details are right where you need them, in an easy-to-read format. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Even more customization for portal domains This release, we're enabling you to configure up to 10 custom domains that can be shared among your portals. Have separate portals for registration and customer service? Now you can publish one at registration.portal.com and the other at service.portal.com. Being able to use more domains means you have more flexibility to maintain consistent branding across your portals. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Longer page names in sites and portals Starting this release, you'll be able to use longer page names in sites and portals without them being truncated, allowing you to provide more context to your users at a glance. Interfaces Appian makes it easy to build beautiful, information-dense interfaces that you can use throughout your applications. This release is filled with tons of impactful improvements, including reusable record field UIs, major improvements to forms, including a new wizard layout, viewing all of your branding configurations directly in an interface object, and more. Elevate your form experiences with wizards, title bar templates, fixed buttons, and more! We're excited to introduce major improvements that will take your form designs to the next level. A new wizard layout, expertly designed title bar templates, fixed buttons, and several input component updates will allow you to elevate the user experience for all your forms. Make magic with wizard layout In mission critical applications, you may need a lot of information from your users. To make this easier, we're introducing a wizard layout to help you turn your complex forms into clean, modern multi-page wizards that are both beautiful and easy to use. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close In just a few clicks, you can configure this out-of-the-box component with the milestone style and title bar templates of your choice. And, we'll handle all of the step navigation logic for you, so you can create a simple, streamlined experience for your users in a snap. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Introducing configurable title bars for form and wizard layouts This release, we're excited to announce title bar templates for form and wizard layouts, giving you more flexibility to customize form titles. These expertly designed templates allow you to add formatted text, background colors, icons, and images to the top of your forms with just a few configurations. And, you can even create custom title bars using card and billboard layouts. We've also added the ability to quickly switch between the different title bar options in design mode with just a click. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close And, a new AI-powered suggestion button can even provide ideas for relevant icons based on the title bar text. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close For more information about how we've evolved form layouts to work with title bar templates, see the evolution release note. Fix buttons to the bottom of forms and wizard layouts We're also introducing a new fixed button parameter to form and wizard layouts. Now, you can determine whether you want your buttons at the bottom of the page or directly after the page content. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Freshen up your designs with updated interface templates This release, we've also refreshed our interface template options to showcase our most up-to-date best practices, making it a breeze to build sleek, user-friendly experiences. We've updated our form templates to take full advantage of the latest form and wizard capabilities, as well as streamlined the page template selections to help you find the right starting point for your designs. And we've also enhanced our Request Form and Short Form example templates, to help you get up and running quickly. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close File upload improvements This release, we've enhanced the file upload component to make the user experience more flexible and efficient. Users can now quickly copy and paste files directly into the upload component. And, we've improved the blocked file extension behavior to remove unexpected validations. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close More text formats in the styled text editor component In this release, we're adding even more utility to the styled text editor component. Now, users can apply superscript and subscript formatting to text in the editor. Control the position of radio buttons and checkboxes We're giving you another option for displaying radio buttons and checkboxes. A new choicePosition parameter allows you to choose whether to align radio buttons and checkboxes to the left or right of choice labels, providing more design flexibility. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Reference reusable record field UIs in interfaces With our enhancements to record field configurations, you can create reusable UIs that define how a record field should look when used in read-only and input interfaces. Then, you can easily pop them right into an interface! Just use a record type field reference in your expression to call the record field UI directly into the interface. And, you can even reference record field properties to use your record field display name and description throughout your app. By improving both the ease and speed of configurability, we're making reusing your most record field configurations a breeze. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Seamlessly view site and portal branding configurations in interface objects Branding configurations in site and portal objects unlock a world of customization possibilities for your end user experiences. Now, you can see all your branding configurations come together without ever leaving the interface object. The new branding preview in interface objects empowers you to instantly visualize how your interfaces will look with all of your branding options. No need to switch to the site or portal to see the final styling, just select the site or portal from your interface and watch as the input and dialog shape, button shape and capitalization, and accent color are all applied. And that's not all. Now, when you configure a custom typeface in the Admin Console, we'll automatically use that typeface in all of your interface objects. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Even more performance improvements for interface objects Last release, we improved performance for interface objects. This release, we're continuing that mission with even more performance improvements. You'll notice speedier performance when working in interface objects, such as when dragging and dropping elements, configuring parameters in design mode, and viewing updates in live preview. New stamp shapes We've added a new shape parameter to the stamp field component, giving you more ways to display decorative icons and text in your interfaces. Now, your stamps can be round, square, or square with rounded corners. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Updated milestones In this release, we've added some new enhancements to the milestone component. Milestones can now show longer step names, so you can use exactly the text you need to help orient your users. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Appian Mobile Appian Mobile enables users to monitor, collaborate, and take action on their applications, all from the convenience of their iOS and Android device. This release continues our mission to provide a reliable and trustworthy mobile experience. Persisted end user experiences in Appian Mobile When a mobile device closes the Appian Mobile app in the background, users will now be able to pick up right where they left off. Mobile operating systems often close apps running in the background to optimize resources. Now, if the operating system closes Appian Mobile, users who were working on a site page or offline-enabled task will be taken back to the place they were working for seamless continuity of their work. Print actions and tasks directly to PDF on Android Previously available only on iOS devices, the print to PDF option is now also available on Android. This button gives users the ability to quickly and easily share forms in just a few taps. Audio recording available on Android devices Previously only available on iOS devices, audio recording is now available on Android devices. Now, when users capture video in Appian Mobile on Android, the app will prompt the user to allow audio recording. iOS18 navigation improvements for iPad devices Starting with this release, when users access Appian Mobile on iPads that are on iPadOS 18, they'll notice some subtle changes to the navigation experience. Now, site pages will display in the app header via a floating tab bar, making better use of the larger iPad screen and aligning with the new iPadOS navigation design. Scroll or drag to pan · ⌘+/⌘− to zoom · Esc to close Administration Each release, we continue to give administrators more control over how they manage, secure, and administer their Appian environments. This release, we're giving admins the option to configure additional OpenID Connect providers, the tools to unarchive processes without leaving Appian, and new endpoints for the Cloud Database Management REST API. Set up multiple OpenID Connect providers Organizations often use more than one identity provider to manage user information across their enterprise. With this release, Appian now supports multiple OpenID Connect (OIDC) providers in each environment. Any user in a configured OIDC provider can sign in to Appian using their enterprise credentials. Check out OpenID Connect User Authentication to get started. Unarchive processes in the Process Activity view Running the archive process script directly on the file system is no longer necessary to unarchive processes. Instead, you can now use the Process Activity tab to unarchive any archived process with just a few clicks. For Appian Cloud customers with sites created on 21.1 or later, you'll spot an Unarchive button right away. If your site was built on an earlier version of Appian, contact Appian Support to enable this feature. And for self-managed customers, you'll just need to take a couple extra steps to enable the ability to unarchive your processes. Manage EDP read access control programmatically Enhanced data pipeline (EDP) lets you retrieve data from your Appian cloud database and use that data in other systems in your enterprise. Starting with this release, you can use two new REST endpoints to manage the database user's read-access privileges to individual tables or whole schemas—making it easier than ever to automate your app deployments as part of your DevOps process. Graceful shutdown The graceful shutdown period for Appian on Kubernetes and Linux self-managed deployments has changed from 60 seconds to 65 minutes to accommodate system work currently in progress. However, Appian on Kubernetes users can continue to customize their wait period with the grace-period parameter. Resolved general issues AN-309633 - Medium Fixed an issue causing incorrect number of borders in Card group layouts on mobile. AN-308376 - Medium Skipping the warning about Appian authentication password expiration will now redirect users to the Appian Mobile app. AN-301527 - Medium Logging out of Appian will now redirect native authentication users to the correct login page, even when the environment has an OpenID Connect provider enabled and Remember IdP for non-SAML users selected. AN-313750 - Low Fix version comparison for process reports to reflect changes between versions. AN-308572 - Low Improved the performance of sites that have pages with visibility configured as an expression. AN-308518 - Low User Management audit log now includes users created using the Create User Smart Service. AN-304545 - Low Error message is shown when user attempts to edit an invalid value on the Data Preview tab in a record type AN-304126 - Low The tomcat-stdOut.log no longer shows an incorrect warning for site page width. Resolved accessibility issues AN-312103 - High Fixed an issue where contents within the Edit Profile dialog were not reflowing at high zoom levels. AN-311529 - Low Improved the accessibility of changing user and cover photos by updating the save button wording to be more clear. AN-302241 - Low Added additional supported values for the text field input purpose parameter. Evolutions The following functions, components, or smart services have newer, improved versions in this release. Existing, old versions in your applications will continue to function normally, but will be renamed on upgrade to indicate that they are older versions. As always, make sure you are using the right version of the docs for your version of Appian. See Function and Component Versions for more information. Form layout The form layout was evolved to implement the new title bar templates. We've made the following changes to parameters to accommodate the new title bar design experience, as well as to align the parameters with wizard layout. Change type Original parameter New parameter Added titleBar None Removed label None Removed instructions None Renamed formWidth contentsWidth Renamed showHeaderFixed isTitleBarFixed Renamed skipAutoFocus focusOnFirstInput Renamed showButtonFooterDivider showButtonDivider Additional updates: We've reorganized the parameter order and design view and introduced dynamic defaults for certain parameters. The default behavior for contentsWidth, showTitleBarDivider, and showButtonDivider parameters will automatically adapt based on if the form is displayed in a dialog or not. The title bar divider's width depends on the isTitleBarFixed parameter: If isTitleBarFixed is false, the divider's width matches the content width. If isTitleBarFixed is true, the divider extends to the full width of the screen or dialog. Deprecations The features listed below are deprecated and will be removed in a future release of Appian. Do not begin using deprecated features, and transition away from any prior usage of now deprecated features. Where applicable, supported alternatives are described for each deprecation. Quick Apps Designer The Quick Apps Designer is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Applications created using quick apps will continue to function. You can speed up your application development by using Appian's data fabric features to quickly generate database tables, record actions, and record views. And starting this release, customers with Case Management Studio and select solutions can empower business users to configure data and interfaces using the new control panel. End-of-support for older versions of RDBMS The following relational database management systems (RDBMS) either have already reached or are approaching the standard end-of-support dates set by their vendors and will no longer be supported in a future release of Appian. Customers are strongly advised to upgrade to a newer supported version. RDBMS End-of-support date MariaDB Server 10.5 16-Jul-2025 IBM DB2 v11.1 for Linus, UNIX, and Windows 30-Apr-2025 Removals The features listed below have been removed from Appian and can no longer be used. End-of-support for older versions of RDBMS The following relational database management systems (RDBMS) have already reached the standard end-of-support dates set by their vendors and are no longer supported in Appian. RDBMS End-of-support date Aurora PostgreSQL 12 (starting at 12.8.0) 28-Feb-2025 Aurora PostgreSQL 4 28-Feb-2025 End-of-support for older VPN encryption algorithms The following VPN encryption algorithms will be reaching end-of-support and are no longer supported in Appian Cloud VPN tunnels. Customers are strongly advised to upgrade to newer supported algorithms as soon as possible. Authentication Algorithm / DH Group End-of-support Date (FedRAMP environments) End-of-support Date (Non-FedRAMP environments) sha1 13-Sep-2025 30-Sep-2025 dh2 or modp1024 13-Sep-2025 30-Sep-2025 dh23 13-Sep-2025 30-Sep-2025 dh24 13-Sep-2025 30-Sep-2025 Public IP Addresses over DNS-based VPN Routing Appian Cloud offers the ability to use VPN tunnels to connect your self-managed resources to your Appian Cloud environments. If you are using a private DNS server accessed over the VPN tunnel to resolve FQDNs, and the IP addresses to which the FQDNs resolve are public IP addresses, traffic to the public IP addresses will now be sent over your VPN tunnels. Previously, Appian Cloud sent this traffic over the public internet. Sending this traffic over the public internet by default is no longer supported. If you believe you are impacted by this end-of-support announcement, please reach out to Appian Support to determine if there is a workaround that can be applied to your VPN configurations. Feedback Was this page helpful? SHARE FEEDBACK Loading...
