Hi
@Philip Deveau - this is the right place to provide the feedback, as this thread is being monitored by the team who are managing the response and used to inform our strategy moving forward, and I can confirm that we have taken note of the above.
Is there any more feedback that you wish to share in regards to this? If so, you can either share it here or if there is any sensitive information I can contact your account team and our experts to schedule a follow-up.
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Charlotte Kennett
Director, Global Customer Marketing & Community
Blue Prism
Europe/London
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-17-2022 14:24
From: Philip Deveau
Subject: URGENT NOTIFICATION RELATED TO USE OF CHROME AND EDGE BROWSERS AS PART OF BLUE PRISM AUTOMATIONS
Where can we provide the feedback?
My dev team used the inserting of java fragments whenever the traditional methods of working with web elements are to slow. currently we have 29 objects that utilize this in one way or another and 157 Processes (some are test processes). this is a huge impact to not be able to inject java fragments. having to upgrade is one thing but have to upgrade and still not being able to utilize java fragments is creating a lot of rework.
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Philip Deveau
Design Authority Lead
Sun Life
America/Toronto
Original Message:
Sent: 05-11-2022 09:07
From: Chris Strong
Subject: URGENT NOTIFICATION RELATED TO USE OF CHROME AND EDGE BROWSERS AS PART OF BLUE PRISM AUTOMATIONS
Thank you Dave,
You're right, the more insights and feedback we have from our community of what the JavaScript is currently being used for, means we can focus our engineers on the things that matter most (in a Manifest V3 friendly way).
For the benefit of the Community: I'm the Blue Prism Product Manager who is leading on these Manifest V2 Sunset challenge.
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Chris Strong
Product Manager
Blue Prism
Original Message:
Sent: 05-05-2022 13:35
From: Dave Morris
Subject: URGENT NOTIFICATION RELATED TO USE OF CHROME AND EDGE BROWSERS AS PART OF BLUE PRISM AUTOMATIONS
It's a requirement by the browser. Any RPA tool that currently uses something like Insert JavaScript Fragment will stop working in 2023. The documentation for Chrome Manifest V3 indicates there is still some way to invoke code dynamically, but I feel like it's still going to be a parameterized thing where the actual methods/functions have to exist already in the extension. I didn't look into it much because it doesn't matter much to me unless I can use it in Blue Prism.
In any case, our best bet at this point is to go ahead and give Blue Prism any feedback we've been holding onto specifically about workarounds we've put in place using Insert JavaScript Fragment or Invoke JavaScript Function, and then Blue Prism can attempt to make that be built-in functionality. I've already sent a fair amount of feedback, and I plan to do more testing and provide anything else as well that I come across, and I definitely encourage anyone else to do the same.
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Dave Morris
3Ci at Southern Company
Atlanta, GA
Original Message:
Sent: 05-05-2022 05:41
From: Amlan Sahoo
Subject: URGENT NOTIFICATION RELATED TO USE OF CHROME AND EDGE BROWSERS AS PART OF BLUE PRISM AUTOMATIONS
Java Script invoke is completely not supported by chrome and Edge browser or it is not supported by Blue prism only? Is there any other way we can invoke JavaScript to the browser?
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Amlan Sahoo
Senior RPA Consultant
WonderBotz
Original Message:
Sent: 05-03-2022 10:52
From: Charlotte Kennett
Subject: URGENT NOTIFICATION RELATED TO USE OF CHROME AND EDGE BROWSERS AS PART OF BLUE PRISM AUTOMATIONS
Google (Chrome) and Microsoft (Edge) have announced that they are changing the way third-party browser extensions are supported. On January 1, 2023, any browser extension that uses their Manifest V2 (MV2) standard will no longer operate.
In response to this announcement, Blue Prism has created a new browser extension that supports Manifest V3 (MV3).
Customers who currently use either of these browsers as part of their automations must upgrade to a version of Blue Prism software that offers MV3 support by the end of 2022 and test their automations as part of that upgrade process.
In addition, customers should be aware that with MV3, Google (and Microsoft) have removed the capability to perform JavaScript invocation or injection. Customers who utilize that capability must modify their automations to overcome the vendor-imposed restrictions.
To help our community of users identify if they are impacted by this announcement - our product team has provided a utility that will determine if you are affected by this issue. We recommend that you run this utility, which can be found here https://digitalexchange.blueprism.com/dx/entry/3439/solution/manifest-v3-impact-assessment-utility
If the utility identifies you are affected (i.e., Using Chrome or Edge / utilizing the JavaScript insert/invoke function) please make sure your organization completes the survey sent to them by their account or customer success manager.
Note: this survey is intended for end-users of Blue Prism only. If you haven't received this survey and feel that you should have, please contact your Blue Prism representative. Information for Blue Prism partners is available on the Connect Partner Portal.
Our upcoming releases (7.1 and 6.10.5) will contain Browser Extension support for Manifest V3.
[Note: these versions will also support those customers who could not apply the January 2022 Microsoft security patch update. Visit FAQs. http://portal.blueprism.com/customer-support/support-center#/path/-Featured-Articles/1784860762/-Solution-Windows-updates-from-11th-January-2022-causing-authentication-issues-in-Blue-Prism.htm]
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Charlotte Kennett
Director, Global Customer Marketing & Community
Blue Prism
Europe/London
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