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Submit Interact Form Without Installing Interact End Client

salman_shaik — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 09:39:00 GMT

Hi Team,

We have a use case where the business has to submit a form using Interact but they are not ready to install the Interact End Client in their system and that form is related to different clients across the regions so we can't install the Interact End Client application in all the client machines (across the different regions).

Do we have any other way to submit a form without installing Interact in a client machine?

Like by the help of browser we can login from any system using the interact credentials and submit a form from anywhere?

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Salman Shaik
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RE: Submit Interact Form Without Installing Interact End Client

zdenek.kabatek — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 06:26:00 GMT

Hello, Salman,

I am not sure that I understand your use case. You are saying to "install the Interact End Client in their system" but there is no Interact End Client. You install Interact on a server and clients/users are accessing it through the browser. You do not need to install anything on a user desktop. As long as users can login with their credentials they can access interact from anywhere, of course, taking account security then they may need to be on VPN but that is all.

Regards

Zdenek

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Zdeněk Kabátek
Head of Professional Services
NEOOPS
http://www.neoops.com/
Europe/Prague
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RE: Submit Interact Form Without Installing Interact End Client

salman_shaik — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 06:36:00 GMT

Hi Zdenek,

Yes, recently I got to know that no installation is needed from client end. but i have few questions here.

Authentication Server installation is mandatory for using interact?
Windows Server 2019 Data Center is compatible with Interact?

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Salman Shaik
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RE: Submit Interact Form Without Installing Interact End Client

zdenek.kabatek — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 07:01:00 GMT

Hi, Salman,

Authentication server is optional. It is only required if you intend to use SAML 2.0 authentication for your users. If you plan to use the build in authentication you do not need it, however, in case you plan to have hundreds of users you should go with this option.

Windows Server 2019 Data Center is supported. See this link https://bpdocs.blueprism.com/hub-interact/4-7/en-us/installation/install-hub-software.htm?tocpath=Hub%7CInstalling%20Hub%7C_____5

Regards

Zdenek

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Zdeněk Kabátek
Head of Professional Services
NEOOPS
http://www.neoops.com/
Europe/Prague
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RE: Submit Interact Form Without Installing Interact End Client

salman_shaik — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 07:17:00 GMT

Hi Zdenek,

Thanks for Replying. As we are using Blueprism 7.0.2, but the Authentication Server requires 7.1.2 or later so i was checking whether we can neglect the Authentication Server installation or not. So as per your response we can neglect it. As i can see in the software requirements document its mentioned as Windows Server 2019 only, does it apply same to the Windows Server 2019 Data Center as well?

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Salman Shaik
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RE: Submit Interact Form Without Installing Interact End Client

zdenek.kabatek — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 07:29:00 GMT

Hi, Salman,

I checked comparison of Server vs. Datacenter - Comparison - and I would expect to be working on both as I could not find any significant differences affecting Hub/Interact. You can give it a try on your platform or ask BP Support.

Regards

Zdenek

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Zdeněk Kabátek
Head of Professional Services
NEOOPS
http://www.neoops.com/
Europe/Prague
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RE: Submit Interact Form Without Installing Interact End Client

salman_shaik — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:07:00 GMT

Hi Zdenek,

Yes, there are no significant differences found between the two versions. I will check with BP Team for further clarification.

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Salman Shaik
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RE: Submit Interact Form Without Installing Interact End Client

Tejaskumar_Darji — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 16:20:00 GMT

I think you are looking for an online platform to submit the form which should initiate some sort of API call and create a BP work item in the machine.

If anyone wants to submit a form then definitely they need to have the whole setup installed on the machine, isn't it? because hub/interact is a complete off-grid local server setup that does not involve an active internet connection. There can be a VM and VPN setup but to access the interact URL you need to be in the intranet where it is deployed whether you are accessing it directly or via a VM.

I mean users can not just go to the URL, browse, and submit it from any machine.

Just saying, I might be wrong here. Not an infra expert.

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RE: Submit Interact Form Without Installing Interact End Client

salman_shaik — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 16:57:00 GMT

Hi Tejaskumar,

Yes, I am looking for the same whenever a user submits a form it should create an item in the Queue which was previously mapped to the particular form.

I am also having the same doubt without being on the same intranet how can a user from outside network can communicate with the Hub/Interact? But as per the Zdenek's statement its possible. I guess we have to provide SSL authentication for the URL which we create for the Hub in our environment.

I am not sure about infra setup how the Hub is receiving data from Interact Form.

I have another question here I will be creating a form which would be same for all the 100 users and assigning it to 100 users who are at different geographies if they want to submit the same form at the same time are they able to do it? else they have to come one by one?

I know that if a form is assigned to a group, then only one member from that group can access the form for others it will show that particular user is editing the form.

@Zdeněk Kabátek knows better on this!!!!

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Salman Shaik
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RE: Submit Interact Form Without Installing Interact End Client

Tejaskumar_Darji — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 07:36:00 GMT

The UX builder product that is part of Chorus is I guess an online web-based form builder.

That should fulfill today's requirement for the forms once it is available to use. Yet to explore more on that.

Check roadmap here

https://www.blueprism.com/products/ux-builder/

RE: Submit Interact Form Without Installing Interact End Client

zdenek.kabatek — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 07:46:00 GMT

Hi, Salman and Tejaskumar,

now I am a bit confused as I am not sure that I fully understand the use case.

Let me put it straight - if you want to create a public form available to anyone that is not to my knowledge possible at this moment. The use must have credentials to get into Interact.

The second use case - not public form but form for organization having 100 users. That is possible. If you create one form for all the users then every user will have after logging into Interact a tile. The tile represents a form which each of 100 users can fill independently and at the same time and click the submit button which would create 100 items in connected BP work queue.

I hope it is clearer now.

Regards

Zdenek

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Zdeněk Kabátek
Head of Professional Services
NEOOPS
http://www.neoops.com/
Europe/Prague
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RE: Submit Interact Form Without Installing Interact End Client

Tejaskumar_Darji — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 08:30:00 GMT

Yeah that really helps and clarifies to the point Zdeněk Kabátek

This is the conclusion.

RE: Submit Interact Form Without Installing Interact End Client

salman_shaik — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:11:00 GMT

Hi Zdenek and Tejaskumar,

I have an update on this, if we setup hub with default settings as provided in the installation guide then it will be available only in local and cannot be reached by anyone from outside but there are some steps which we need to follow during installation which setup it as a internal website. So, others can also reach it via a web browser.

Since it would be an internal site it may require a VPN for some users it completely depends upon your company's infrastructure.

I hope we got the conclusion now.

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Thanks & Regards,
Salman Shaik
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RE: Submit Interact Form Without Installing Interact End Client

zdenek.kabatek — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 06:36:00 GMT

Hi Salman,

well, I am not sure that I understand correctly the part about installing hub in local but the second part is correct. Within the organization hub/interact can be accessed by user or when users are on VPN.

Regards

Zdenek

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Zdeněk Kabátek
Head of Professional Services
NEOOPS
http://www.neoops.com/
Europe/Prague
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