Ability to change name of process / business object and retain references

[Billy.Kidney]

When a process or business object's name is changed all references to that process or business object are lost.

This great affect reusability and results in artifacts with improper names to retain references.

Proposed Solution:
Artifacts have a NAME (static for DB), LABEL (shown in GUI for ease), and DESCRIPTION. This will allow artifacts to have their LABEL updated easily without breaking any references to that artifact.

[RobertKiser1]

This is a good idea.  Processes and Objects already have a "processid" column within the "BPAProcess" table that doesn't change when changing the name, I've always wondered why the link is broken when renaming.  All the links and references should be off the "processid" GUID, but it appears name is important too for some reason.

[MelanieGiuliani]

Hi William,

Thanks so much for submitting your idea! We are moving it into the Under Consideration status while we route the idea through our internal review process. 

We will update you as your idea moves along the lifecycle.

Thank you!
Melanie 

[acilinska]

When object name is changed then in all processes where this object was used it no longer exists in the actions and it should be again added for all the missing actions. It could be the same as for process - when the name is changed it still exists in other processes where it is used as it is referenced by ID I guess.

[HarshitRawat]

This is a much demanded enhacement for object names , data items and i believe ideas already exist for this. 
However I am not sure about the statuses of those ideas

[RajeshSrirambha]

I strongly support this Idea. When we change the name of the object or actions name in the object they should auto change wherever they called (from any process's or object's action stages). The same goes with Data Items. 

It save's us from unnecessary troubles and save's lot of time.

[acilinska]

There is a workaround for it if you do it correctly - to open exported object/process in text editor (as it is xml file) and then replace all "old object name" with "new object name", and then import it back, however all the inputs and outputs are not always assigned, so there is still work to do and you need to fill them in or use again the replacing. 🙂

[PvD_SE]

A Right-Click in Studio and then select the 'Rename' option would indeed be very nice to have.

[HarshitRawat]

Till we wait for this feature to be implemented , there is a small trick to rename an existing Process/Object.  
For Objetcs - Go to initialize and double  click on info stage,  and change the name and save it
For Processes- Go to Main Page and double  click on Info Stage and save it 
By following the above steps your exisitng processes/objects would be renamed..
However as what this idea is about renaming them break their references wherever they are being used

[MelanieGiuliani]

Hi @acilinska,

Thank you for your idea! This is very similar to a previously posted idea, which can be found here: https://community.blueprism.com/ideas/viewidea?IdeationKey=e8dc3ccd-5401-4595-b7bd-e8d7ca792bd1. As such, I've marked this idea as Duplicate in order to keep all comments, votes, and lifecycle tracking in one place. Please direct all further conversation and votes to this idea.​

[robert.nicklin]

Hello @William Kidney,

I have updated your idea to "Planned" and adjusted the linked product from "Blue Prism Product" to "Process Repository" as this idea will be delivered as part of this new component. For more information on the roadmap for Process Repository, please see the August 2022 roadmap webinar, available here.

Regards,
Rob​