Quite often I need to copy something from the BP UI to use in an errand, a document, an email, ... The things I need to copy on a regular basis are:
Process name
Environment variable values
...
The easy way would be to mark the text to be copied in the UI, do a right-click and chose Copy (or a Ctrl+C). Unfortunately, the UI does not allow these, and other, texts to be marked and subsequently copied. This leaves only the 'visual copy and manual paste' option open. Note that I can copy at least the values of Environment variables in the Development environment, but the Production environment in View mode does not allow for this. The contents of most Environment variables do not really lend themselves for a manual copy and paste, as it is quite easy to make mistakes in things like long values for file-paths. Long ago I got fed up with the UI's inability to copy the process names, so I put these in an XL for more easy reuse. Now for my proposal: Could you make more elements in the BP UI available for marking and copying? Happy coding! --------------- Paul Sweden
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Hi Team , As documentation is a important part of every process journey . Documents like Technical Design , Solution design or Object design mostly contains information which we we are filling in our Blue prism database or is already a part of our .bprelease file(which is indirectly a xaml file). We can make this automated VBO which which can create a skeleton for us containing information like -
Release Details
All Process
All Objects
Credentials
Work Queue
Environment Variable
System Exception
Business Exception
Description of Processes and Object
Published Process
and many others like this , which can be again looked and corrected by developers if needed . This skeleton(draft) of files using this VBO will save a hell lot of time for any developer.
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When a user opens any GDL attachment the image gets saved to the users PC and after time takes up a lot of space. These images should automatically delete after a user closes the corresponding image.
The path that is used is
C:\Users\"USER_PROFILE"\AppData\AWD\Content Viewer\images
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Request to have CSS and XPath support added to all browser spying mode, so that element identification (or highlighting) can be achieved using any complex CSS or XPath selector. CSS is widely used in web development and is often the way how modern websites use to implement many UI features via JavaScript. Often a web element can be identified uniquely by the use of a single expression without the use of any other attributes. It can be a much faster way in narrowing down to an element on a very large web page with thousands of elements. It may also bring benefits to pages that are dynamic in nature, e.g. an element may not always appear in the same PATH hierarchy. I am aware that a user may specify XPath expressions against "Web Path" attribute when using Google Chrome and Firefox plugins. XPath however is not being supported by the IE mode.
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Status:
Reviewed
Submitted on
08-06-22
01:28 PM
Submitted by
Tejaskumar_Darji
on
08-06-22
01:28 PM
Hello Team, I've feedback for BPU and PDF guides. There are many courses on BPU that just shows slides of the PDF guide (e.g. BPC courses) A course should be video material with dynamic components, voice-overs, graphics, and charts to explain the tool and concept easily. Just having PDF guides broken into chapters and having it as a course does not sound to me like a good idea. If it is just a PDF/Slideshow for a user to read then he/she can simply read the PDF guide outside of BPU. We have many interactive video courses as well e.g Decipher Training, Blue Prism Foundation Training, etc. on BPU which are great. My point here is we should have a clear delineation between video courses and PDF guides and it should not be mixed up on BPU. All SCORM video courses should be on BPU. All the PDF guides are on a separate portal.
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Its pretty common that we save our work as we build automations. Also once we get to a point we deploy the automation to Production for example we dont really need to retain very old versions. For example lets say this is now the 4th release of a process to production I will not need to retain the work done for version 1 and version 2 but would like to keep version 3. At the same time I would not want to keep all the work in between version 3 and version 4 once all testing has been completed and confirmed it works. What I would recommend is giving a function in Blue Prism, with role permissions to keep this limited, to be able to delete old saves of objects and Processes. As each one of these saves keeps the xml data of the entire object / process larger ones can become a problem with loading and impact overall performance of the Blue Prism system use for developers. For example imagine if we could delete everything in development for this process that was not highlighted:
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Columns in the Available Processes, Resources, and Environment sections of the Control room seem to have a default width setting. These columns can be manually resized, but clicking away to Design Studio or another tab will cause them to go back to their default width. I propose that the resized width of these columns should be saved as columns like Name in Available Processes can be similar and the column needs to be resized to see the ends of the names. Also, the Connection column in the Resources section can often be outside of the window if the window is not full screen. I also feel that if a column has no information in it, it should only be as wide as the heading. For instance, the Members column under Resources in our environment contains no information, yet it's almost twice as wide as the header.
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Hello, Time to time VM resources and servers needs time for maintenance breaks. This can happen in scheduled (like once a month) or ad-hoc manner. It would be time-saving feature that you can schedule a maintenance breaks by resource / by pool.
Why?
- Currently every schedule needs to be expired manually and they need to put back when the maintenance break is over. - Normally these SQL server/ App-server maintenance breaks happens in night-time and they last from 1h up to 4h. - At environments, where are dozens or hundreds of schedules, this is taunting task to do on monthly basis. - By marking "maintenance break" for certain time slot -> Schedules do not try to start on that time interval. It will save manual work + night time runs will start after the marked maintenance breaks time slot is passed. - Process controller does not need to remember put the schedules back on next day.
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While debugging, if there is an option to export the current collection values to excel will help in analysing the collection data. Thanks!
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When selecting a Business Object from within an Action, it can become difficult to locate the specific one you are looking for if you are in an environment with a high number of objects. It would be extremely helpful if the list items within the Business Object dropdown field could be filtered.
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In BPv6.10 we have setup a multi-team-environment and access to certain folders is restricted; Sometimes users are getting an error message when trying to run a process in Control Room: "Failed to create session on [...] Cannot create session as user does not have execute permission on one or more of the processes dependencies". It would be very helpful to include in this error message which dependencies the user does not have permission for so that it can be fixed quickly.
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Currently (BP 6.9) when DB file size reaches its limit (or disk size or whatever might prevent writing new records) the BP environment might sill be up and running but new session logs are not created. We had the case when one of our DB was with size quota and when reaching the max size following happend:
release imports failed (with DB error message, which is fine and expected)
Scheduler kept running and executing processes
Sessions logs were not created
Audit logs were written (but probably because they still fit in existing free space)
In order to comply with IT security, internal audit and industry regulations, it is obligatory to have logs created in any case. Not being able to write logs should not be ignored by Blue Prism but users has to be notified. Possible options:
write the error to session log (in hope a single record would still fit in free space but as well very likely run into the same problem as the execution logs)
write an error in audit logs (might also run into no space issue but in our case it was still working. Bigger issue is the audit logs have to be actively monitored otherwise it will go unnoticed)
terminate the process and show it as terminated in Control (currently processes might still run or fail according to their logic and not because of DB issues)
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Probably terminating the execution is the most viable option before processes could run for days (in our case) without creating any logs.
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Please change 'Link to Asset' to link to the latest version of Decipher's assets. I would also like the content of 'Getting Started' to be compatible with the latest version. (The latest version is 2.3, but "Link to assets" will take me to the 1.2 page) The relevant page on Digital Exchange is below: https://digitalexchange.blueprism.com/dx/entry/3439/solution/blue-prism-decipher The sample process and documents are not compatible with 2.3, so I am having trouble figuring out how to use VBO to build a process in 2.3.
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When you are running several resources I find that I would want to add a comment in resource management that can show up in control room. Great way to comment on which resources are installed with which software, for example. Grouping can provide some of this, but sometimes you would need further information on which resource is meant to do what. If having < resources and this can be a small issue, but with 10+, especially if your IT sets up machines with random names that can not be altered, this can start off being an issue.
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Blueprism Interact Forms only supports the upload of one file per field. This will function most of the time if the user is required to only attach one or two files. However, if many supporting documents are required to be uploaded, current workaround is to request user to perform an extra step of archiving the files. As such, it will be good to have forms to be able to upload multiple files at one time, as what other form based solution can do.
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Our users would like to have displayed the number of items in the queue on the minimized card in Chorus Processor Workspace.
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Update the Document Delivery - Email screen to allow for Errored Emails from Communications to be edited and resubmitted. Today if an email from communications fails it requires manual intervention to reactivate the original work object and reject the request.
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Status:
Under Consideration
Submitted on
23-05-22
02:23 PM
Submitted by
Brian_Hesse
on
23-05-22
02:23 PM
Ability to code get work based on LOB values such as specific dealers. Another workflow system has a user coding screen that basically has a drop down that has the ability to add parameters to define their work selects and one of the parameters is the Dealer value, as an example.
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When cloning an item from a transaction, we currently have the option to link the newly cloned transaction to the case and bring over LOB’s but there is no option to also bring over the sources from that transaction.
You may argue that the source is already in the case however we may not be linking this item to the case. It may go to a different department or business unit for further processing, sending out correspondence, etc. and we don’t want to confuse the processor or spend time having to figure out what needs to be looked at. We often link the sources directly to the transaction in this case even if it’s already link to other transactions.
Furthermore, we have instances where many sources need to be attached which is time consuming. The case that prompted this enhancement was that 22 statements needed to be sent to a client and the processor needed to find and link all 22 manually. I will admit that the processor didn’t know they could drag and drop the sources which is less time consuming than manually linking them so they did learn something new in the process. In either case, it’s still time spent doing something that could be automated and more streamlined. It’s not going to a huge time saving or money saving enhancement, but it is a nice to have from an associate standpoint.
Therefore, it would be nice to have a checkbox in that same area on the cloning screen to be able to include the attached sources of the transaction you are cloning to the new transaction you are creating.
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