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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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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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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Status:
Planned
Submitted on
24-06-21
04:37 PM
Submitted by
krishna.kodimurali9
on
24-06-21
04:37 PM
As we take up a new course and start learning it from LMS, most of the courses have theory/document to read on the same page itself which has too many pages. On every page we have to scroll up/down to completely read the data and then click on the next page, we have to repeat for all the pages for all the topics on that course, even after making it fullscreen mode. This makes the learning experience a bit awkward and irritating, This can be resolved if the course content layout made visible on a single page where we just scroll down smoothly all the pages till the end of that topic. instead of clicking next (>) for every page.
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No Doubt that Blueprism has the best-unattended automation capabilities, but it would be better if we can make running the attended bots easier- a simple console from where one can run their bots seamlessly. I believe this would be helpful and add more fun for process SMEs (Non-technical) running their bots.
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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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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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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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The current data item does not have a dictionary type (Associative array) . A single-row collection type can be substituted in some cases, but a smooth conversion to a JSON object can be difficult.
For example, if you try to convert a Blue Prism data item to JSON using Utility - JSON::Collection to JSON , only one data item can be represented as a collection data item, so the converted JSON will also be an array type.
There are many opportunities to map Blue Prism data items to JSON data when performing WebService integration, so I think there is a great advantage to introducing a dictionary type data structure.
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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 you have a larger application model and you're browsing through the element tree it would be nice if the application modeller would highlight the elements on the target application as you select the element. That way it would be easy to find the correct element (if you're not sure of it by the "should-be-self-evident-element-name"). You select the element on the tree, see the details on the right pane and the red rectangle on the application automagically (without pressing the Highlight button). If there's an error in the element attributes, the application modeller could highlight that by changing the element red on the tree view. If recognized, it could also show the conflicting attribute in red. BUT not pop yet another popup that needs to be OK'd before continuing. There's too many popups already in use. 😉
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When opening a CSD, launch a process, run a search, create a relationship, or create work in the modern processor workspace, it always opens to the same default window size, with is generally too small.
A good example of a process that is impacted is the Caller Authentication guided process, which is run by the GIDS phone team for every single phone call. Currently, the associate would have to resize the window for every single phone call.
There appears to be a couple needs here:
Windows for work objects should open to the size of the CSD or workflow form, or maximum window size.
When we resize a work type, it should retain that size for all instances of the same work type. Currently, Chorus only retains it for the specific instance that was resized.
Search results and relationship windows should retain their preferred size for new searches/relationships. Also, the default size should be at least large enough to display 3 or 4 items.
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Rather than have a process on a schedule set to periodically check a queue for data to work, add an optional work queue setting to automatically kick off a process on a designated resource/pool once there are items to be worked. This would remove the need for 24/7 monitoring processes which may quickly fill the various log tables, while lowering the traffic throughput to the controller/database. Work queues can be populated by new and/or existing feeder processes.
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Status:
Delivered
Submitted on
18-11-19
05:42 AM
Submitted by
vivek.kumar.goel
on
18-11-19
05:42 AM
I Would love BP to provide an additional tool to manage the CICD. I tried/propose to build a web/windows app based solution for it which has/should have the below features: 1- One time configuration for all environments (Dev,SIT,UAT,Prod). 2- A login option in line with the user's access to BP (planned) 3- As soon as you login, it shows you dropdown /list view of all the processes present in different environments. 4- Once you select any process in any environment: it gives you 2 options : a) Elevate to next Environment (Dev-->SIT, SIT-->UAT, UAT-->PROD). Once you click, all the dependencies are automatically moved/created in the next environment. b) Demote/Degrade to previous Environment/Disable Process 5- It also should provide an option to create/manage the credentials from this app There can be endless possibilities around this one stop CICD model as the admin team doesn't have to login to BP to move the processes and dependencies across environments Thoughts for discussion open.
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When doing an Undo to reverse a newly made change in a process or object, the focus remains on the current page rather than moving focus to the page where the Undo is executed. This is very confusing when doing a number of Undo's in a row in order to reverse a list of changes made. When executing an Undo, the Studio editor should move focus to the page where the Undo will be done. Happy coding! Paul Sweden
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I observed that the Click Action in Navigate stage doesn't works after spying any element(Like Button) in Browser mode in Blue Prism V6.9.0. The Spying works perfectly all the time, Even the verify action in Navigate stage also highlights the element perfectly at Run time but when executing the click action, it seems like clicking at the top left corner of the screen in that particular application. Please check for this possibility in current and upcoming versions.
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We are working on automating a few use cases through Decipher. For some of them, we don't require any manual intervention and therefore we need the Batch to bypass Data verification tab, whereas for others we need the manual intervention to be performed by the business users, and therefore the data verification tab needs to be turned on. However with the way the current configuration settings work, once we turn on the automatically skip data verify tab, the setting becomes applicable for all the batches. We would like the ability to enable/disable this setting based on the exact use case/batch as per the business requirements.
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Blue Prism should include recommended Process/object templates when we do fresh installation of blue prism. So that Users/Entry level developers will understand how a process should be designed. Other Vendors has already these type of templates eg. Background process Template, Robotic Enterprise Framework. It would be great, if blue prism provides these similar templates as per their standards.
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Instead of creating separate schedules, when a schedule is completed ,it should trigger another schedule.
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