Hi there, I'd like to suggest an idea to improve BP Studio. It is just about the visibility of texts in the BP Process/Object Studio.
If you see the attached screenshot, the selected row’s values’ fonts don’t have enough visibility.
Especially, when we’re providing training sessions to our partners/customers, people who sit down further from the screen are hard/unable to see the texts.
I attached a ppt file to show more cases. Please check the attachment.
Thank you. Seungjei. seungjei.jang@blueprism.kr from Blue Prism Korea
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There are dozens of Excel functions that are not included in BP out-of-the-box but can be added with the use of a simple enumerator in the code. For example 'Save as CSV' changes wb.SaveAs(filename) to wb.SaveAs(filename,6) Explode the number of actions available to users by including these enumerators as variables in the interface or passing the variable to the action OOTB - rather than forcing users to re-code the VBO statements individually.
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Many VBOs appear to be unnecessarily set to a run mode of "exclusive". If any of these VBOs are used in a process or object that is exposed as an API, we will be limited to a single instance at any given time on that resource. In order for us to advance our callable process/object capabilities, we need the flexibility to run multiple instances on a single machine. The following is a list of VBOs that have an "Exclusive" run mode:
Email - POP3/SMTP
MS Excel VBO
MS Excel VBO - Extended
MS Outlook Email VBO
MS Outlook Email VBO 6.10.4
MS Word VBO
System - Active Directory
Utility - Encryption
Utility - HTTP
Utility - JSON
Utility - Numeric Operations
Utility - Network
Utility - Screen Capture
Webservices - OAuth2.0
Webservices - REST
I think the MS VBOs could at least be reduced to "Foreground" run mode(as they might temporarily require exclusive use of those applications), but all of the others should be changed to "Background" as there is no discernable reason that multiple instances couldn't be running at the same time. If we need to make them more exclusive, that should be our choice in our local environments, but there's no need to be so restrictive as a platform default setting.
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Right now in Blue Prism 7.0, you can filter for sessions in the Control tab, but you can't view all the results. There is no 'next page' button or way to see results that do not fit on the first page of results. The best you can do is change your sorting between ascending and descending, but if the result you want is in a middle page (not the first or last page of results), you can't access it. Others have suggested more custom filtering on the Control tab, which would also solve this issue. At the very least, I am asking for the ability to click through multiple pages of results when I filter for sessions in the Control tab.
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some findings on how task order is defined by BP can be found in my comment below In BP client Control tab, Schedules are ordered by their names and tasks according to their creation. Schedules can be arranged by structured names. The order of Tasks is defined by when they have been created that makes organizing Schedules unnecessary difficult over time. eg: Schedule: (numbers show the logical order) - Login (1.) - Process (2.) - Logout (3.) Now when adding a second process to be executed after the existing one it would look like: Schedule: - Login (1.) - Process (2.) - Logout (4.) - Process2 (3.) It would be better to order the Tasks by their names so order can be easily amended as needed by prefixes in their names.
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Capture Creates a lot of value for creation of new PDDs and Digital workers, but how about the already delivered solution? Running a large-scale (now 5 Y old) CoE come with some documentational challenges.
What if there was a "plugin" which was activated to create a PDD. Using a combination of the BP process logic and screenshots and magically created "PDD" like output. Which could be used to actually see what the robot is doing - all to avoid the problem of outdated PDD.
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I'd like an option to populate Interact dropdowns with information from the Active Directory (like employee name and ID). I have a use case where form users need to pick an employee from a list of all employees in a dropdown field, then my process would update a field in another application using the selected employee ID. Due to the large volume of employees and the fact there's already an Active Directory integration planned, I would like to see these dropdown values available without going one by one add each employee as dropdown option (It also looks like there's an idea planned to add more dynamic options for dropdowns, which is related. It would be great to be able to calculate how these values are shown as a dropdown option and received as an output when getting queue data from a response. ie. using BP calculations like [Active Directory.Employee Name]&" ( "&[Active Directory.Employee ID]&" ) " to show John Smith ( 12345 ) and output the same, but not as critical since the output can be calculated as shown here in the process. Currently, when getting queue data, it would pull the selected information out with hyphens ie. john-smith-12345)
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Status:
Under Consideration
Submitted on
27-04-22
01:27 PM
Submitted by
BharadwajJanag1
on
27-04-22
01:27 PM
Dears,
Currently Blue Prism does not have the option to schedule a process on Nth working day in a month/Week. As a result, one has to look for work arounds to schedule in that way. It will be great to have that option by default under the schedules. Thanks.
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When a breakpoint is reached in Design view, I typically need to start stepping through the stages after it. I need be able to see the stages immediately surrounding that stage. Having to manually drag the breakpoint notification out of the way every time gets tedious.
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Status:
Needs More Info
Submitted on
25-04-22
06:09 PM
Submitted by
kmcdowell
on
25-04-22
06:09 PM
Can Interact support a "What You See Is What You Get" editor? Is there any plans to add feature like this?
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When is this feature going to be added? Allow users to fill in a form via a table or grid. This feature would allow for quicker user input.
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When is this feature going to be added? This would be a tremendous new feature! Its been close to a year.... Will it be release in 2022 or 2023? I'm forced to use other tools to do this since Interact doesn't provide or support more than 50 characters in a text field This is insane.
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Status:
Not Planned
Submitted on
25-04-22
03:02 PM
Submitted by
Walter.Koller
on
25-04-22
03:02 PM
I enrolled for a couple of training long time ago but never managed to even start most of them. I just kept adding them as I thought they are interesting. Now when i look at my courses I see two pages of courses that are already archived by the system but are shown as 'in-progress' or 'enrolled' to me. It would be nice to have the option to delete/remove courses from my My Activities list. I guess it would not be so relevant to see if I attended a BP training two year ago anyways.
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Hi,
As of now, the mails that are sent by Interact are only in English, even when the installation language is different (e.g. Spanish). It would be great to have the possibility to choose the language for the notifications or make it match the installation language, so those who cannot understand English can read them as well.
It would also be great to be able to edit the default email templates to add a custom page footer or company logos.
Thank you!
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Just now I wanted to find some information if there was a known issue for a particular problem and for what release and if this issue was resolved in one of the later versions. Unfortunately the documentation for 6.x and 7.x are split and the searches have to be done at least twice for each major version, but this is OK. However, the search did not bring any useful results as the search brought up three pages of any type of document about any topic. Since I am not able to know what is the exact search term for a possible issue, I have to try several words and phrases and view all search result pages. I also just now tried to search for a specific issue (BP-5825) but could not find it in https://bpdocs.blueprism.com/ which makes sense as this issue is documented here: Support Center | Blue Prism Portal 1. it would be nice to narrow down the search to known issues & their fixes to be able to easily verify the status 2. it would be nice to have one place to look for known issues and enhancements
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Currently, we can only use the action "Raise Submission" to create a unique form for an individual in Interact. We would like to have the capability to raise a submission for a unique form that can be filled out by multiple users. Our concern is for situations where we need to meet a specific SLA and the individual who the form is assigned to is on PTO and will not be able to fill out the form on time. This proposed feature would allow us to give multiple users the option to fill out the form or for the user to re-assign the form to another user.
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Could Blue Prism create APIs or AutomateC command line functionality allowing registering & unregistering + retiring & unretiring of runtime resources (VDIs) directly in BP DB.
These would help us work more efficiently with runtime resources while operating with non-persistent cloud VDIs whilst using them as BluePrism robots.
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I am using Credentials in different processes and sometimes even calculating the credential name and then getting the data. The "Find reference" button only works when the credential name is inputted directly into the "Get Credential" action with quotation marks but not when a data item containing the name is inputted in the action. I would like the "Find reference" to be able to handle when the credential name is stored in a data item and not direcly in the "get credential" action.
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Currently, you need to change the names of Environment Variables and Global Data Items in different parts of the process when you change it. It will be good to have if these variables will automatic adapt when you decided to rename them.
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With the growing amount of central components (BP V7) multiple Blue Prism environments are getting very complex and expensive. Apart from automating MS-Windows GUI there is no functional reason to stay entirely with MS-Windows products. Costs could be reduced by migrating some components to open source (database, operating system, application servers, ...) In addition with dynamic autoscaling of services ( e.g. microservices and kubernetes) needed resources can become demand driven. The upgrade process could be simplyfied with this approach, mayby even enabling zero downtime upgrades?)
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