The BP DB contains a lot of information that could useful for admin/BAU/audit/upgrade yet much of it cannot be extracted into a report. It would be nice to have a suite of reports made available. For example:
Asset inventory
All objects, pages, input/outputs, descriptions
Top-down dependencies, ie what objects, queues etc each process uses
Bottom-up dependencies, eg what is using each object, queues etc
Credentials - expiry date, last used date, access rights etc
Queue volumes
Asset 'last used date' (eg what is obsolete)
Activity reports
Session history including termination reasons
Change log per process/object/whatever
Activity log per resource (which machines are used most and least)
User reports
Users, roles, permissions etc
Activity per user
Current user activity (who's logged in now, who's got control room open etc)
System reports
All BP client system settings (for comparing environments)
Perhaps users could call stored procedures via Data Gateways instead of having to query tables directly.
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We are currently storing a lot of detail around the emails ingested by Capture in the Chorus database (AWD061/62/63) but there is no current mechanism to display this information holistically within the Chorus Portal. This means that the data are currently only available by SQL query (the GetCapturedEmail operation oh the AWD Email Service returns info from those audit tables, but only for a single email at a time). The main use case here would be an indicator of "failed" emails so that remedial action could be taken. I think the view would just need to be a filterable, pageable tabular list of ingested emails.
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Currently, robots can be manually executed only from the terminal where BluePrism is installed, but if there is a web-based console screen, it will not depend on the terminal, so please implement it.
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Status:
Duplicate
Submitted on
02-10-19
07:33 AM
Submitted by
SreejithSethuma
on
02-10-19
07:33 AM
As of now, to manage the code and versioning the inbuilt functionality of BP studio is being used. With that approach it is quite difficult to do an end to end DevOps. It would be great from the software cycle and project management perspective if there was an integration between BP studio and Git hub or svn
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We have to run local services for Rabbitmq as TLS is not supported and we can't use our external rabbitmq servers. Could you please advance this in product release?
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Hello, In the context of robotization of a Java application of our customer who has migrated to OpenJDK , we have found that it is impossible to retrieve information from the tables of the application. Blue Prism returns us a message indicating that an overflow has occurred when trying to retrieve data to a collection. In addition to some errors of confusing origin when interacting with the application. When contacting support we have been told that Blue Prism currently does not support the use of OpenJDK. For this reason we request that you consider providing support for OpenJDK. This is not the first time this scenario has arisen in reference to OpenJDK. Thank you
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We would like to have the ability to conditionally style elements in UX Builder. This would help business users to seamlessly style the elements based on conditions without having to leverage on tech team for writing custom css scripts.
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Hi Team, It would be great if we can able to create Parent and Child relationship between two elements spied using Application Modeller. For Example we have Username Field and Label then if we can able to make Username Field as Parent and Field as respective child. Then we do not have to use Match index or some other technique. Blue Prism already have this feature for Surface automation. It would be great if we can get it for web based and Other application too. Many times we are facing issue for these scenarios. Note:- In Chrome I can achieve this using Real Xpath but if Blue Prism Has this feature explicitly then It would be great. So that we can use it across all the application. Most of the tools now a days these features are available. Thanks!
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In Blue Prism 6.4 for Object MS Excel VBO, actions Open, close and save Workbook, have hardcoded timeout value of 30 seconds. However, it has very little point to keep this value hardcoded. Instead a better approach would be to have this value as input. In case no value is passed, a timeout of 30 seconds can be initial value.
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We have a large number of resources. To become more efficient we try to run multiple processes on the same resource, however it is very hard to plan accordingly if the work volume is inconsistent and the schedule ends up running long. It would be nice to have an option to choose a dependent schedule, or a "next in line" schedule that can be kicked off after a specific schedule completes. Additionally in the dependent schedule you could see what schedule is referencing that schedule. I feel this would help reduce the number of resources that may be sitting idle for periods of time in between schedules, and also prevent schedule collisions.
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The situations we confront on a daily basis needs more indeep material to be provided by BP. This material is not for advanced users. Only for kids who want to play. How you can run a class that has to write in console a string, while you can't bend the console with BP from the code stage like you say in the doc. You can run the cmd and inside cmd you can type arguments etc. The doc from your site is SF.
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I would like to see a feature where the links change color so as to show what was the path taken when we ran the process. This would help in analyzing a long flow , instead of monitoring it while it runs. Please refer to the attached representative image
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What I have in mind is to add a function to include all the dependencies that a process has (objects, credentials, env. variables, etc...) without having to drag every single one to the release window manually.
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Just as I update the version when the system changes, I want you to know what has changed when the contents of the ROM are updated. If there is a place where information is published collectively about the update of ROM, please let me know. ===== ご担当者様 システムのver更新だけではなく、ROMの内容が更新された場合もどこが変わったのかがわかるようにしていただきたいです。 ※まとまっている場所がございましたら、ご教示頂きたいです。
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Status:
Needs More Info
Submitted on
03-02-23
09:32 PM
Submitted by
MariaMutuc
on
03-02-23
09:32 PM
The Assigned Work Search in Chorus doesn't bring up old work items. For example, a user has old work items in the work list. If for some reason, this user has to be deleted from Chorus, system doesn't allow deletion since there are old items in the work list. Doing the Assigned Work Search only brings up work items for a recent date parameter. The date parameter for the Assigned Work Search needs to modified to include all items that are in the user's work list.
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No automation is complete without Mobile Device Automation. Mobile Devices already make up more then 50% of the market share, compared to desktop computers, and are part of our daily life.
Can we also introduce Mobile Device Automation as part of the platform, supporting Smartphones or Smart-Devices currently on the market. And it should not matter if they are emulators, real devices, or if they are in your local network, connected via USB or in the Cloud - as we leverage appium.io . Something which we can directly interact with trough some VBO or modeller and we can create Workflows the same way we do it for desktop automation, without the need to learn something new.
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Scenario:
BP is installed on 2 Virtual Machines. 1 is Application Server (AS) and the other is Runtime Resource (RR).
Runtime Resource is not logged into but has a windows task scheduler that runs on Virtual Machine START UP.
The task scheduler executes script below and brings up BP:
[Blue Prism Install Location]\automate.exe /resourcepc /public
Login Agent is used to login to the RR to execute a process.
This ONLY works when the process being executed is ran in the background and fails when the process has to run in the foreground.
Issue:
The script executed by the task scheduler launches BP in the background using specified credentials (if provided).
On login via the Login Agent, it does not own the foreground process (because the task scheduler script owns it)
Implications:
You cannot run processes in the foreground i.e launching Internet Explorer and capturing details or Notepad.
Work around / Solution:
Run the task scheduler on Virtual Machine startup as per usual.
Run the same script on user login (login via login agent) as a startup task/program in the startup folder. However, you will have to kill the previous process launched by the task scheduler.
Script will live here and will be executed on login:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp
Example commands for the script with 2 steps (variations also available in Power Shell):
taskkill /IM “Automate.exe” /F
[Blue Prism Install Location]\automate.exe /resourcepc /public
This will allow the user logged in via the login agent to own all the processes in the background and foreground.
Things to consider:
Task scheduler script is required to run on RR boot because it launches BP and makes the resource available to the AS and IC (interactive client) for the login agent to login
Why is this not a common issue? Because most Virtual Machines don’t shut down. If they do, someone physically logs in and manually launches BP (thereby launching it in the foreground)
Why did it happen to us? We’re running in a cloud environment and in order to optimize costs, Virtual Machines are turned on & off on a schedule so they don’t run 24 hours with no workloads
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If you're using Blue Prism Hub you must have come across this error. Rather than having a static message for any error "Something went wrong" is definitely a bad idea. All the apps have their logs Hub should have the ability to read the log and display the actual error on screen so the user can understand the issue. Right now troubleshooting the Hub, Interact, BPD, and Auth Server is a cumbersome task.
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Status:
Under Consideration
Submitted on
08-08-22
07:24 AM
Submitted by
LukasRamasauskas
on
08-08-22
07:24 AM
Idea: To allow custom port selection between web-client's and RabbtiMQ communication in deployment. Or at least allow pre-selected specific ports such as 5671. Reason: The default use of 5672 port for RabbitMQ and Decipher's web-client is treated as vulnerable and insecure from cleartext authentication mechanism. Detailed explanation: Current setup of Decipher v2.1 is not supporting 5671 TCP port as secure communication channel between Decipher server and Rabbit MQ server components. The use of 5671 port is part of increased security feature to solve vulnerability (as per guidance and reported BP support of this source Vulnerability in RabbitMQ : disable cleartext authentication mechanisms in the amqp configuration - Stack Overflow) . Unfortunately, v2.1, web client supports only 5672 port from RabbitMQ and no other ports are supported.
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Code Stages currently only support older language levels of .NET languages. Especially C# is currently only supported in v. 5.0, which was released in 2012. Modern constructs like initializing auto-implemented Properties were introduced in later versions but are features expected by programmers to be available per default. As BP is using the native .NET framework to compile Code Stages on runtime into dynamic assemblies, the latest version supported is C# v. 5.0. More recent versions can easily be supported by using Microsoft's Roslyn compiler platform, which is provided as a NuGet package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform/ It should even be possible to configure the language level dynamically so old code can be compiled in the same way as it currently is.
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