If we would like to monitor processes on weekends, process which are time sensitive and if laptop is not accessible, monitoring process in control room via mobile device would be really helpful.
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Adding new environment variable is possible by importing a new release but if we want to update the values of environment variable then we have to do it manually. Right now it can't be done by importing the release. Please ignore if its already handled in new version of BP.
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Many organizations have their own PDD templates (logo changes, introductory text, font...). To increase the value of BP Capture, it would be useful to have the option to modify the template, so that the output could be used as-is (or require less updating). With the current situation, Capture is limited to providing screenshots, which the analyst then copies to their PDD template.
As an interim measure, it would be useful to have a technical specification of the used styles, since the style documents are available and could be modified manually.
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Status:
Needs More Info
Submitted on
02-12-19
07:12 PM
Submitted by
TylerGlenn
on
02-12-19
07:12 PM
The BP API dialog box builds html pages for each object selected from the dropdown. This is based on object contents. I suggest BP builds an API website (perhaps hosted on the local server) with foldering to match the Object studio folder structure, and have it automatically update documentation upon save/import of objects. Including referenced components in API (or allowing further customization) would be a plus, but a self-updating API website would be very useful especially for larger/federated teams.
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Today, Login Agent and Credential Manager are setup in the way that only single windows account is allowed to login and run processes on a particular PC. This is not optimal if your organization cares about Digital Worker separation of Duties. Let's say you have one worker performing HR duties and the other Finance. HR worker runs payroll on the weekends and Finance worker runs Mon-Fri. In today's world, we need to standup two VMs to accommodate. My proposal is to modify Login Agent and Credential Management to allow any number of windows accounts to login to a single VM one after another ( not at the same time ). This will allow for more efficient use of hardware and not affect licensing or RPA operations.
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The supplier of the webservices we are consuming have a lot of custom headers in the HTTP call itself, not in the HTTP Body where the SOAP headers lie. In the current functionality you can add username and password to the HTTP headers, but this doesn’t suffice for our need. We need to SHA256 hash the entire body and add this as a header, then we need to add several identifying headers like an organizationId, a userId, the IP we are sending the request from, a timestamp, the target destination, etc. Then all the headers must be packed into a string and RSA SHA256 signed and added as a final header. This is an implementation of this HTTP signature standard with a few specialized extra headers. If we don’t sign our http packets we don’t get through the security features of the back end system and are not able to run the soap webservice.
When I’ve been researching this I’ve found several forum posts that need something similar, i.e. this one but your support has confirmed to me that this isn’t possible. The solution we have chosen is to make a program and import it as a dll that acts as our own proxy that does all of this and sends the http call for us and return it into blue prism as a string. But then we must run the wsdl through an external tool to make our own SOAP calls, and parse the resulting soap xml ourselves and make our own error handling each time. This is time consuming and error prone, so it would have been very nice if we could have added these headers to the HTTP call similarly to how we can do it for REST APIs. Preferably we would have wished that you implemented the signing standard directly, that would have saved us from even more work.
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Blue prism product doesn't work with 64 bit drivers of OLEDB. We are upgrading to O365. There is an organization wide push to only use 64-bit installations. OLEDB is used to access excel and MS access database. OLEDB VBO is used as it provides efficient excel operations. Blue prism is unable to initialize connection with 64-bit OLEDB driver. This is a request to upgrade the product and provide support so that it works with 64 bit drivers. This is required to have true adoption of O365 and 64 bit. Refer below ticket for more details: Ticket: https://support.blueprism.com/helpdesk/tickets/208756
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It would be nice to have more options for scheduling. Accounting requires different schedules for different working days in the month ie. workday 2 or 4. Currently, I can only schedule on the first or last working day of the month.
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Enhancement request to have the ability for the system to tell you if the user being disabled is an owner of a case like it does with work in the worklist. Product Management provided the following feedback as to enhancements in the works:
We have User Admin requirements in play right now and this use case has not been addressed yet.
User Admin is undergoing enhancements to support the ability to DEACTIVATE a user ... which is different than just disabling their status.
Today, disabled is both a temporary and a permanent availability status.
When you intentionally disable somebody ... it is because you want to take away permissions (security, privileges, configurations for various teams - like a case team). We check today to handle assigned work. We don't check on any memberships anywhere else. This is a good use case.
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Status:
Planned-Later
Submitted on
09-08-23
11:03 AM
Submitted by
Tejaskumar_Darji
on
09-08-23
11:03 AM
As Blue Prism V7 is out now for a long time what are the plans for upgrading V6-specific exams to V7?
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Hi, it would be great to have more flexible GUI, examples includes: Work queue list always collapsed (on/off) Process list always collapsed (on/off) Schedule list always collapsed (on/off) Debug speed (slow/medium/max) etc... This could be even some hidden settings /advanced settings (or even some kind of config file would work). One of examples what benefit it brings - see attachment. Plain scheduler management would be a lot more convenient. Same goes for Release management.
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When only changing a description and there is no need to update any other credential settings for a credential in Blue Prism v6.8.0, after selecting OK to save and close the credential, nothing is actually saved to the credential. Upon opening it up again, the description has reverted to what it was before making the update. In our set up, we use the description field to record notes. Currently we have to change another detail, e.g. shifting the expiry date by one day, for the description update to be saved and viewable. Having a field that reverts to previous version despite being updated, plants the seed of doubt in the mind of the user: is Blue Prism robust enough? what else is not being updated? Presuming this is a bugfix, we're looking forward to the release that resolves this issue.
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When I check for changes to a process or object, I want a visual way to understand it, such as "Compare", and a way to understand it by writing like a list. (Example of the list: Input BB of XXX page AAA action has been changed to CC) ) ===== ご担当者様 作成したプロセスやオブジェクトの変更箇所を確認する際、Compareのように視覚的にわかる方法と、文字でわかる方法が欲しいです。(〇〇ページ◆◆アクションのInput△△が▼▼に変更されました など一覧で) よろしくお願いいたします。
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Status:
Needs More Info
Submitted on
19-11-19
08:14 AM
Submitted by
MarleenHordijk
on
19-11-19
08:14 AM
Our schedulers are starting at 05:30 AM every day. We come in the office at 08:30 AM. Sometimes a resource was not available at 05:30 for several reasons and the scheduler has not started. Becasuse we are living in the time of knowing everything at the time of when it happens via push messages on our phone, we would like to have this option also for the control room and the resources. If there can be an app via your smartphone (or another solution) that sends you a push messages when a resource is down for longer than an amount of time or for no reason, that would be helpful. Maybe this could be done for the proces status also? When one is in status of warning or teminated.
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It seems machines (runtime resources & workplaces) are always identified by their host names, regardless of system settings. In our case our settings were: register using short names, communicate using FQDN However, the registration considered short names and FQDN and caused issues after DNS name change that made manual DB updates necessary. The machines were verified based on their short names in BPAResource and Blue Prism crashed because of FQDN mismatch. The only reason to chose 'register using short names' is to avoid long FQDN names in Control. Therefore: 1. add settings for short/FQDN in Control that is independent on communication and registration 2. always register and evaluate FQDN and never short names only
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Sorry in advance folks, this is gonna be a long one... When starting the compare panel by pressing the 'Compare' choice:
...a compare window pops up. It shows the older version on the left and the newer on the right. In the first few seconds after opening this window, the number of changes is shown: 'xxx difference(s) found'. After a second or two this text disappears. When you press the RightArrow button marked 'Show next difference' the focus shifts to the next change, Equally so, the LeftArrow button shifts focus to the previous difference while the double arrows jump to the first or the last difference.
The definition of 'next' seems to be chronological rather than the 'next change on this page' which is quite confusing and not very handy when doing a 4i audit. A process I was changing today logged no less than 522 differences when i was done with it. This'll be a tough one to handle in our 4i audit later this week! However, at least 400 of these changes are related to house-keeping - removing unreferenced data items, no longer used pages, parameters and actions etc. These house-keeping differences are not as relevant as 'real' changes such as changes in the flow, new/changed actions, new/changed parameters etc., at least not on an audit. So it would be nice if they could be omitted by choice... Summarizing the above, I only have three requests to improve this compare window: 1. Can the status text with the number of differences found stay where it is and not disappear? 2. Can the definition of 'next difference' be modified so BP focusses on all changes on the current page and after that hop to the next page to show all changes there? 3. Would it be possible to identify house-keeping differences and have the choice to omit them from the Compare window?
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Hi team, it’s possible at the moment to convert passwords to Text data item. It would be good to block it so passwords are not fetched. Michał
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In the current Blue Prism architecture, each resource PC will try to establish a connection to every other resource PC. This communication is not needed for standard Blue Prism functionality (scheduling, ad-hoc process runs) and is used only for some feature (eg. resource pools). However, this communication creates spurious network traffic and most importantly raises flags with security teams monitoring network chatter. As the communication is not strictly necessary, it would be useful to be able to disable it completely. I assume there would also be a small, but measurable performance increase across the platform. Note: I do not wish to disable interactive client -> resource PC connections, as these are useful in case the RPA controller needs to "drag 'n' drop" processess.
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Status:
Not Planned
Submitted on
09-07-19
11:38 AM
Submitted by
Walter.Koller
on
09-07-19
11:38 AM
It would be helpful to be able to create and apply templates for user security role definitions in System tab. Additionally to be able to export and import those templates to move from one environment to another. Being able to export security roles in structure format will allow to run security audits on granted permissions (eg discrepancies between template and individual settings). This will support us in our multi team environment with 4 roles x 9 teams (and growing).
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It would be really useful if the date/time since when the resource is idle, is shown next to the name. Maybe something like the image attached Recently we came to know that a bot is idle for a long time but the controller didnt get to know about it. Regards,
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