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When running a process from Design Studio, an application window typically opens on top of Blue Prism. It would be great if the Blue Prism icon on the taskbar could be a different color if it's running so we don't have to keep mousing over it or clicking it to see if the process is still running, paused, frozen, etc. Having to click or mouse over Blue Prism can potentially cause issues with the other open windows, so being able to tell the status at a glance would be helpful.
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I noticed that in process/object studio it is possible to concatenate a password obtained with the action "Get Credential" and a text variable. The result is a text variable from which every developer can get the password in clear text. This is a security issue in my opinion that could be solver if the concatenation of a password and a text was of "password" type instead of "text" type.
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The current way on how hourly runs are calculated is misleading and and limits functionality. There are two date/time definitions in a Schedule: Schedule: Runs (eg HourlyMinutely) Start on (eg 19.10.2021) Run At (eg 10:00) Run hourly / minutely Every (eg 5 hours) between (eg 06:00 and 16:00 Expected behavior of the schedule would be to have following time table: 19.10., 11:00 19.10., 16:00 20.10., 06:00 20.10., 11:00 20.10., 16:00 .. to run at the same hours in the specified window. The actual runs are scheduled for: 19.10., 11:00 19.10., 16:00 20.10., 07:00 20.10., 12:00 21.10., 08:00 The calculation is based on the initial Run At time and the hours are simply added regardless of day ends. (Since 5h frequency put in a calendar day is 24h +1h, there is a 1h shift in execution each day). This is not only very confusing but also limits the hourly runs to values that can divide 24 with no remainder. Please change the calculation to be based on the start value of the time window in the hourly parameter definition. Or change the calculation to be always based at the Run At time each day. (so no continues calculation but resets for each calendar day)
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Hi Team Could you please add functions to allow return of References for a stage parent - Process Name Object Name Page Name This will avoid having to manually code these into various exception messaging stages, and avoid having to update them also should you rename a page etc. Thanks
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Whilst upgrading between BluePrism versions we noticed that a locked environment lock never got released due to the process getting stuck and not stopping as expected before the operation commenced. This meant, the lock got carried over to upgraded version in the database but not visible in the front UI screens, which prevented lock with similar name getting acquired by the process. A simple query to reset the value to NULL in respective fields on BPAEnvLock table would ensure a clean upgrade and avert such issues.
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Reset Service account Password for App Server and DB Server Automatically using code. Target is to avoid manual intervention and also to avoid restart of machines and services.
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Confirmed with the support that currently it is not possible to export that list from within the product. We can only do so by exporting that from the database which is use unfriendly.
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The application manager offers two attributes after spying an SAP-element: - ComponentType - ID When setting the match type to "Wildcard", Blue Prism cannot find the element. So wildcard search seems not to work here. It would be great if wildcards are also available for SAP elements as this would reduce the need for custom built solutions where the complete ID is not know in advance. In addition to this it should be possible for read-stages to have a "Get ID"-option. When you combine both, we could do the following: - Set the attribute ID in application manager to dynamic - insert a read stage, set the ID parameter to wildcard und put in the parts you know - use the new "Get ID" option to get the complete id For further processing the ID could be cached in a data item und nomore wildcard search is needed because the ID is already known.
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The idea is simple. Add wildcard functionality for numeric application elements, such that we can have more flexible elements which can take wildcard numbers in for example ordinals, ancestor count etc. Currently you have to add an explicit setup for numerical elements, limiting you when invoking the element. If for instance you need to be able to search for just the name of the element most of the time, but once in a while would like to be able to use the same element with a specific ordinal, then you currently need to have 2 different application elements, and along with those two elements you need to duplicate the code handling these elements. It would be much easier if we could wildcard these numeric elements and then the function-invoker could determine whether she/he would like to use the numeric element or not. If they supply a * character to the element, then it's the same as ignoring it, as it could be any value, and if they give it a specific value, then the application modeller will only match against that specific value. Sounds like something that should be simple to implement, and at the same time make all our lives easier in the process - Cleaner code for all!
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Active Directory database conversion is useful for credentialing users that are not all tied to the same domain, but can make maintenance a pain. The fact that it is not reversible OOTB means to manually revert you will need to perform the following: 1) (have a db backup from before the conversion) 2) Export all changed components since the backup 3) Restore the DB from backup made in (1) 4) Import the components exported in (2) 5) Reconfigure AD groups/roles as needed An enhancement to the tool would remember AD group/role assignments, and allow re-mapping of AD groups to those roles in the event a reversion is desired. A list and prompt on what to do with unmapped Users could help determine if ready to revert.
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Can we extend our collection manipulation utility to read from, write to or delete an arbitrary row in the collection ?
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The In parameters on a Page are defined on the Start stage, the Out parameters are defined on the End stage - no surprises here. On the actual Page call properties, where the Page is called, the parameters are split in an In and an Out tab, making it hard to get an instant overview of what goes in and what comes out. Wouldn't it be nice if the Page call properties would show all In and Out parameters on one tab? (...obviously mentioning what way each parameter goes...)
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When we see a control panel , we see two panes of "Available Resources" and "Process Names" . There is no way to find out what is the run mode of that process by looking at the control panel. In the "Available Processes" pane can we also add a column of "Exposed Run mode" with description and process name . It will ease much of our time as now while running only we know what is the exposed mode of that process . No need of going to check the objects and process manually . One now have full idea about how many and what processes he\she can run on a VDI on control pane is now showing run modes also .
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Currently I can do a selector such as this $.[?(@.drawerName == 'Clients')].drawerID to get just the drawerID with the name of Clients. If I could instead replace Clients with a defined parameter for the API I could run the endpoint and more dynamically return the needed value without having to parse the output later.
All this lacks is the ability to make use of what's already there.
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It would be beneficial and convenient for Blue prism developers to have the ability to view Blue prism process/objects along with their individual pages inside them with input/output parameters from the left pane of the studio tab. At present, if we have to check what all parameter we have given in a page we open Blue prism process/object and navigate to the page and then click on Start or End stage to view it. It would be great if we can view it from the left pane of the Blue prism studio and add/edit the parameters.
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For easy navigation of processes and business objects it would be incredibly useful to have a 'pan' tool to move about the canvas. What I'm talking about is a click and drag function to move the zoomed-in view of the flow diagram in process and object studio. This would be most useful combined with a shortcut key (e.g. 'P' for pan, or you could use the 'H' for 'Hand' convention that Sketchup uses) to allow full and fast navigation of the canvas. It's a feature I love in other software packages (including Sketchup) but I miss in Blue Prism.
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Change way of getting values from BPA EnvironmentVar All values are requested from this table when environment variables are in usage. It will be better if values which are used in certain process will be requested only
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Currently we are using BP Data Gateway to extract Dashboard data into Power BI, which is working fine. We are now looking to send following information to Power BI so that we can generate a report : Queue Name, Exception Name, Exception Count This does not map well with BP Dashboard and it feels like this should be possible to do via Gateway.
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Hi Team, As you are aware that MaxUndoLevels in Automate.config file plays a key role in Blue prism Memory Management. Now we are setting this value by searching that word in config file and replace value with required count. Instead, it would be great if there is a command line option to set this, using, AutomateC.exe. Thanks & Regards Ramesh Sambari
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We'd like to be able to script the installation of Capture using silent install flags. Currently we are unable to do so because the application does not support silent installation flags or attempting to install the application in system context. This would be incredibly useful for large organizations such as ours who distribute software to employees via a software catalogue type of system.
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