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As many web automation developers know, Blue Prism is not ideal/very fast in regards to web elements, especially on certain frameworks. Chrome itself is not ideally handled in Blue Prism at all, especially the need for specific versions etc. All this can be resolved simply by creating a new mode specific for Chrome with the use of the Puppeteer library. I believe, this would open the door for Blue Prism into web RPA using Chrome where people need fast speed, which is not possible with current Blue Prism capabilities.
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A timeout, configurable or globally set for the highlight function in Application Modeller would be highly useful, as sometimes it seems to be for some reason it "hangs", simply trying to find the element and basically not happening for several minutes, even the element was just spied a moment ago. This applies to all versions of BP as I have seen this on many. It applies to all spy modes too, it mostly is happening on HTML but I have seen it on AA as well. Basically, we could say, that if it is not possible to highlight within 2 minutes, it should abort and report a failure. As when this happens, the only way is to force kill the application, which is not desired.
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Ability to see if any BP clients are connected to BP server, if they have any objects opened etc. We can already see if there is any activity from resource PCs, but there is no information about normal BP clients. For example, if we need to reboot BP server, we need to know if anybody is currently working on something, has opened objects etc As I would assume a developer working on a process would probably loose some work during a server reboot. A system workaround I had to use is relatively simple, but internal BP functionality with more detailed information would be very useful. "netstat -a 1 | findstr 8199" - simple enough to see if anything is connected to the 8199 port
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You should be able to edit retired schedules. Currently the only way to edit a schedule is if it is live, which poses a risk that the schedule may run before the changes you need to make are made. For example, I have a retired schedule where I wish to change the calendar used from a Mon - Fri to Tues only, but if I unretire this on a Friday to edit it, the schedule will run straight away, before I am able to update the calendar which would tell it not to run on a Friday.
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Hello There, We are following federated operating model for RPA where operation team owned the shared BOT BAU. We are scheduling BOTs from 4:30 AM to 11:00 PM and team got the work from access to monitor the BOTs. We have faced some application related upgrades and adhoc pop ups due to BOT terminated. We have closed all the active windows and restart the VM to keeps BOTs back on track. I would like to suggest here if we have live snapshot of runtime machines in the control room similar to how we access through VNC or RDP. it will be very help full specifically this work from situation. Regards
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Hey Blue Prism Team & Community, unfortunatly there is no way to authenticate at a Webservice with the currently logged in user using Blue Prisms WebAPI as the support told me. You have to store your credentials in the credentials section and select them directly from the WebAPI. There is no way to dynamically change the user to the currently logged in user. This could be easily enabled by adding a Checkbox or an option to the WebAPI common authentication types which sets "UseDefaultCredentials=true" at the outgoing request. For anyone else comming up with the same question my simply advice would be to not to use Blue Prisms WebAPI feature and better build up your own request using the HTTP Utility VBO.
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Currently there is no timeout for process started from scheduler.
This feature is highly required when we are running multiple process independant of each other in same machine and one has to start at specific time.
Currently if process 1 stuck at certain stage due to some reason the second process never starts.
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HI team, The GUI does not provide an ability to reset the Archive logs action if it already been triggered and due to some reason if the archive fails. System Admins should have the ability to reset the Archive Flag as large organizations do not grant access to the Database due to security limitations.
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Hi BP, I believe from a maintenance perspective, the advanced Database Features such as Table Partitioning also called as Range Partitioning should be provided to the ROM architects to make things easier. Also Blue Prism SystemAdmins Should be provided with a capability to execute DDL and DML commands from the Blue PrismGUI. Also Blue prism should provide the capability to use other RDBMS like IBM DB2, Oracle which has more advanced features as compared to MS SQL.
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There should be a checkbox and in the App Modeller where you can hold the currently selected attributes. Example: Once you have decided the best attributes to describe elements for a given application, normally you would then just use those same attributes for a lot of elements that get modelled for that application. This would speed up Dev time when creating objects. It would also mean that Devs would spend longer finding the best attributes to define elements for a given app as they can just use the same attributes for all. Another possibility is if you can click on an element and then use a 'Format Painter' to then select all the same attributes on other elements. This could be an even better solution as then you can have a preferred set of attributes for the different spying modes.
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Even though we have capabilities of creating reporting manually through stages and gather queue data one by one, Could it be possible to add capabilities to connect through reporting applications like Tableau directly to the queue data?
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Data Gateway currently allow to export session logs to different data storage solutions. the information involved in the session logs would allow to work very well on troubleshooting tasks. Currently the event structure doesn't allow for queue workitem data to be sent with each event as well. Of course not all of the events happen while working on a workitem. But by an Analysis perspective, in case the session is working on a specific workitem, it would be useful to have each event carrying information that would help to identify to which workitem those session logs are related.
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In some cases, resources and servers may not be able to communicate halfway. In the control room, the status is connected, and there is no error display on the resource PC side. However, there are cases where the schedule cannot be cast from the server side to the resource PC or the process cannot be executed manually. Restarting the resource PC or runtime does not improve the situation. After all, restarting the server-side service can only improve the situation. (Even if one resource PC fell into this situation) As a request for improvement, please add a function to initialize the target resource PC in the control room (= perform the same process as restarting the server service).
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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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It would be great if Blue Prism can provide one or two months free trial or license for it's cloud products. Because most of us we don't know how it looks and how it works. Every organization does not have license for cloud products. SO it would be great if we can see it in future.
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Data scraping for a web table or a web table which is having multiple pages is very difficult. I know lot of ways are there but there is no convenient way which can be followed for all the browser or web table with multiple pages.
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Spy modes needs to improve for browser automation also a tree structure should appear for these as well. After spying any element we are getting set of attributes. But we don't know about lot of attributes how and where to use. But in other way way it may be more helpful if we can get guide for that. It may make our automation easier. For Example we can use real X path in Browser automation but it's nowhere mentioned. At the same time it can make easy for th all the automation. Also I found some useful options are not available in chrome automation (Browser mode), which is very helpful. At the same time all the options are available in HTML mode.
Please let me know if these features will appear n near future or if it is not there is there any specific reason.
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Issue occurs is all the versions (6.3.1-6.7.1)
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It should be possible to define processes that are automatically executed whenever a process / VBO is executed. This allows central management of verifications (eg environment, infrastructure, ...), preparation (setting user context, clean-up caches, creating config/files, ..). This should be possible to define per runtime resource.
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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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In order to be compliant with GDPR we need to delete personal data in the Blue Prism database after a given time. But, we want to keep the queue item itself for statistical use in our benefit realization model.
As of now, my understanding is that you can't change the data in an item without locking the item. And you can't lock items that are marked as completed/exception.
It would be nice if there was a built in function that let us update/delete the data field in a completed/exception work queue item so that we don't need to use SQL on the database or delete the queue item completely using the internal work queue object.
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