It would be beneficial to designers integrating with REST services to natively provide instructive messages for connectivity exceptions.  OpenApi/Swagger describes http response codes but not java exceptions outside normal http flow.  For example this exception is captured for connection errors: com.dstawd.processengine.model.flowobjects.AutomatedActivityFlowObject.executeService(ProcessInstance, String, String, Element): Service failed to execute. Error: java.lang.IllegalAccessException: The response object is javax.ws.rs.ProcessingException, not an fastrequirementsapi.ApiException Service Error Stack:   It would be beneficial for these types of errors to expose the actual java exception or a friendlier message to the designer.  This information can be found in log files that typical designers do not have access to. ... View more

At the moment the Tenant function is based on the user roles only and the administration of tenants in BluePrism is very time intensive.  It would be great to have an setting like create tenant. This tenant is totaly empty like no objects no processes. The admin of Blueprism should add via Tenant Option like the Roles and Users.  On the start option of BluePrism then you should have the Possibilty to choose the connection and a second option choose tenant. The admin see for sure here all tenants but the end user here see only the tenant they have rights for. This would help in different team enviorments. ... View more

It would be absolutely great if we could have dynamic references in inputs and outputs for actions and functions. Basically if we can use a calculation to create a dynamic reference for a collection field for example. That way we could automatize dynamic collections. Example: instead of having the input as a static reference eg. [Collection.Field1] we can use a calculation to change that dynamically, for example increase it and loop eg. [Collection.Field] ... View more

There is a serious bug using a code stage: Pass in a collection containing not initialized fields (e.g. number or flag values) into a code stage. All values will be converted to their .NET defaults e.g. a not-filled number becomes '0' and a not-filled flag becomes 'False'. The reverse transfer (out of the code stage) works properly. Set a DataTable field to DBNull, the value appears as not-filled in BluePrism! This functionality is needed in case of serialisation/deserialisation to/from external data (e.g. XML or JSON format). To keep a possible solution backward compatible: Consider of a code stage option e.g. "keep null value(s)" ... View more

Hello, Time to time VM resources and servers needs time for maintenance breaks. This can happen in scheduled (like once a month) or ad-hoc manner.  It would be time-saving feature that you can schedule a maintenance breaks by resource / by pool.  Why? - Currently every schedule needs to be expired manually and they need to put back when the maintenance break is over. - Normally these SQL server/ App-server maintenance breaks happens in night-time and they last from 1h up to 4h.  - At environments, where are dozens or hundreds of schedules, this is taunting task to do on monthly basis.  - By marking "maintenance break" for certain time slot -> Schedules do not try to start on that time interval. It will save manual work + night time runs will start after the marked maintenance breaks time slot is passed.  - Process controller does not need to remember put the schedules back on next day. ... View more

It would be great if there was a function to allow you to view what logging level each stage had, without having to click into each one separately (or work your way through the logs after testing). Was thinking something along the lines of a colour coding of the icons, maybe a small coloured dot in the corner, with a different colour for Enabled/Log Errors Only. Or maybe a report from the Debug menu, similar to the Validation page, which would show a list of all stages and their respective Logging levels, which allowed you to change it from that screen. ... View more

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! ... View more

If a Collection is a Single Row Collection, a grey dot shows on the Data Item - very handy indeed! Unfortunately, it does not show if a Collection is has defined fields or not - this only shows when opening its properties. Find a way to make it visible on the Data Item if a Collection has defined fields or not. ... View more

I've called this a request for an overhaul of the archiving function because there are so many problems with the existing implementation that to me it makes sense to completely redo it. There's a list of requirements for a solution at the end if you don't feel like reading through the issues in detail. The session log archiving function as it stands in Blue Prism is not well executed, and is something I feel embarrassed about every time I have to explain it to a client. Depending on logging settings, the session log table in the database quickly fills up and for customers with little space for databases, this causes issues. This is widely covered in Blue Prism documentation, and the recommended solution is to undertake regular archiving of the session logs. Issues Here are the problems with the recommended solution: Archiving fails if you attempt to archive too much data, either by selecting to many logs to archive, or if a single log file is too big. In the event that a single log file is too big to archive, there is no way to archive that file. I have encountered this a couple of times and consider the amount of data that can be handled in a single archiving action to be too low for enterprise use. Automatic archiving consumes a license. Why? I still don't understand why this is handled 'by a bot' and cannot just be built into the product. Explaining to a client that you can do this automatically, but it might cost more is never easy. You cannot specify a schedule for automatic archiving. Since I have to use a bot to do the archiving, at least let me specify for it to happen when the bot has some free time anyway or a time that is convenient to me. Archiving does not actually remove the data from the database table. If your database reaches capacity because the session log table is too big (causing Blue Prism to stop working), even archiving all session logs does not drastically reduce the size of the table, in fact it has a minimal effect on reducing database size. If archiving is the recommended solution to the database becoming too full, it should actually solve the problem. Archiving is done to a drive location relative to the local machine on which you are carrying out the archiving. This means that archiving must be done via the Blue Prism client on the same machine each time, or (if archiving from clients on different machines) each machine must have a shared location mapped to exactly the same network drive and this must be set up as the archiving location separately on each client. The archiving drive location is set and remembered at the client level. If you have a setup where a client has connections to multiple environments, the archive location will be set the same for both. If, for example, I were tasked with being the member of staff responsible for archiving for both development and test environments, it would use my single client-based setting for both environments, requiring me to overwrite the archiving location each time I want to archive on a different environment. Solution Please re-develop the archiving function and provide a solution that Can run automatically on a user defined schedule, or in the background provided that does not have an impact on performance. Does not consume a license to run automatically. Allows any size or quantity of data to be archived, or which handles a large data load intelligently rather than just saying 'Archiving Failed' after an inordinate waiting period. Reduces the size of the session log database table appropriately. (e.g. if you archive 70% of the session logs, I would expect the database size to reduce by 60-70%, not 5%). Allows archiving to be done to shared or common drive locations. Maintains a single, persistent archive location per environment, not per client. ... View more

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, ... View more

It would be helpful to be able to see the Calendar view of the Scheduler by a particular worker or workers.  Currently, it doesn't appear that there is any way adjust the settings to easily identify which workers have availability. ... View more

Add option to set breakpoint on all Exception & Recover stages. This option can really come in handy when the user wants to set a breakpoint on all Exceptions/Recover stages. So if it fails anywhere it will stop there. ... View more

At this moment when a task in a scheduler is no longer relevant, we change the on complete of the previous task. The not-relevant task will still be visible in the scheduler and this is confusing en messy.  I understood that removing a task is no option because of the existing archive logs.  ​We would like to have the possibility to retire tasks from the scheduler that are no longer relevant so that the task is not visible in the scheduler anymore. ... View more

Instead of UI based installation, if we can install BluePrism via PowerShell commands with valid parameters, it would be helpful for IT team to schedule the automated installation for newly onboard person to team or during the version migration. For the larger scale team it will be very useful. ... View more

I think the control room should be re-designed completely so that it loads only a specific process or specific session that the user wants to run. At my organization, it takes a lot of time to load the control room. All I need is to run a single process and it takes at least 2-3 mins to load everything. These filters are great and every developer knows how to filter them. ... View more

Some objects that are created in or exported from Blue Prism 6.9 cannot be imported into Blue Prism 6.8. Cause/Way to reproduce: Create a new Web-based object (such as for Chrome). Drop a Navigate stage onto the action/page. In the Navigate stage, choose the root node and select the dropdown action 'Terminate'. Save and export the object. Before importing into 6.8, rename the file from .bpobject to .xml so that 6.8 can see it. Attempt to import into 6.8. An import error will occur saying 'AMI did not recognise the action type 'WebCloseApplication'. This occurs at least for Terminate, Hover (which wasn't available in 6.8 so it makes sense), and Get HTML. Workaround: Delete Navigate stages or change the action inside to something else temporarily. Then once imported into 6.8, choose actions that are equivalent. Suggested fix: I don't know if there's a way to fix this since it's an issue with an older version or versions. So, maybe provide a converter to clean up XML files exported from 6.9 that will change ID names of actions to what 6.8 and earlier would expect. Reference this Community post for more info: Blue Prism Community Post ... View more

In addition to the idea to group and filter environment variables the multi team approach should also be applied here with having access rights on (groups of) environment variables ... View more

In order to create and set calendar  we have to mark all days in which robot should not run, but not opposite. It leads us to lots of manual work ... View more

The 'Web API Services' setting allows for specification of custom headers for a REST call. Being able to do this in the 'SOAP Web Services' setting would be very helpful for our use case as we use custom headers to call all web services through Datapower. As of right now, we need to create custom VB code to call SOAP services with custom headers. This would save a large amount of development time on our end to use Blue Prism's built in web service capability. ... View more