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Hello All, as we might have faced challenges in having 100% availabilities of RPA Support/Controllers on numerous occasions either when we are out of office, after office hours or are on short staffs some days - it would be a nice idea to have an iOS/Android based mobile app for minimal activities such as force retry, restarting a bot, running any particular ad-hoc processes at times, Also to ensure our businesses are supported at their time, when we are working globally on different timezone and are keen on achieving the idea of effective automation and optimised license utilisation.
It should make controllers/Support Team lives easy. Kindly Thumbs up and support the idea If you agree to this Idea of having Mobile based app for control room or you have been in similar situation at your workplace and during BAU at odd hours.
Regards
Mukesh K
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With the ever expanding mess we call Releases having no search facilities, finding your stuff in the growing list does not become easier over time. Can we have search capabilities on the Releases panel. Something similar to what we have in Studio (BP version 6.10.5) would do nicely. Happy coding! --------------- Paul Sweden
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Currently there is no chance to change the ownership for Business Processes in Hub/ALM/Interact. After Creating new Business Processes in BPH/Iv4.5 and importing Interact forms (from previous BPH/I version) as admin user I tried to change the owner of the Business Processes to something more suitable for business. Unexpectedly there is no chance to do that. I'm able to add members to the process, but the owner is not changeable. I already reported this issue to the BPL support. [#191677] No chance to change the owner of a Business Process in BPH/Iv4.5 : Global Customer Support (blueprism.com)
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When housekeeping some of our older objects, it's easy to get rid of the code, but very difficult to tidy up the Application Modeller. The Error report will give you a warning for each Element which isn't used, but this can be very time consuming on larger objects to find the element to delete. If there was a way any unused/unreferenced elements could be highlighted within the Application modeller (different colour text or an icon maybe), this would make housekeeping much easier.
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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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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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With resource pools, it is not possible to execute all tasks of a scheduler on the same resource. Example: We have 3 resources in a resource pool (VM1, VM2, VM3). When I create a scheduler, I always have 3 tasks (I am sure this is the case for many customers):
- Windows login - process - Windows logout
If I now run a scheduler on the resource pool, the following happens: The login process logs into VM1. The actual process is trying to run on VM2. The logout process tries to log out on VM3.
We want all tasks from a scheduler to run on the same resource in the resource pool. This is important because of security reasons. We have set it up in such a way that each process has its own Windows user, which has limited access rights to directories etc.
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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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Refreshing the control room runtimes is one of my most common UI actions within the control room. Its tedious to constantly navigate to the very top right of the screen to click a dropdown with a single item (making it a 2 step process). At least make it a single click refresh button. But PLEASE add a keyboard shortcut to refresh. Something like CTRL+R
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Hi, can you improve Interact so that it supports logical AND/OR conditions for multiple field values? Let me give you an example: 1. the form has got three elements - Combo box, Field1, Field2 2. if combo box value is Yes, Field1 and Field2 are hidden 3. if combo box has a value No and Field1 value is NOT EMPTY, SHOW Field2 This is not possible to achieve with the current features. Regards, Zdenek
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Hello, it would be cool during spying an element with the application modeller to have the screenshot of the spyed obejct in the final object. Like after spying is done and the object is done that when i open the action in the object that on the right side i see the screenshot of the spyed element. Benefit: error finding is much easier Current Situation: you have getting an error then you have to start the part of the process and then you have to start the application modeller and use the function higlight so see what got spyed. On the other site you also have to open the process documentation to see if the right element got spyed or maybe the applcaition changed.
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being able to inject DLL files into objects when creating code actions, so they also become part of an release package.
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The level of success a company will have from an RPA investment is very much dependent on how the bots are deployed. If the creation and delivery of bots is slow, error prone and unreliable, it will not be possible to harness the potential of Blueprism Capabilities here We have tried couple of POCs to achieve real benefits of CICD for RPA but could not get expected outcomes and solution was additional overhead Possible CICD Implementation we tried : 1. Using Jenkins and GitHub (As mentioned DX Document) 2. Using Azure Pipelines and Azure Reports (Azure DevOps) 3. Creating Blueprism Bot itself for Pipeline and SharePoint as Repository Blueprism should find inbuild better solution to achieve CICD for RPA beneficial making release management more flexible (eg. by allowing package creation outside BP using AutomateC command) My Linkedin post for getting inputs from industry: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jigneshjk_cicd-rpa-automation-activity-6710137382743621632-lOaj
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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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This would help reduce the number of Environment Variables and help collapse / consolidate numerous environment variables into one single Environment Variable name which makes management / use of these a lot easier/efficient.
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With more and more web apps going on single page applications, more and more elements are rendered but not visible in the same page, by scrolling or by hiding/showing elements. IE browser spying have a Screen visible attribute on it's elements. This would be great to have access to this kind of attribute even in Chrome, and of course also in Firefox.
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No Doubt that Blueprism has the best-unattended automation capabilities, but it would be better if we can make running the attended bots easier- a simple console from where one can run their bots seamlessly. I believe this would be helpful and add more fun for process SMEs (Non-technical) running their bots.
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Hi, I am dealing with a project consists of hundreds of credentials which will be updated once or twice in a week. Its difficult for us to remember when was the last updated date and time. So I think in such scenarios it will be very helpful if there is a additional column mentioning last modified date and time of a credential in Credential Manager.
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The "Mark Exception" action automatically creates a tag if the Exception Reason is not empty. The automatically generated tag has the format: "Exception: {Exception Reason}".
The exception reason often contains case-specific data. E.g., "product 523462 could not be found.". Blue Prism then creates a tag from this exception reason, causing our BPATag table to grow indefinitely.
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