Showing ideas with status New.
Show all ideas
Currently each of our Runtime Resource machines log into Windows with a static user ID. When a process is run on that Resource, it authenticates into the applications using a different user ID that is dependent on the process. We are now starting to implement Single Sign on for many of our applications, which does not work with our current setup. I want to request that you develop a Login Agent functionality to support multiple credential logins for each resource.
... View more
related to following idea, which also provide further details: https://community.blueprism.com/ideas/viewidea?IdeationKey=685838f9-1ad8-4ed9-b293-cc951d97904e The idea is to change the system wide setting for browser extension port assignment to be per object/process. It should be possible to set default behavior to dynamically assigned ports but tell BP to use standard port when attaching to running browser instance. Using standard ports when attaching to browser could be new default behavior (since it is obvious dynamic ports won't work).
... View more
Hello, BP v6.x could desperately use some UI enhancements. We're on 6.5 upgrading to 6.9, and the following problems still exist. 1) Saving the window states. You open up System-> Credentials as an example, and the Credential column is too narrow to read the names. So you drag the bar to widen that column. Leave that window and come back later -- the column is narrow again. This issue is most annoying in Credential Details (adjusting columns in Processes, Resources, & Roles) and the Control Room (adjusting window widths & heights to better view queue names, resources, etc). 2) Control room log viewing - these logs are thousands of lines long. I want to open them full screen. Please stop opening them in tiny windows. Allow me to save my preference of opening full screen. 3) Control room resource window - I don't want to view the Default folder. We have our resources in other folders. Please allow us to keep the Default folder closed. Thank you for your consideration.
... View more
I think there should be a community edition/Trial version of all product like decipher or interact to learn and dig into that product. That will help to learn the platform and will increase the interest of learning.
... View more
We have had multiple occasions where customer needs to transfer data from environment to another environment. Currently we are able export credentials and workqueues but on a name and a structure level only meaning that the contents are not transferred. When customer has 1000 or more credentials and workqueues where history etc needs to be transferred, a simple data transfer operation that should not take more than 15 minutes is suddenly a two month project or even longer since every credential needs to be manually re-entered, processes to be created to export workqueue items contents to excel file or something similar. Blue Prism already has AES256 encrypt/decrypt possibilities so I would assume it should not be too much of a hassle to add encrypt/decrypt into the process of exporting packages, for example making it only possible to export/import to an environment with same Encryption Schemas
... View more
Can we add an action under Studio for 'move to a folder' that can be enable a developer to move process/objects created and available under one folder to another folder ? This will save time and effort to drag and drop process/object from one folder to another.
... View more
We run several independent BP instances to serve multiple development teams. Information about usage, status, schedule, licenses, ... is hard separated and has to be evaluated for each instance independently. It would be nice to have one common supervisor server, which at least makes meta data available conveniently. This could also serve for central license management. This could also be seen as big step towards multi tenancy.
... View more
Hi, I am wondering why after so long why is BluePrism doing the auto conversion of Date & Datetime to UTC. It is definitly the most annoying thing in BluePrism. It is literally frustrating to work with anything Date related in the software. Why not give the ability to deactivate this conversion that it always does? Even when your datetime is already in UTC time, it will convert it anyway, making your date so out of whack that it doesn't make sense anymore... and don't get me started on collection with date where you need to loop in the collection. You can get them converted a lot and making your process a lot harder to develop because you need to account for those instead of just doing that yourself if you need to. BluePrism should never touch any variable automatically without the dev actually doing something. using DateTimeKind works for the first time when you output but BluePrism clears that after that point so it doesn't really matter what kind it is. Please let user do their things. I know I am not the only one having trouble with that. I saw in another company devs that were using SQL query to get the "Now()" date instead of Blueprism cause it was more reliable. That's not normal to have to do workaround like that for anything. I've been working with BluePrism since version 4 and this is by far the worse thing that has been following us since then. regards,
... View more
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.
... View more
Set Next stage is something highly used menu item. Why don't we move it to title bar somewhere, because current UI we have a lot of empty space there to put important option directly on title and header area. Every time performing right click, find option, scroll to bottom and there the most useful button SetNextStage is. So hope this is taken under consideration .
... View more
In BluePrism I feel a need of button which can take screen focus to current active stage (Yellow Color). I particularly feel need of this button on large project which uses large canvas size, so while I am testing it step by step and move to other area(to check value of data item) I can go back to current active stage once I click that button.
... View more
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.
... View more
The dependency functionality introduced from V5 is great as it's accessible from the object, process and package level. From a process perspective, you can see object, environment variable, calendar, credential dependency but there is no option to view subprocesses.This is a real hassle when migrating a process that has a number of subprocesses from one BP version to the other.
... View more
Having recently migrated some processes from V4.2 to v6.5, I discovered there was a real need for a migration tool. To buttress my point, the migration tool will 1. Automatically migrate all processes, objects, environments and other assets without any manual intervention. The only manual intervention will be to trigger the tool (.exe). We had over 100+ processes in v4.2 and moving across to the new environment was a real pain 2. Compare the versions of assets(process, env variables) if they already exist in the target environment. Technically, our strategy was to keep two environments running currently and any migration failure experienced in v6 will result in roll back changes and back to V4. After migration, some shared objects were amended in V4 by other developers, That automatically left both environments out of sync and sometimes, the new asset isn't moved over to V6.4. 3. Automatically takes a snapshot of all assets by automatically associating dependencies with processes and creating releases. I know my comments sound ambitious but this will alleviate some of the laborious tasks with respect to migration.
... View more
Blue Prism exclusively restrict access for importing or exporting the objects and processes under User Roles level.
It does not restrict access from importing or exporting the objects and processes under folder levels individually. We are facing multiple issues with this limitation that we can't restirct the import access rights at folder level. Example: Developers should be allowed to import process specific objects or processes only. They should not be allowed to import reusable objects/Processes/VBO's
... View more
Since developers should spend time to create Environment Variable descriptions in Control when they are defined (and/or updated) - it would be helpful if that definition was pulled into Data Item stages once the Environment Variable is selected in the Data Item stage. This would reduce the number of times developers must describe Environment Variables when a definition already exists in Control.
The description could be carried in as editable text in case a developer wants to edit or augment the description if required to make their logic clearer.
... View more
I think it would be useful to be able to validate the schema of work queue items before they get added to a work queue. My thought is an XSD validation string or or some such mechanism could be associated with the work queue. The Add to Queue action could use it to validate that the data being added to the queue is valid before proceeding. The advantage of this is that processes that use the work queue would be able to safely assume that any data entered into the queue is valid. Further, it would mean that exceptions due to invalid data would happen at the time that data is being added to the queue, as opposed to when the data is being read from the queue. On a practical level, this may not happen often since users should be testing what data is being added into queues before going live with it. However, this would still be a gain because it would be one less thing that you have to think about while building processes.
... View more
Noticed a major difference regarding saving in BluePrism 6.9 Suddenly after saving, all my active data is removed, basically performing a full process reset, which never happened before. That is in my opinion a very bad idea as I myself like to save after every confirmed functional change, thus forcing me to either not save or to redo the actions if I am debugging something or developing actively. Is this saving behavior intentional?
... View more
We have a large number of resources. To become more efficient we try to run multiple processes on the same resource, however it is very hard to plan accordingly if the work volume is inconsistent and the schedule ends up running long. It would be nice to have an option to choose a dependent schedule, or a "next in line" schedule that can be kicked off after a specific schedule completes. Additionally in the dependent schedule you could see what schedule is referencing that schedule. I feel this would help reduce the number of resources that may be sitting idle for periods of time in between schedules, and also prevent schedule collisions.
... View more
