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We are trying to monitor for work queue items that take longer than they should (e.g. when the application a process is interacting with is hanging). I see a "locktime" (and "lockid") column in the BPAWorkQueueItem table even, but it does not seem to be used. I suggest the time that an item is locked for working be recorded here or somewhere similar. This will facilitate monitoring how long an item has been worked on, even before it is finished, in case it doesn't finish in a timely manner. We looked into using loadtime but that seems to be when the current batch of items was loaded as opposed to when a specific item was picked up by a Get Next Item stage, and worktime seems to be only recorded at the end of an item's work time so it cannot help in the moment.
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Our schedulers are starting at 05:30 AM every day. We come in the office at 08:30 AM. Sometimes a resource was not available at 05:30 for several reasons and the scheduler has not started. Becasuse we are living in the time of knowing everything at the time of when it happens via push messages on our phone, we would like to have this option also for the control room and the resources. If there can be an app via your smartphone (or another solution) that sends you a push messages when a resource is down for longer than an amount of time or for no reason, that would be helpful. Maybe this could be done for the proces status also? When one is in status of warning or teminated.
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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.
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It would be beneficial to set a Lock release time on environment locks. As an example, you set 5 minutes, if after that time the lock hasn't been released the system will unlock it. This would help in instances where the process may freeze while performing actions and the lock then never gets released unless you manually do it in the system settings or the running resource is rebooted.
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We are using BluePrism v6.4.2 currently and as per our observation we found that Event Logs from Event viewer has same Event ID i.e. 0(zero) for different level of error levels(Critical,Error, Warnings and information). It would be really helpful if the Event ID are different for different log level to configure easily for monitoring tools like BMC Patrol, Splunk and other monitoring tools to set-up automated alerts
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Release management is one of the key activity when it comes to manage the processes versions. we create packages and we take release from it as and when required and we need to name the release manually every time with own naming convention. it would be good if an automatic version of the each release can be generated while taking the release prompt a pop up which allows to accept/reject the release version. if accept then create a release with same as process name with version automatically. also the pop up will give a area to add the description to that release, why that version is generated where reason is added to justify it. example: PID_001_Process_Order_Creation i create a package with name UAT_PID_001_Process_Order_Creation similarly for PROD_PID_001_Process_Order_Creation as i need to take multiple releases as and when changes are done, blueprism can just create a release with a version. Example: UAT_PID_001_Process_Order_Creation_0.1 Desc : initial release for UAT UAT_PID_001_Process_Order_Creation_0.2 Desc : bug fixed and changes added as per the business requirement in order status. PROD_PID_001_Process_Order_Creation_0.1 Desc : initial prod release it saves time of the developer and will not mislead if there are too many releases in backup. this automatic versioning will be maintained automatically by allowing auditors to track, when and how many releases are taken and the reason of it by looking into the description and version number. Looking forward to hear back from team on the same. will be adding more details to it if this idea is worth. Thanks
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Allow the middle mouse click and drag functionality as hand tool while editing/viewing processes and objects.
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I have an application where all spymodes are pretty slow. It takes 6-12seconds to find a button depending on the spymode.
When I have a conditional wait to wait until the button is available I actually double the waiting time.
1. Blueprism waits in the conditional wait to find the button.
2. Blueprism waits the same amount of time to find the button again to then click it.
Would be better if Blueprism could click right away after the conditional wait.
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Right now if any element is not found in Read, Write or navigate stage , an error message is shown like" Unable to perform xxxxx in Step x....". I think if the element not found is automatically highlighted in the application modeler would be a great time saver. I think Open Span has a similar functionality.
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Issue: *Runtime Resource Blueprism Listener is facing out of memory exception when the listener memory exceeds 1.5 GB. *The memory of the Listener is increasing because of the runtime resource logs. *Since the Logs include connection logs of all the runtime resources listening to same server Ref Tkt Number : 75620 Solution: * Disable/Enable option for the runtime connection logs * Utility or command to release the log memory remotely.
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Hi, It will be good to have a configuration setting to avoid runtime resources to look for a connection when they are offline. Currently in Control room these runtime resources shows as "Missing" status when the BOT machine is shutdown or offline for some reason. We are planning to implement a cloud based solution for Blue prism bots to start machine and stop machines automatically. When the machine stops, the relevant runtime resource shows as "Missing". It may help if we have a configuration setting to stop runtime resource to look for a connection in this scenario. Thanks, Manoj
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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
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The view functionality in the studio is too far limited.
If I open a process or BO in view mode, my objective is to open it for READ ONLY purpose. I still want to be able to use all the other functionalities, like using the expression validation, advanced find, and so on. So the view functionality would be more useful as a read-only mode, instead of a no edit mode.
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To be able to tackle performance issues, the Blue Prism log should take in account the duration of each stage.
Firstly, the Blue Prism log should display the duration of each stage in the log, not just the 'resource start' or 'resource end'. And as some stages are unseen given the log settings, the Blue Prism log should include at the end, the duration of all unseen stages, and the total duration of the process.
Secondly, Blue Prism should include a setting to display a stage in the log if its duration is greater than a defined value (in the system). For example, all stages with duration greater or equal than 30 seconds are displayed in the log, even if the setting in the studio is none or error only.
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It would be great to enhance the existing capability to review references to a process or an object in the following way:
to enable it both ways, meaning that you are not limited to view processes and/or objects that call the selected item, but also vice versa to view all processes and/or objects that the selected item calls itself (particularly useful to review upon release build if all required items are included)
to have a full visual mapping of all references and dependencies, not just a simple list
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With the start of Blue Prism, it is automatically trying to connect to any server set as default in the ComboBox of connections. This behavior is really annoying when working with multiple environments, as the user needs to wait or cancel a connection attempt if it's set to the wrong server. Also, the preemptive authentication of users is not acceptable at all.
Preemptive connections should be avoided as the application should only try to connect to a server after the user confirms it
Preemptive connections can decrease the performance if the user wants to connect to a different environment
Preemptive connections will result in throwing the error "An active connection has been closed forcible by the server" if the same host runs multiple BP Servers, but BP tried to connect preemptively an a wrong port
Authenticating users before they even entered their password is also something that should be changed:
Authenticating users after they just entered their username is a violation to IT security standards. I wonder how this passed your audits.
Preemptive authentication can tell an unauthorized person details about a user's account (like if the user/password expired) even if the user was not authenticated.
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currently a detailed guide is not available which will provide information on different attributes that exists in Application Modeler, a detailed guide would surely help in selecting attributes for e.g. what do we mean by Match Index or Class Name attribute etc
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feature to create and save a connection between process and bot machine will help to get rid of dragging processes on bot machine by scrolling through the long lists of bot machines, feature can be introduces as a schedule without any timing, but can be ran manually whenever required
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When dealing with complex and dynamic HTML pages, it's not always possible to use the Path attribute to identify elements on the page because the path structure can change based on other elements displayed before the field we want to use. Often those HTML elements don't have an ID property (which would allow to spy them quickly) and the use of other attributes combination doesn't always perform well. This could be solved (not always but in many cases) if we could modify the HTML source adding an ID property to that specific element. My suggestion is to provide an action that executes a search&replace on the HTML source in order to give the developer a way to add an ID property to an element and then retrieves the PATH of that element (i.e. “/HTML/BODY(1)/DIV(4)/DIV(2)/DIV(6)/DIV(3)/DIV(1)/DIV(1)/H2(1) ) that can be used afterward with Read and Write stages. I uploaded a screenshot with a possible example of the action parameters. In that example the action would retrieve the PATH string of the element before the label "Popular Broadway Shows".
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