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For out-of-the-box functionality there should be no excuse for missing descriptions. The Work Queues:Set Data action (image below) is a perfect example. This is a highly useful function but even if you've been using BP for a while, who knows what it does? Frankly, it is lazy product development not to have descriptions for standard functions when the facility to display descriptions is right there. Importantly, they should be useful - not just the obvious "This action sets data in a queue" but detail of how you do it, so someone developing their skills can understand. For example "On Get Next Item this action writes the data in the output Queue Data Collection back to the queue..." or whatever. Perhaps you provide a facility to crowd source the descriptions and have a panel choose the best?
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We can add a new stage named like Dialogue box or something which will pop up a window and ask the user to enter the value of a specific data item. Such a stage can come in handy for attended automation where the user is expected to enter some value during the run time.
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We would like to have the ability to direct a section to a new page/section. This would enable a dynamic way of viewing information on the form based on certain conditions/buttons. For example,
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In a multilingual company, colleagues also want to develop in multiple languages. This is not easily possible in 7.1.1.
Problem:
In the current BluePrism version 7.1.1, the language can be set, but not the format of date/time/numbers, etc. -> This leads to problems in the processes, if different languages are set. According to support this is not possible.
The German developer expects in the process a format "dd.MM.yy" & the English speaking "dd/MM/yy". So far it is only possible to work with several time consuming BluePrism Calculations.
Proposed Solution:
It would be easier if the infrastructure can be set to a uniform format. This is for all users (no matter which language).
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Single Click Option to Retire and Unretire all schedules in the control room. This option can come in handy during prod deployments and many other situations.
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Hi, I think if there is an option to trigger email/Alert from blueprism application incase missing scheduler, it will help to track or look into immediately on that issue.
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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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Today, Every time a new Process or Object is imported into the Environment via AutomateC is automatically added to the Default Folder and does not maintain the Source Directory Structure. However, this is retained when importing via a .bprelease file. This is due to the <process-group> and <object-group> tags present in the bprelease file. Including this in the process/object xml will allow Users to import into an established folder structure.
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Especially when dealing with browser automations, various lags and errors lead to rather messy Process level design. To counter surprising attach or timeout issues, Process level flowchart tend to be filled with actions surrounded with blocks, resume/recover stages and retry loop structures. (Yes, you could clean the process by submerging retry logic into object level, but in the end, it's a same mess, but under a different carpet.) My suggestion is to add a Try-Catch tool into a Process Studio toolbox. Idea is to place an action inside of Try-Catch area and handle exceptions the action might cause. Visually it mimics a Block tool, but adds to its design
properties: number of retries action within a Try-Catch will be retried (or possibly a timeout after x seconds?)
two exit nodes, one for positive and one negative end (means despite of retries, object faced an error) - error node could be a Recover stage and it's up to a developer if the error is rethrown or suppressed by resume
to visualize which retry round is going on, add a caption to stage that signals the retry round for developer
The trickiest part is to create a nice design for a error node, but I hope you'll get the idea!
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Situation for BP v6.9 After each release import the information of exposed processes as web service gets lost and it is necessary to manually expose the processes again. The release file should contain the information if and how a process is exposed as web service. Similar information is already considered in release files: like Web API, SOAP Web Services, ... which reflects the consumer part of services but the provider part (expose as WS) is missing.
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Could we finally get a native & simple way of rolling back to a previous version of Blue Prism (after an upgrade), which would not require using database backup files manually etc.? For years it has been a tragicomic fact that whenever a new Blue Prism version is released, which is not a specific hotfix for a known issue, several existing features are broken in the application. Even with all sorts of pre-upgrade testing plans organizations can't always identify the bugs & issues with the new version (which should be done anyway by Blue Prism before releasing the version) before upgrading their real PROD & DEV environments. This leads to situations that organizations need to: a) wait that somebody else finds & reports crucial bugs, and then make the upgrade decision. b) risk their environment by potentially introducing new critical bugs/broken features. c) prepare for unnecessarily complicated rollback procedures (DB, local installations etc), which will take time + some data will be lost no matter what.
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A client wants to calculate the savings which the automated process brings. As Interact is part of the end to end automation the client asked whether it is possible to measure how much time a user spends on an Interact form activities. At this moment there is no way how to get this information. It would be useful for reporting purposes to have something like that available.
The closest solution could be taken from AuditDB database and table Audit. There is a timestamp when the form is created (by the robot) and when the form is submitted by a user but if the user does not work on the form immediately when the robot creates it there is a time gap which can't be identified.
Thanks.
Regards
Zdenek
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Provide the option to have the Break On Exceptions setting turned ON by default. I always turn this on when debugging. Always. It's such a useful feature and it irks me that I can't just have this on be default all the time. Instead, every time I start work in a process I have to remember to go turn it on. Then when I step into an object I have to remember to turn it on there as well. On the odd occasion I do forget to turn it on the "runaway" behaviour and consequences to your session can be hugely frustrating and waste a great deal of time having to reset. Simple request: allow for Break On Exceptions to be on by default and save the time and sanity of many a developer 🙂
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Currently when items are loaded to work queue, the Created and Last Updated column in queue content is being populated by datetime.
When any of the items have been marked as exception and retried, datetime in Created column remains unchanged and when the same item gets completed, the Last Updated column is updated and the difference between these two columns does not match the Total Work Time column.
Would like to have new datetime in the Created column when item is retried so that when it gets completed, the Last Update column will be updated and there will be no difference in both columns when it comes to match the Total Work time column. OR Can have an one column which will be populating the retried items date item.
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Many corporations require a system that has SOX & MICS impacts to have strict password and security settings. One of those settings often requested but not available in Blue Prism is a "User Inactivity Timeout" option that logs the user off after X minutes of inactivity. This would apply to any user logged into the front-end of the Blue Prism application as a controller or admin, not the runtime resources. Any user that does not click on any buttons or new screens in the application would be logged off after X minutes.
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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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In our shop, when we are ready with a process adjustment, we do the 4i check and the 'Process Comparison' window helps us with that. After the approved 4i check we can deploy the changes to production. This time, I got a change count exceeding 300 and spread all over the place. At that point the 'Process Comparison' window becomes less useful, if not useless. This has happened before when doing major overhaul on a process stretched over longer time. In these cases, instead of the compare window, it would be much more helpful to present the differences in a report, say XL or CSV. I can then filter and highlight the relevant changes and present only these in the 4i meeting. Happy coding! ---------------- Paul Sweden
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When viewing the processes running in the control room in the Management session, in the Environment panel when we want to see the Session variables of the running process to update the value of the variable, it would be very useful and fast if it allowed the option double-click on the variable and it will be enabled for value update.
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It would be a great support to developers or support teams if any of the session can be restarted by clicking on previously completed or terminated session. given the machine is available.
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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.
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