Status:
Not Planned
Submitted on
15-01-20
12:44 PM
Submitted by
Graeme__Tacon
on
15-01-20
12:44 PM
It would be really user friendly if, when you'd updated an environment variable and clicked 'Apply'. that a pop-up window showed what variables were being updated and giving you the option to not change them (in case of something changed in error). Or, could it highlight which environment variables have changed, like it does when you change a scheduled, by putting a '*' next to it ?
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In case a runtime resource is performing only background processes (eg. HTTP requests), it would be beneficial to have it run as a windows service. This would increase flexibility in deployment scenarios and allow BP to move further towards being used as an integration platform. In one specific usecase, we need this as the runtime resource is running on a server (which has the required ports open), but we cannot apply the GPO to prevent user logout, due to different policies applying to servers as opposed to virtual desktops.
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Status:
Delivered
Submitted on
10-01-20
01:18 PM
Submitted by
KristianRisager
on
10-01-20
01:18 PM
BP currently lacks the ability to edit expressions in the Evaluate Expression wizard. This leads to clicking back and forth a lot, and it is time consuming when testing different variable values. Can you make it possible to edit expressions and evaluate them in the same window?
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Columns in the Available Processes, Resources, and Environment sections of the Control room seem to have a default width setting. These columns can be manually resized, but clicking away to Design Studio or another tab will cause them to go back to their default width. I propose that the resized width of these columns should be saved as columns like Name in Available Processes can be similar and the column needs to be resized to see the ends of the names. Also, the Connection column in the Resources section can often be outside of the window if the window is not full screen. I also feel that if a column has no information in it, it should only be as wide as the heading. For instance, the Members column under Resources in our environment contains no information, yet it's almost twice as wide as the header.
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The existing design control covers quite a lot in terms of usable syntax and logic errors but it is limited with best practice checking. There should be a base set of configurable best practice controls set up based on peer review documents. Example controls: Overcomplicated pages - Check for X number of stages. Stages that could be sub-pages - Check for duplicate named sequences of stages. Possible infinite loops - Check to ensure a decision stage exists between a set of links that go backwards. Attach stages at the beginning of actions - Check for an attach after a Start stage These are just some possible controls. Rules should be developed based on the existing peer review checklists on the portal. Organisations should have some flexibility in modifying the controls and increasing/decreasing thresholds based on their own needs.
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The Timetable (Control tab: Scheduler>Timetable) in Blue Prism client shows the schedules for the whole week. This is a nice feature but when having several robots running numerous processes this view gets less usable because there is no distinction between runtime resources and the shown time span is to big to see more than the hour when the process should run.
It would be nice to be able to zoom into one particular day or even hour, to see exactly the time when the process run and what processes will run in parallel, are overlapping or run sequential.
Additionally there should be the information which runtime resources are used and maybe having the possibility to filter on (multiple) resources.
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It might be useful to have code snippet options available within code stages to allow for fast development of custom code stages. This would also benefit those will limited knowledge on coding and help them understand code stages where they might need to investigate, troubleshoot and fix code. This could be limited to areas within vb such as ms office applications, outlook, excel etc.
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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.
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Status:
Delivered
Submitted on
06-08-19
12:47 PM
Submitted by
ChristopherJank
on
06-08-19
12:47 PM
If i want export and click on Select all Dependencies then i expact all dependencies not just the first layer of. Process - Component - Objhect - Utility etc.
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Hi, currently there is the only option for warning when robot gets stuck at an action for longer time than is certain number of minutes - it is displayed in Control Room. It would be very useful to have more options here. I can think of:
sending an email or sms
Restarting the process
Terminating the current process
It would be particularly useful when running overnight processes so that in the morning the robot is not blocked by hanging process.
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Status:
Needs More Info
Submitted on
13-10-22
02:32 PM
Submitted by
DavidKatz
on
13-10-22
02:32 PM
Chorus Communications currently allows outbound letters and emails. We would like the ability to send text messages added.
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Currently there is no option to add custom word template in the setting option in capture. This hold true till version 3.1. this feature once added will save time for org not to copy paste the information from capture doc file to their own file.
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When object name is changed then in all processes where this object was used it no longer exists in the actions and it should be again added for all the missing actions. It could be the same as for process - when the name is changed it still exists in other processes where it is used as it is referenced by ID I guess.
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When archiving session logs in BP it should be possible to chose another target location than file system. It should be possible to specify a target DB. The session log table takes huge amount of space and regular archiving is inevitable. Normally only very few days are kept online in Blue Prism DB. Any investigation or analysis on log data needs first to restore from file system back into DB. The target of the restore has to be BP instance, thus may impact existing environment or new environment has to be set up. The idea is to archive session logs into another table (in another DB) instead of file system. This opens several possibilities: - DB Backup and Restore can be used (whose implementation is normally more sophistiscated than file system backups) - Table organization can be utilized (eg partitioning) - Data in this table can still be easily access and used - Backup and Restore to/from this table is independent of and won't affect BP instances - Archived data in the table will be a snapshot at the time of archive (see below for implications) Currently the session logs (and also archived logs) have references to other DB objects like resource, process, ... Although the deletion of the referenced records is prohibited as long as the session logs are online, they can be deleted when logs are archived. Restoring session logs may then have an incomplete view of what happened in the past since referenced resource, user and process may already been deleted or otherwise lost (eg upgrading BP into new BP instance). Therefore those references have to be resolved into their names (in addition to their IDs) before writing into archive table.
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Status:
Needs More Info
Submitted on
10-10-22
09:12 PM
Submitted by
Lorie.Humphrey
on
10-10-22
09:12 PM
In adding the New Processor several miss the column layout of the Legacy Processor in the Work List and Search functionalities. Currently under preferences there is a Theme space and currently there is Default and Compact, the request is to add an additional one that would mirror similar to the column format with Headers like Legacy Processor where individuals can easily compare LOB's within several work items.
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Quite often I need to copy something from the BP UI to use in an errand, a document, an email, ... The things I need to copy on a regular basis are:
Process name
Environment variable values
...
The easy way would be to mark the text to be copied in the UI, do a right-click and chose Copy (or a Ctrl+C). Unfortunately, the UI does not allow these, and other, texts to be marked and subsequently copied. This leaves only the 'visual copy and manual paste' option open. Note that I can copy at least the values of Environment variables in the Development environment, but the Production environment in View mode does not allow for this. The contents of most Environment variables do not really lend themselves for a manual copy and paste, as it is quite easy to make mistakes in things like long values for file-paths. Long ago I got fed up with the UI's inability to copy the process names, so I put these in an XL for more easy reuse. Now for my proposal: Could you make more elements in the BP UI available for marking and copying? Happy coding! --------------- Paul Sweden
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Interact and associated forms should be able to be unlocked via another user. We have experienced forms being developed by a user remain perpetually locked by developers just like a BP process or object.
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Create utiilty to enable import of an excel (*.csv) formatted spreadsheet from Processor workspace. UX screen will need to enable mapping of columns to Chorus BPM data fields with options to include/exclude column. Need to include a preview that states what will happen (i.e. 27 new UNIT - WRKT transactions will be created with the following data fields ACCT, SSNO, AMT, etc.) Each row will create new transaction (Case or Transaction) in Chorus BPM and they will execute the related process flow. This utility will enable sunset of some RIP feeds and enable rapid ingestion of data into the system that is currently locked in Excel spreadsheets.
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Status:
Needs More Info
Submitted on
18-03-21
04:46 PM
Submitted by
zdenek.kabatek
on
18-03-21
04:46 PM
When designing the form in Interact one usually end up having quite a number of fields. If I want to go one by one I need to open the particular field and then close it and reopen next one. It would be helpful to have a Next Field button in the field window interface so that I can step through all the fields in one window without a need to open/close/open/close cycles.
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Status:
Under Consideration
Submitted on
22-06-22
11:48 AM
Submitted by
ssokal
on
22-06-22
11:48 AM
Parent Ticket - AWD-42901
Add the ability for AFT to communicate with S3 using the native EC2 profile rather than specific keys configured in the aftservice.properties file. Ticket AWDPS-1656 has a code version available to do so by using a flag in the properties file named s3aftadapter.useDefaultProvider. This removes the need to have a system user in AWS specifically for AFT. This was originally identified as part of the SS&C Cloud Security Review.
A review needs to take place to determine whether the communication protocol has been in the design up to now. The fact that this has had to be developed by PS states it hasn’t been. Description on the Dev ticket AWDPS-1656 :-
We have an issue that occurs every time AWS make a change to their certificate chain for secure connectivity to S3. We currently use the S3 AFT Adapter provided by base product and its approach assumes the AFT is installed on client site and is connecting remotely to S3, therefore requires all the AWS Certificate chain for S3 connectivity to be loaded into the Java Trust store.
This means any time there is a change to the certificate chain we get connectivity issues, most commonly AWS make intermittent changes deep in the chain, which then manifest as intermittent connectivity issues to S3.
We have had this on several occasions, once with Vitaity and very recently with LV and these result in Level 2 incidents that are challenging to diagnose and resolve.
However we are deployed into AWS and the EC2 instance has a default provider chain on the machine that enables access to S3 using IAM config as AWS level, so we should just be able to utilise the machine level access privileges to talk to S3 and this will remove the fragility/risk that comes about when loading certificate chains into the Java Trust store.
Moving to the EC2 level authentication also removes installation, upgrade and certificate maintenance complexity.
See the following link as an outline of how the AWS Java SDK can leverage the default certificate chain.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java/v1/developer-guide/java-dg-roles.html
Steps to Recreate- Try to use AFT with S3 using the native EC2 profile fails
Component - AWD|File Transfer (AFT) Affects Version - AFT 6.0
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