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"IE Mode Conversion Assistant" is now available from Digitial Exchange

bruce.liu
Staff
Staff

Hello members of the community,

I am pleased to announce the release of "IE Mode Conversion Assistant" utility to the Digital Exchange.

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Background

Migration out of Internet Explorer is a burden for many organisations. While there exists a path to migrate to a modern browser variant, and this is in fact the recommended path forward for any RPA programme, the efforts involved may be seen as prohibitive for COEs with a large collection of IE objects present. Microsoft Edge Internet Explorer Mode (IE Mode) is perceived as a shortcut that would allow a much shorter project timeframe, involving much less resources, while ensuring the underlying browser can still be supported by Microsoft in the foreseeable future. This leads to the urgency in offering assistance to such customers in migrating to the IE Mode.

IE Mode Conversion Assitant

This is in fact the exact reason why we have built this utility. It offers out of the box conversion capabilities for the following areas:

  • IE usage found in Application Modeller
  • IE usage found in Attach/Launch stages
  • IE usage found in "Utility - Environment > Kill Process" action
  • Attributes replacements for certain Win32/AA/UIA elements in scope
To understand the full capability of the utlity, please kindly read the user guide comes with the utility.

We recognise that the above conversion features will not likely give you an object fully operational under IE Mode after conversion, there are in total 5 reports (see below) can be used to expose additional areas where manual interventions may be required to retrofit the object to work in IE Mode. It works hand-in-hand with our official IE Mode documentation found here.

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Please note that there will be some setup/configuration work needed to get IE Mode to work initially. The converted objects will require such work to have been completed in your environment before they can be operational under IE Mode.

Disambiguation

While Application Modeller Conversion Tool, found on Blue Prism Digital Exchange (DX), can be customised to achieve similar conversion capability as this utility, a decision was made to create a different utility for IE Mode conversion from the ground up, mainly due to the need of incorporating unique reporting requirements, which are difficult to fulfil by the Application Modeller Conversion Tool in its current design. A specialised utility ensures users can benefit from the research work done by the Blue Prism team on IE Mode to minimise manual efforts in investigations and remediations.

In short:
  • Migrating to modern browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox) from Internet Explorer: Application Modeller Conversion Tool
  • Migrating to Microsoft Edge Internet Explorer mode: IE Mode Conversion Assistant

Suggestions and Feedback

While this is not a Blue Prism officially supported asset, we would love to hear your suggestions and feedback. Please feel free to add to this thread or start a new thread on the DX Commuity and we will look at responding them in due course. This will help us in improving the utility and reduce the amount of manual work required.

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Bruce Liu
Senior Product Consultant, Professional Services
Blue Prism
Australia/Sydney
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4 REPLIES 4

lookman
Staff
Staff
Hi Bruce.

Great news! I was literally on a call yesterday talking about this and said I know it will be available soon....and then it appeared.

Excellent work as always.

Thanks

jack

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Jack Look
Sr Product Consultant
Blue Prism
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steven.boggs
Staff
Staff
Thanks for sharing this!

Bumping this post to also state that this tool is referenced in our Online Help topic "Migrating to Microsoft Edge IE mode".

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Steve Boggs
Senior Software Support Engineer
Blue Prism
Austin, TX
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bruce.liu
Staff
Staff
Hello all,

A new version of the utility 1.0.1 has just been released to the DX. It resolves the following issues reported:

  • Decrease the data grid table so the application can fit monitor with limited screen height.
  • When "Replace "Utility - Environment > Kill Process" (Processes & HTML/IE objects only)" option is selected, certain conversion changes were not made in the converted file, despite of the mentioning of those changes in the log file.
  • "Update Stage Name" option now only applies to relevant usage of "Utility - Environment > Kill Process".
If you have been experiencing any of the above issues, or are using the early version, please kindly update to the latest.

Please continue to use Blue Prism Community to give us any feedback you have on the utility.

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Bruce Liu
Senior Product Consultant, Professional Services
Blue Prism
Australia/Sydney
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ManpreetKaur1
Level 8
It will really be a very helpful tool for migration of our existing projects. Thanks team for this.

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Manpreet Kaur
Manager
Deloitte
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