@@gatesv1326 Samesies!

That's true 😂

Thanks @DaveTheRPAGuy for sharing this information with us.

Try using the UNC path for your local temp folder as well and see if that fails too. For example, try \\localhost\c$\temp or whatever. Doing this works for me. I don't currently have access to any network file shares that I can test this with so I just tested on localhost. One other question though. Have you tried just putting the name of the Excel document into the Document Name input of Attach to Running Excel? This also works for me, and I would think it'd get around your UNC path issue. Of course if even that doesn't work, then I would assume you have some kind of issue access file shares in PAD. If you continue having this issue, you could join the ILoveAutomation Discord server where there are people far more knowledgeable than I am about PAD and may be able to help.

I know, right!? It's been hiding in plain sight all this time. 🤣

@@gatesv1326 Yeah we are planning an upgrade from 6.10.1 to 7.3.1, and that comes with quite a few differences. I'm trying to think why you'd need to replace the Outlook VBO though. Was it something to do with 64bit?

Hi Dave. No. Unrelated to 64-bit. The 64-bit architecture is what pushed us to go to 7.2. That’s the first release that has this architecture (and it was about time). The update to the new Outlook VBO is required for 7.3. I can’t recall exactly the reason, but the BP release notes for 7.3 mention it. We’re moving out of using the Outlook VBO to use the MS Graph API. Once we’ve updated all of our processes and have cut the ties to the Outlook VBO, we’ll update to 7.3 (or whatever is the latest release at that point), likely in Q1 2025. Until then, we’ll stick with 7.2.2 cause we’ve made too many adjustments to the base VBO to replace it.

@@gatesv1326 ​ I looked into this today because this made me concerned that I would also need to handle this when we upgrade to 7.3.1 within the next few months. It turns out that the new Outlook VBO (the NetOffice one) has the same functionality and technically will work with 7.3+. I just tested it in 7.3.1. I do not know whether I am allowed to mention the reason for the change in VBO. But if you are already using the Outlook VBO and have the Microsoft Interop DLL, you can continue to use it in 7.3+. This just wouldn't be officially supported by Blue Prism (the company). However, it is apparently supposed to be exactly the same and requires nothing beyond importing the new VBO and the rest should work the same. For me, I think I will delay the adoption of that NetOffice newer version of the VBO because we've edited our VBO and thus it'll take some effort for me to make the same changes in the NetOffice version. So, I just wanted to follow up with you and let you know that you can upgrade to 7.3.1 or whatever without changing the Outlook VBO. You may still not want to upgrade, and there's no problem there. I just wanted to let you know what I found.

Hey Dave. Just to clarify things, what you meant to say is the OLD VBO (the one we’re using now in pre-7.3 versions) will work with 7.3+, right?

@@gatesv1326 correct

Man I miss Blue Prism... One thing I love about the compare functionality is that you can easily export both versions by going to File tab on the compare window and clicking the export left/right side options. You can have it as a back up file and roll back to that version by importing it any time. Blue Prism design studio is very visual easy to see and read in my opinion compared to some other very popular tools

Haha! Thanks! Yeah, the Compare functionality is a great feature, and yeah I often enjoy the visual nature of Blue Prism compared to other tools. Now, if they can just implement Dark Mode, I'll be happy. =)

One object for all the screens sounds like what Blue Prism recommends avoiding which is to put all actions in a single object. This isn't the same thing as what I showed for Dynamic Objects. This would be if you just clicked around the whole application and created application modeller elements for every element you need to interact with and then you created all the different actions that you need one after another regardless of what screen they are on. This kind of massive object would end up having tons and tons of actions usually convoluted logic and traverse all kinds of screens in the app, and this becomes really hard to manage, consumes a lot of memory due to the size of the object, etc. The kind of actions I'm referring to here would be like "Launch, Login, Create Person, Edit Person, Add Address, Read Order Results, Reconcile Orders, Issue Invoice, etc. etc." You can see how these seem to have no cohesiveness with each other. They are random different actions across the whole app and instead should be separated. Just to be clear, what I showed in the second method with the Dynamic Object approach is different from that. It might use just one object, but in this case we're creating dynamic actions that could be used on different screens, but they are not tied to different specific screens.

@@gatesv1326 We do similar where we keep only session logs in blue prism for the last 90 days and the rest gets archived out into files.

@@BridgeWatches Thanks!

@@GilesBathgate I agree. I suspect Blue Prism Next Gen will be made with more user friendly features.

That makes sense. Thanks for letting me know!

@@Marc-hh7px Just the learning edition that I keep renewing.

@@HarshalZade I'm glad this helped!

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Awesome! Thank you!

Same here. Also started 6 years ago and Dave was abolutely helpful. And in a few weeks I have to develop a process using JSON, so again, just at the right time another helpful video. Shoutouts to Dave. You´re the best!

I have done some work with reading invoices, but it was always spotty in results. I have only used Decipher a little bit, and I have kind of stayed away from it because I'm unsure whether Blue Prism is planning to support it long term. That is not official from Blue Prism, but it is the feeling I get. In general, I actually try to discourage using Blue Prism for reading invoices because I think there are other platforms that are just much better at it.

@@SirGG 😥

@@MrArbitraryNumber awesome! i'm glad i posted it then!

@@OmPrakash-wz7eq Thanks!

I'm not sure what you're referring to. I see that I used a collection variable (data item) named "Data", but what do you mean by "using normal Data database"?

The only reason global send keys won't work is if you haven't set the focus/cursor into the blank first and/or if the browser isn't in the foreground. The standard way to handle this in Blue Prism is to use Activate Application, then (if necessary) Global Mouse Click into the field, then Global Send Keys. Is that the design you've tried?

@@rammsteiner18 Are you sure you have true Sys Admin permissions or a custom role that someone just calls Administrator? Nothing should be greyed out for System Administrators.

@@mytciopinfo My first thought would be to check if the target application is running with elevated privileges which can cause it to not work. Otherwise, I don't know without being able to reproduce it myself. PAD has given me various frustrating issues so it isn't surprising.

Thanks! I really appreciate the kind words.

What do you mean by adds it and clicks again? I would say the recorder feature is something to just move on from if you're having issues with it. I think it's fine to use, but I would still say you'll come out with a better automation if you design the click by click yourself and choose which actions to use.

@@DaveTheRPAGuy um, that is what i tried first (just making the automations manually) but for some reason, when i use the move mouse, in some programes like roblox, it doesnt register, which means that when i click il be clicking in the exact same spot. this problem is with many automation apps, and the only one that i found that works is a location based autoclicker.

@@BarkBark790 To move the cursor/mouse properly in stuff like video games especially that are 3D and change your perspective as the movement happens, you have to do a sort of relative mouse movement. When I tried this before, I found it couldn't really be done properly without custom C# to make it happen.

Did I show in the video what to try uninstalling from add/remove programs? I thought I showed uninstalling some version of SQL Server that gets installed.

I have Black Out curtains on the windows, so basically no light gets into my office room from the Outside Light Mode World out there. =)

Thanks for stopping by, bot!

One day!

Yeah, that's fair. I have always been conflicted about whether to show the full steps I took including being confused and messing up a few times. At the time, I was still experimenting with including practically everything. More recently, I've started doing more like you're suggesting. But in the end, if anyone learns anything from my videos, that's purely by accident. A happy accident for sure but I didn't make these like a tutorial. I just can't bring myself to properly do tutorials AND enjoy it haha.

I'll have to put some thought into that. Projects I've done are all code saved in client environments, and I make it a policy never to show client environments or even say the name of the clients in my videos. So I'd have to more just discuss it theoretically without actual code on screen. I'll give it some thought though.

Same!

Thank you!

For sure C# and VB.NET because Blue Prism only supports those directly in code stages.

Hmmm, I just looked into code katas. That sounds like good practice. Thanks for the suggestion.

No worries on being late. =) As far as trying this again with Resilient Recorder, I would say yes, but I just don't have any extra time right now for RPA stuff. I may come back around to do more rounds of RPA tool testing, and I'll remember to reach out to you in that case. Thanks!