Hub 4.4 – September 2021

Application

The following improvements have been made to the user interface:

• Fields can no longer be edited when the submission process is in progress.
• When editing or selecting information, a yellow border now displays around the field in focus.
• Drop-down lists have been replaced with combo boxes. Starting to type the name of an item into the text field filters the displayed options to only show items that match the text.

Audit

The following categories and events have been added to the Audit page:

• Business process
  • Created business process
  • Made active business process
  • Retired business process
• Process definitions (only applicable if the ALM plugin is installed)
  • Created process definition
  • Removed process definition
  • Increase major – audit logging for increasing the process definition major version
  • Sign off started
  • Sign off process definition
  • Redacted process definition
  • Sign off finished
• Interact (only applicable if the Interact plugin is installed)
  • Created form
  • Removed form
  • Form increase major - audit logging for increasing the form major version

Audit functionality has been added to support all these events.

User Management

It is now possible to create a new user in the Users area when Interact is not connected.

Application

An issue has been fixed where Hub continually attempted to reload while displaying the "Something went wrong" error message. The issue was caused by an incorrect token refresh and was reported in environments that use Windows Authentication to authenticate with the SQL Server.

An issue has been fixed where, after applying an ALM license and rebooting the system, Hub and Interact could not be accessed. When Hub was selected from the selection screen displayed after logging in, an HTTP Error 502.5 - ANCM Out‑Of‑Process Startup Failure message was observed; where as Interact appeared as unavailable on the selection screen. Blue Prism Hub and Blue Prism Interact can now be accessed without experiencing these issues.

Audit

A minor adjustment has been made to the Edit view pane on the Audit page. The filter category/column heading previously labeled Date time has been changed to Created On for consistency.

Authentication Server

A header style error has been fixed on the Authentication Server login page, where changing the width of the browser window to 992px or less caused the language drop-down list to become disabled.

Environment Management

An issue has been resolved where the user was unable to add a new environment to the Hub Environment management page following a previous failed attempt. This was due to the environment data not being cleared from connected databases after the failed attempt.

Installer

The following changes have been made to the Hub Installer:

• New fields have been added to the Prerequisites 2 – RabbitMQ screen: Virtual host and Protocol.
• The Distributed Cache SQL connection screen has been removed.
• The File Service SQL connection configuration screen has been added. This creates a new File Service database for the storage of files, rather than storing the files in a folder system on the server hard disk.

For more information, see the Hub install guide.

The installation no longer fails if the machine has no internet access or has an incompatible version of the PowerShell SqlServer module is installed on the machine. Previously, the installation would fail if the column encryption script was run in an offline environment.

Host names for all sites can now be custom host names and use mixed case characters (uppercase and lowercase).

Previously, if the initial part (application name) of the default host name was changed during installation and mixed case characters were used, a 500 error was displayed when certain pages in Hub were accessed, for example, Email configuration page, Audit page, and when uploading a license.

LDAP

Hub can now synchronize with more than 10,000 Active Directory users. Previously, Hub was restricted by the default limit set within MaxTempTableSize on the LDAP server.

SMTP

SMTP host names with more than three symbols can now be entered into the SMTP host field.

Settings

An issue with the Customization page has been fixed, where attempting to save a theme with incorrectly formatted text in the Name field resulted in the system endlessly attempting (and failing) to validate the name, instead of displaying an error message.

On the Add connection page, the Database authentication header on the Add connection page no longer displays on the form when SQL with Windows Authentication is selected.

When creating new roles in Hub, all names must now be unique. It is no longer possible to give a Hub role and an Interact role the same name.

All

The user interface has been further refined to improve usability and readability when modifying process definitions, wireframes, exceptions, and templates. For more information about the user interface. See the ALM user guide.

Business processes

A new Delete button has been added to enable the user to retire business processes. A business process can only be deleted by the business process owner, and it cannot be deleted if it has a process definition or an Interact Form associated with it. For more information, see ALM – Business processes.

When sorting data in the Name and Stage progression columns of the Business processes overview page, the first click now sorts the data alphabetically and the second click sorts in reverse alphabetical order. Previously, the sorting was incorrectly applied the opposite way around.

Process definitions

JSON files exported from Blue Prism Capture versions 1.0, 2.0, and 2.1 can now be imported into ALM. This enables ALM users to quickly and efficiently generate a process definition without manually documenting the steps.

The user can:

• Add up to 15 custom choices per decision step to be added to the process definition.

• Drag and drop steps and sections to rearrange them in the process definition.

• Move sections and steps directly above or below a specified section or step in the process definition.

• Upload missing images manually if any fail to import automatically.

• Opt to have any applications that are not already listed in ALM to be automatically added to the Applications page on import.

The following items are included in the import:

• Capture notes.

• A Custom action option has also been added in the Action type drop-down list when creating an Action step in a process definition.

• Click hold, Click release, Key press, and Triple click actions.

For more information, see Upload a JSON file.

Process definitions can now be deleted. A process definition can only be deleted by the process definition document owner, and it cannot be deleted if it is locked for editing by another user. For more information, see Delete a process definition.

A new filter called Sign off status has been added to the Process definitions page. This filter enables users to view only those process definitions where sign-off has been started but not yet completed.

Auditing of process definition workflow events has been added. For information about the events within the Process definition category, see Audit page.

The maximum number of characters in the Element name field has been increased from 50 to 75.

An issue on the Edit definition page has been resolved, where the thumbnail image did not display correctly in the action steps.

Wireframer

Clicking the Send report button no longer results in an error and opens the correct page.