Why in the world i cannot get deferred item?

I was wondering why i could not get deferred items from a queue, so i drilled down just a little bit the BP Database in order to see all deferred items Just watching the queue So i dumped data before and after completion of the object just to understand how the DB row is...

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The KeepAlive problem

Sometimes, you just cannot ask to the IT department to disable screensaver or user lock screen, and personally i never understood why if we are dealing with virtualized machines, so you have to solve the problem somehow. You can rely for sure on the LoginAgent VBO, which helps you to understand if the screen is locked and so you can login again, but...

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Use BP Tags to do something more

What about tags? I think tags can be used  to do more than simply tag an item to understand what kind of item the robot is working on. Indeed we thank about a new way to use it, just replicating the .NET Dictionary ToString(). You can represent a dictionary as a set of...

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Scheduling processes and unregistered named pipe

Surprise surprise, a customer asked to start a robot at 7:00 AM, but if you generally work from 9AM to 9 PM like me, you'll find that start a robot at 7:00AM is... how can i say... not so beautiful. So It's time to make the scheduler to work! Let's assume the Resource PC we...

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