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can unattended robot during schedule execution trigger attended robot

  • 1.  can unattended robot during schedule execution trigger attended robot

    Posted 05/28/21 02:56 AM
    Hi,

    Good afternoon, I got a question not sure it work in this scenario, let say I have 2 robots one unattended and one attended run. The unattended will schedule up running and look for certain folder to execution base on the workflow created, however can the robot calling other robot which published as attended run?. As I know at the designer/script there is no script/sub-route calling to "project" WAL file right? 

    Thanks.

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    Sonny Siah
    Infra365 Sdn Bhd
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  • 2.  RE: can unattended robot during schedule execution trigger attended robot

    Posted 05/28/21 09:59 AM
    Hello Sonny!

    Couple of things first.

    When publishing a bot, we do not choose if it's to be run as unattended or attended. The actual execution, or should I say how we choose to execute the published bot, decides if the execution counts as unattended or attended.

    Now, the attended execution is triggered via Launcher. That's the optional client application that you would install to bot user's computer that the user can trigger bots on demand - as attended bots.

    Now, back to your question. Unattended bot can call out different WAL files (other published bots or local files) using Execute Script -command, but by doing it, it would execute the bot (WAL file) within the same bot runtime. But I guess that's not what you are asking or is it?

    Furthermore, a bot can also call another bot runtime using agent Web API. This would then trigger what ever published bot to be run in the runtime that receives the request. This of course counts as unattended bot execution since bot is not triggered by Launcher.

    Hope this helps.

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    Jukka Juselius
    Senior Solution Architect - IBM EMEA
    WDG Automation Program Lead for EMEA
    IBM Technology - Business Automation
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