Robotic Process Automation Jobs

The following topics describe job attributes that work with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platforms and services:

Automation Anywhere Job

Automation Anywhere is a robotic process automation (RPA) software, which enables you to create bots that observe human actions in the digital workplace, identify repetitive rules-based tasks, and automate these tasks.

To create an Automation Anywhere job, see Creating a Job. For more information about this plug-in, see Control-M for Automation Anywhere.

The following table describes the Automation Anywhere job attributes.

Attribute

Description

Connection Profile

Determines the authorization credentials that are used to connect Control-M to Automation Anywhere, as described in Automation Anywhere Connection Profile Parameters.

Rules:

  • Characters: 1−30

  • Case Sensitive: Yes

  • Invalid characters: Blank spaces.

Automation Type

Determines the type of automation to execute, either a Bot or a Process.

Bot to Run

(Bot Automation) Defines the bot name.

Process to Run

(Process Automation) Defines the process name.

Process URI Path

(Process Automation) Defines the URI path of the folder that contains the process to execute.

Use / as the separator in this path—not \.

Example:  Bots/TEST/Folder1

Connection Timeout

Defines the maximum number of seconds to wait for REST API requests to respond, before disconnecting.

Default: 10

Status Polling Frequency

(Optional) Defines the number of seconds to wait before checking the status of the job.

Default: 5

Bot Input Parameters

(Optional, for Bot Automation) Defines optional input parameters, in JSON format, to use during bot execution.

You can define the following parameter types:

  • STRING

  • NUMBER

  • BOOLEAN

  • LIST

  • DICTIONARY

  • DATETIME

For more information about the syntax of the JSON-format input parameters, see the description of the botInput element in a Bot Deploy request in the Automation Anywhere API documentation.

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{
   "Param1":
   {
      "type": "STRING",
      "string": "Hello world"
   },
   "NumParam":
   {
      "type": "NUMBER",
      "integer": 11
   }
}

For no parameters, specify {}.

UI Path Job

UiPath is a robotic process automation (RPA) software, which enables you to create bots that observe human actions in the digital workplace, identify repetitive rules-based tasks, and automate these tasks.

To create a UI Path job, see Creating a Job. For more information about this plug-in, see Control-M for UiPath.

The following table describes the UiPath job attributes.

Attribute

Description

Connection Profile

Determines the authorization credentials that are used to connect Control-M to UI Path, as described in UiPath Connection Profile Parameters.

Rules:

  • Characters: 1−30

  • Case Sensitive: Yes

  • Invalid Characters: Blank spaces.

Variable Name: %%INF-ACCOUNT

Folder Name

Determines the name of the UiPath folder where UiPath projects are stored.

Folder ID

Determines the identification number for the UiPath folder.

Process Name

Determines the name of a UiPath process associated with the UiPath folder.

Package Key

Determines the UiPath package that is published from the UiPath Studio to the UiPath Orchestrator.

Robot Name

Determines the UiPath robot name.

Robot ID

Determines the identification number for the UiPath Robot.

Optional Input Parameters

Defines optional input parameters, in JSON format, that are passed to the job at execution.

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{"parm1": "val1", "parm2": "val2", "parm3": "val3"}

Polling Frequency

(Optional) Determines the number of seconds to wait before checking the status of the job.

Default: 15