Automation Anywhere Job parameters

The following table describes parameters for an Automation Anywhere job, which performs robotic process automation (RPA).

Parameter

Description

Connection profile

Determines which connection profile is used to connect to Automation Anywhere.

Automation Type

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

Bot to run

(For Bot automation) Defines the Bot name.

Process to run

(For Process automation) Defines the Process name.

Process URI Path

(For Process automation) Defines the URI path of the folder that contains the process to run.

Use the slash character (/) as the separator in this path (not the backslash).

Example: Bots/TEST/Folder1

Connection timeout

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

Default: 10 seconds

Status Polling Frequency

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

Default: 5 seconds

Bot Input Parameters

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

You can define a variety of types of parameters (STRING, NUMBER, BOOLEAN, LIST, DICTIONARY, or 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.

Example:

{

  "Param1":{

    "type": "STRING",

    "string": "Hello world"

  },

  "NumParam":{

    "type": "NUMBER",

    "integer": 11

  }

}

For no parameters, specify {}.

Parent Topic

Job types