I have a robot created in Studio and published to Orchestrator but I can’t manage to run it as an unattended robot.
I can create the robot and create a process but when I try to run the process the robot I created is not visible.
tl;dr
My experience has been that the Environment creation and subsequent robot association is typically the step missed when creating a UiPath robot. Check that first. Hopefully the solution will be as simple as addressing that.
/tl;dr
Robot creation
There's a fair bit to unpack here, and while there are a few places you can go wrong when you create UiPath robots, it's not a particularly onerous task once you've done it a few times.
Here's how you do it, from start to finish:
Publish your code to Orchestrator
Create a machine in Orchestrator and connect to it with UiPath Assistant
Create the unattended robot
Add the robot to an environment
Create the process to map the code to the robot
It seems like you've got step 1 and 2 down, as you can't publish without a machine created and UiPath Assistant configured. So the issue is somewhere in steps 3, 4 and 5.
Here's what the page to create an unattended robot looks like:
Errors commonly occur on this page. Please make sure:
The robot is of type unattended, not Studio or StudioPro. Support for those is going away
Make sure the Machine* name maps exactly to the hostname of the machine on which the robot will run
Make sure the Domain\username field maps exactly to the results of the whomai command in a command prompt
Make sure the password is for the account used for the username listed in the whomai call. This is not the UiPath Orchestrator password. It is the password for the Windows machine running the robot
Don't forget the environment tab
After you create the robot, make sure you go to the Environment tab, create an environment, and associate the robot with that environment. This step is commonly missed, and without it, your robot will not show up when you go to run your process. My guess is this is most likely the missing step.
With the robot created, the environment configured, and the UiPath Assistant configured with a connection to the machine listed in the management section of UiPath Orchestrator, you should be able to create a new UiPath process, and when you go to run the process, the robot you just created will be listed as a possible job target.
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So I have created an xaml flow which clicks browser buttons downloads files and then does some basic operations. I setup a windows server and connected remotely to it and when I debug my process automation while staying on the screen it works smoothly, problem is that I can't keep my pc on forever so when I just minimize the file even though my system remains up and running:
The UI Path process kills as the button press times out. I was just curious to know if it's compulsory to keep screen up for the ui based process automation to run through or is there a way to initiate the process and then close the screen and let the system do its job?
This is the eror I get which is like first UI interaction:
Here are the steps I have performed:
Created an unattended robot with machine as the remote instance name.
Created an environment and connected with the robot created in step 1.
Setup UIPath Assistant using machine key and URL.
Published the files and then created the process in cloud console.
Ran it from cloud console.
The process faults at its first UI interaction. Even though it was running in unattended robot form.
Thanks in advance.
AFAIK this is intended by the licensing model of UiPath. So to solve the issue you need a license for the VM of your RDP connection that allows the unattended usage.
Another idea could be to start the process in the PIP (picture-in-picture) mode. But I have never tested that, so this might also not work.
But maybe you already have a license like that and could test that out.
These are our types:
Solution for UiPath Studio 20.4 or higher
For my Use Case Picture in Picture mode worked correctly. Thanks #kwoxer for the suggestions, though his answer was enough but I am adding it up here for those who may need future reference.
So If you're facing issues with automating user interactions in dynamic JavaScript Website over a cloud server that loads on demand (When you minimize or close your remote session, the process times out as it's not able to find the UI component), here are the simple steps to follow:
Goto Debug options on top and select picture in picture as shown below:
This basically lets the bot start the system from another node. Now when you run the system and even close the remote connection, the automation process including all sorts of UI interaction will work like charm. Please let me know in case someone faces the issues with the same. Would love to help!
I am trying to create an image of the windows VM by mounting the SCCM image capture tool to the VM and running the Image Capture Wizard from the Removal Storage (D drive) where the image capture tool was attached.
I am aware of the manual steps that I have to go through of the image capture wizard but I want to script these steps. Is there a command line / powershell way to automate these where I can enter the destination , account name and password and get the image captured. Screenshots of the steps that I wish to automate.
The official way to get automated capture would be building a fully automated build and capture task sequence. The official ms documentation would be here but you can also find many more detailed unofficial guides for this like this one for example.
The idea here is that you deploy an operating system from source image, then automatically install updates, install all software you want via applications or programs, change all settings via scripts and automatically capture the output again as a sysprepped os image for further osd. The whole thing is completely unattended (in theory up to the point where you could configure your vm in a way that it would capture an image on every start)
If you want to only automate the capture but not the build you should be able to just use half of this TS, namely the capture part.
While this is fully automated and can be done unattended it is not per se really thought to be triggered via command line. You can probably script a task sequence trigger but it is not how the system was intended so I would not really recommend going this way if this is your first time using sccm.
I wanted to setup a computer with a variety of settings which I basicly have to do over and over and over again everytime a new user joins our company or changes the computer and I wanted to know if there was a possible way to configure those with a script like I already did with an information colletor script (batch file) and which now works perfectly fine thanks to this webside.
So since I know that here are some really awesome IT Guys with way more experience then me I would love to so something automatic as the next step to save loads of time by simply running a script to configure things like setting up the screensaver, InternetOptions, removing Apps/Softwarelinks in the Start Menu or perhaps even adding links to the bookmark list in firefox or chrome so the user can just start to work and I got loads of time for other important things.
For now it would already be a help to setup a script for Windows 7 but I think we will move more and more to windows 10 so would it be possible to write something to use on both systems without any big changes?
... configure things like setting up the screensaver, InternetOptions,
removing Apps/Softwarelinks in the Start Menu or perhaps even adding
links to the bookmark list in firefox or chrome so the user can just
start to work and I got loads of time for other important things.
Everything you ask about can be configured in a centralized fashion via Active Directory Group Policy. Check the Group Policy Survival Guide page to get started designing the policy for your organization and users.
Group Policy can be defined using PowerShell and via Group Policy Management Console which is GUI-based.
Note that the above will only work if you are in Active Directory domain. If you are not, you still can use Local Group Policy, but you will have to run a script on every user's computer. I am not sure whether there are native PowerShell cmdlets to manage Local Group Policy, but AFAIK you can do that via Windows Registry or using special tools.
I need to perform some tasks related to workflow customization.
Currrently, I am using the Workflow Script Editor to add a vbscript.
Can the same thing be achieved without logging in to HP ALM and without using the script editor.
Say, I have the vbscript ready with me, can I place it in proper location inside HP ALM folder and register, if required..?
Can anybody help me with the steps to be performed to achieve the same functionality as the Workflow script editor does, but I need to do it manually without HP ALM log in ?
Short answer:
It is possible, but not into some ALM Folder on the client. You need to include a VBS file that would be stored on a shared folder. This is ugly and if you have the ALM Edition, it is better to rely on the template mechanism.
Long answer:
First of all, you need to understand how the Workflow Script works. The VBScript that you write with Workflow Script Editor is executed on the various computer of the connected Quality Center (or QC, TD, ALM, PC 11+, etc.) users. It is not executed on the server side.
In line with the first point The Workflow Script is called when some events are triggered. For example, when a field changes or when a user access a module, create a new object, etc. And again, I speak about a connected user and this piece of code is executed on its computer. Morvever Workflow Script can change some part of the web ui. For example, you can hide or show a field or make a field mandatory.
#TheBlastOne suggested to have a look at ALM´s automation interface. But if OTA (Open Test Architecture) allows you to perform all actions that can be done manually on QC web user interface, it doesn't allow you to create a code that will be trigered by the actions of connected users. Because OTA is executed on your computer.
Can I place it in proper location inside HP ALM folder and register, if required..? You cannot easily modify most of the files in the repository of a project. ALM can emulate an FTP server to read the content of a project's repository but you cannot access anymore to the VB scripts since QC11. And remember that Workflow Script is project specific.
Well, easy answer: yes you can.
You have to activate ftp on admin site (just create the "FTP_PORT" parameter in Site Adminstration with the FTP port you want to use - 2121 or 21), and you can connect to the QC FTP Server with a client like Total Commander with :, and identify with your user and password, but I think you have to be Site Administrator - more information in QC documentation on Admin parameters: FTP_PORT.
Once connected, you'll se a tree with domains/projects, and for each project, different folders. The one for workflow scripts is ... "Scripts".
My current project uses Visual Studio 2010 and TOAD. It is an MVC project with Oracle 11g. I can get the SQL I am producing with logging and or debugging, however, since I already have a TOAD license I would love to be able to use the Tools for Oracle product, SQL Tracker to get the SQL in runtime without having to use logging or break points.
I assume I need to use the devenv.exe (VS executable) process but I cannot get it to add to the SQL Tracker tool. I get the error:
cannot create process; error=[740] (the requested operation requires elevation.)
Any google search says it has to do with running as admin. I have tried to include the Command-line argument of "RUNAS Administrator" (as well as a variety of other options) with no luck.
Update:
I am now able to Start monitoring the devenv.exe process. In order to do this I needed to run the applications as administrator before I even started SQL Tracker. However, no output is being captured.
I think I probably need to monitor the IIS process instead (w3wp.exe). When I click to start monitoring this process I now get the error:
Failed to create remote thread; error=8 (Not enough storage is available to process this command.)
I believe monitoring IIS is the correct approach, however, this error is now holding me up. Again google is not helping and I am running everything as Administrator.
Root cause could be many reasons but one thing that I suspect is caching on IIS. You can start from looking there.
Here are few things that you can try out.
http://forums.iis.net/t/1150494.aspx?w3wp+exe+memory+usage+is+out+of+control
Running Studio as admin will not necessarily run your project as admin too, imagine the security hole. I am fairly confident you can make your project run as administrator by modifying the manifest. There is an article on here at Forcing an application to Admin from config file but no one ever confirmed whether the answer was right or not, but that does not mean its not. I have noticed on a number of occasions a C# answer gets preference over a VB.NET one on stackoverflow.