AddQueueItem api

[rahulraj987 (rahul)]

Hi All,

I am trying to use AddQueueItem api. I am new to this orchestrator api area. Is it possible to add a file(JSON) as a queue item? or I have to somehow extract value from JSON make it a key value pair and send to the queue. I cannot do this inside the robot?

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

Hi @rahulraj987

Of course it is possible
You can pass your json string as one of the arguments of the Add Queue Item activity.

You can then retrieve it by using this example syntax:

transactionItem.SpecificContent("jsonSample").ToString

[rahulraj987 (rahul)]

this in connection with below discussion

Service Request Automation

In that case, you could indeed have one robot running two processes interchangeably: Check dedicated folder for new files, process them, add items to the queue and then Run the robot that will process the added queue items

To make my question more clear.
I will be receiving continuous emails throughout the day with JSON as attachment. My question was whether we can pass that file itself to the queue. Then my robots can take that JSON and extract info and proceed with the process. In above explanation you are talking about passing JSON string?I am a little confused there

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

Indeed, I think you will need to read the json file to a string and pass that string as a queue item.