hello everyone,
this is the scenario: I need to have a robot listening to a folder, on which to start a workflow as soon as a file is available.
The robot needs to be listening all the time, so 24x7, and from that trigger start a workflow.
Since the machine is unattended by a user, I was wondering what would be the best solution: an attended or unattended robot, and why one or the other?
Thanks in advance
Is that a netwrk folder or sharepoint linked?
if sharepoint linked you can have integration service triggers
if network folder then attended model wuld be best or if all the task can be unattended then can go with unattended and schedule the bot in a high frequncy
cheers
is a network folder. the problem is that the machine is not manned by a user so I was wondering if the attended robot could meet the requirements but it would mean starting the robot manually and letting it run all the time, right?
Also, I work on automation suite and not the cloud version, so I don’t think I can take advantage of the integration service
yes that is how the local triggers would work…like you have option of local triggers which work on attended
if that is not an option then we can schedule robots with high frequency and go with unattended and check network folder if present continue else dont
cheers
Sorry to insist but it is to understand. So I could have a robot attended, log into the machine and get it running so that it’s always running and listening on that folder.
The limitation I see is that if the machine is restarted I would have to log back into the windows server and relaunch the robot, whereas with unattended it would be easier because I could schedule it, say, every 10 minutes.
yes attended you need to login…and yes unattended schedule would be a better option
cheers