Difference between add queue item and add transaction item

[11162 (Sandy)]

Can anyone help me understand the difference between ‘add queue item’ and ‘add transaction item’?

I learn the difference between ‘get queue item’ and ‘get transaction item’ from this topic.

Difference Between get queue item and get transaction item

Can anyone help me in understanding difference between ‘get queue item’ and ‘get transaction item’? I need my bots to only get those items from the queue which they have added. For eg: 2 bots are working simultaneously putting 6 and 7 items in the queue respectively, then these bots should only fetch and work on the items that they have put in. I can see filter on reference field in ‘Get queue item’ but. ‘Get queue item’ is not locking a ‘new’ item. Thanks, Pratiksha Srivastava

But still don’t understand the difference between ‘add queue item’ and ‘add transaction item’.

Thanks,
Sandy

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

Hi @11162

See if these two articles help you:

Add Queue Item

Add Transaction Item

[Florent_Salendres]

Hi,

You can also have a look on my previous post notably on the subject.
Add transaction item will be useful you do no want to base your solution on a load & work design.

Can a robot start another robot?

Actually both, it depends on the design. You have two available activity to initialize queue items Add queue item & Add transaction Item https://activities.uipath.com/v1.0/docs/queues-add-queue-item https://activities.uipath.com/v1.0/docs/queues-add-transaction-item The first one will add to your Orchestrator queue an item with the Status “new” and will have to be picked from the queue later using “Get Transaction Item” Activity, generally from another process. This Load work approach mainl…

Cheers

[11162 (Sandy)]

Hi @loginerror, @Florent_Salendres

I get it. Thank you for your reply.

[Daun (Daun Lee)]

Hi,

1. When adding a queue item, let’s say a bunch of invoices to process, is it just adding a representation key word e.g., number 6 invoice, and not the actual invoice file?

2. If item becomes transaction after it gets executed, why add/get transaction item? What is the need/reason for it?

In my thoughts, when I receive 100 invoices, I can just upload all of them, the original files(invoices) in a queue after putting the invoices into a shared folder, and then other machines can fetch a portion of them, we can say get queue item.

So, “Add queue item” & “Get queue item” are all we need to use the function queue. Why is the notion of transaction needed? Why did it first appear?

Thanks,
Daniel

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

Hi @Daun

Welcome to our UiPath Forum!

I believe that when you fetch a queue item, it becomes a transaction. This is why you will want to use Get Transaction Item to fetch a single queue item.
This will automatically set the status of that particular transaction (queue item) to In Progress in orchestrator.

[Daun (Daun Lee)]

Hi @loginerror,

Thank you for welcoming me to this virtual society!

Why use Get Transaction Item, when there is Get Queue Item, to fetch a queue item?

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

Actually, there is no Get Queue Item activity. There is only Get Queue Items.

So that would be one reason

I believe the Get Queue Items activity allows you to process queue items in bulk, in case you need to do some modifications. If you want to act on one item from the queue for the purpose of processing that item, Get Transaction Item is much better.

[ppr (Peter Preuss)]

@loginerror @Daun
Add Work Item adds an item to the Work Queue and the item waits for getting processed

Get Queue Item returns a processable item from the queue and changes with this the status indicating that is now in work, but you dont have control which one you get from pool

add transaction item adds an item changes the status, indicating thats is in process. you can directly continue to work with this item

Get Queue Items let you retrieve item based on different filter criterias

In newer Versions some enhancemets are available as well