I was discussing UiPath with some other folks within my company and received a question about having an external system trigger the launch and running of a UiPath program. Is this possible? I think that there is the ability to schedule UiPath programs to run at a certain time, but I was unsure of …

Hello cpolicastro The only external trigger we have right now is modifying a System folder which the running robot is monitoring However, the robots in general can be started via API, so you can use two types of Web Services to start them, or Powershell, etc So you could create a trivial piece of…

External System Triggers

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badita (Mihai Badita) February 23, 2017, 5:09pm 4

Quick notes:

we’re not offering support for Robot API
the recommended way in enterprise is to use the Orchestrator API or Queueing mechanism - Invoke another Robot/Process in asynchronous mode - #5 by badita

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External System Triggers

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