File Trigger

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Hello
I was wondering if there is a way to create a file trigger without using a full-time unattended robot to monitor the folder. Something more like the Gmail triggers that start a process without consuming a robot.
Thank you!

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Hi @THodgson

I think there is no option for this without using full attended or unattended license.

Maybe you can achieve this using a combination of UiPath bot + poweshell script

1 → the bot runs and starts the monitoring script.

2 → when you want to stop the monitoring action, you run it again to stop the powershell script.

In powershell script you can set the desired folder to be monitoring and set the action type (create, modified etc). For each created file, you call Orchestrator API and add a queue item to starts the performer bot

Cheers

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you can implement such trigger with vba script/macro in excel and pair with windows integrated taskplaner.
i wont trigger whenever a new file is added to the folder, but you can tell the planer to run your script every minute for example and update your view.

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Awesome, thank you, I will try that out!

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Thank you! I will try that out as well!