Problem with triggering a robot via Orchestrator API

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I writing to you in connection with a problem that I face when I’m trying to trigger a robot from Orchestrator via API. According to documentation on About OData and References starting a robot via API is possible after passing several arguments to the parameters like: ‘ReleaseKey’, ‘Strategy’, ‘RobotIds’, ‘NoOfRobots’ in the picture below. Additionally, I configured authorization as instructed on UiPath Orchestrator API : Authentication - #12 by aksh1yadav what helped me go through the first type of error - an error that says I’m not signed in. However, I encountered another type of error namely – ‘Parameter ‘name’ is missing’. I tried to search everywhere what type of parameter the ‘name’ is, however with no result. Only ‘name’ parameter that I found was the one that I saw when entering on https://platform.uipath.com/odata/Releases, however after copying it to the request builder parameters section – nothing happened. Please give me your feedback on this situation and potential hints what to do next to be able to trigger a robot via Orchestrator API.

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Your request looks good.
Can you please tell me if the names of the below are defined in orchestrator?

  1. Robot Name
  2. Release Name
  3. Environment Name
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Hi , I have the same issue

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Hi all!

Any news about this issue? I’m having the same one…

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Dani

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Hi again!

I have got the solution with the help of a colleague (Many thanks to Joe Lasher!!).

As the documentation explains, all the input values should be inside a unique parameter “startInfo”:

{
“startInfo”: {
“ReleaseKey”: “xxx”,
“Strategy”: “All”,
“RobotIds”: ,
“NoOfRobots”: 0
}
}

I think the best way to avoid these problems is using Swagger UI for testing the REST API and don’t use the HTTP Request Wizard that could be confusing.

Regards,
Dani

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@Alin_Pintilie @adams2121 @Daniel_Martinez-Cace

Did you ever find a solution to this?

Thanks,
Brad

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Hi Brad!

Did you check the above message?

Regards,
Dani