Process execution paused

[kevinpscott (Kevin Scott)]

Hello automation friends! I have been seeing this happen intermittently with a number of automations.

Can anyone help me understand what might be causing the automation to pause and then resume itself? It’s simple interaction with a website. In this case the pause happened during the login process, but it happened intermittently during the entire process. Here’s another screenshot during the same run.

I have seen this behavior not just on this specific automation but on others too. There is no human in the loop interaction here or any other reason for the automation to pause during the process.

Any wisdom from the group as to what might be causing this?

[kevinpscott (Kevin Scott)]

Here’s another example during the same process. In this case the robot is interacting with an API.

[kevinpscott (Kevin Scott)]

This continues to be an intermittent problem. Is anyone else experiencing this?

[kevinpscott (Kevin Scott)]

Nobody else is experiencing this?

[Thomas_E_Wright-Field]

My automation is having the “…execution paused” unexpectedly when I’m trying to initiate a Hotkey activity CTRL P to trigger the PRINT feature within my application.

Unfortunately, it just stops there without triggering the print feature nor does it resume. I can only assume so far that it’s my hotkey pausing the automation - but struggling to confirm this as fact.

[kevinpscott (Kevin Scott)]

Well that’s interesting. Mine is happening with an unattended robot, and it’s an intermittent problem.

Would be great to know under what conditions a workflow might be paused.

[kevinpscott (Kevin Scott)]

@Thomas_E_Wright-Field , do you have Ctrl P configured as the hotkey to pause your automation in UiPath Assistant? You might want to double check if that’s what’s causing your issue.

[Thomas_E_Wright-Field]

Brilliant! @kevinpscott - THANK YOU for guiding me to the Automation Assistant preferences… it was there to “Pause/Resume” automation. Very much appreciated.
Cheers! twf