Queue item distribution among robots

[shetyetejas557]

Hi All,

I want to know how to distribute queue items on diff-different machines as in how to make sure that item processed by one robot should not get processed by another. Can someone guide me through the mechanism?

[Srini84 (Srinivas)]

@shetyetejas557

distribute queue items on diff-different machines

@shetyetejas557

Check below for your reference

Processing Items in Queues using multiple bots

we are running many business process on multi-bot configurations, where one script is assigned to one bot to load items in a queue. A reframework process is used by many bots to pick up queue items which can be processed concurrently by multiple bots, that is not a problem as orchestrator & queue logic manage this for us. Now, we want to build a business process that manages better system exceptions including system unavailability. I’m currently looking at building a process that leverages tr…

Hope this may help you

Thanks

[shetyetejas557]

thanks @Srini84 but my doubt is still unclear
what if multiple robots are processing items ? how to make sure that item already processed is not picked by another robot or multiple robots are processing same item at the same time?

[Srini84 (Srinivas)]

@shetyetejas557

In the Get Queue Item, always put the status which is “New”, So if the robot pick the transaction then the status will be Inprogress not New

Hope this may help you

Thanks

[lakshman (Ganta lakshman)]

@shetyetejas557

Use Get Transaction Item activity in your process. It will pick the item with status New from Queue and then will change the status to Inprogess. By this way, it won’t pick the already processed item again.

[shetyetejas557]

Thanks @Srini84 @lakshman I will try and let you know