"Robot delete or environment change" results in "Schedule edits"

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Hi,

I thought I would throw this idea out there, because it is occurring sometimes and could get worse down the road.

When someone deletes a Robot or simply changes its Environment, every single Schedule that is set up to run on that specific Robot has it unchecked and must be fixed after. This requires that Robot managers and developers to put in place additional processes for preventing those changes that cause scheduled jobs to not run the next time.

Workarounds:

  • Deal with the known issue until you can use the “Number of Robots” parameter instead of Specific Robot
  • Just don’t delete the Robot or change its Environment… ever.
  • Document all the details for Scheduled Jobs to fall back on when edits are made, and ensure that the Robots are checked again from those details for each Schedule that would be affected.

I think editing the Environments might be a common thing to do and there are benefits to it like disabling jobs from accessing that Robot temporarily or making eventual structural changes. Soon, a team might have 100 schedules so fixing them will become a very tedious task.

Possible solution? When a Robot Environment changes keep it checked but only hidden from the Robot list while running a job or schedule, so it can just be made visible again when the Environment gets changed back.

i don’t know if this will make it into the priority list but thanks for reading.

Thanks!

Clayton.

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Not exactly your case, but I had this issue on Day 1 for all the schedules after we upgraded to 2017.1 which I think is Obvious to set the robots again. Below was the error (might help others)

schedule #ScheduleName for process #ProcessName could not start. Undefined robots

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hmmm…not sure if to invest on this…

  • now we have schedules on n robots within an environment
  • we’ll add jobs per environment - as of now when a schedule is triggered the bot is right away choosen

my view is that scheduling per specific robot does not make sense and all the bots within an environment should be able to run a specific job.