Run a robot without internet connection. Is possible?

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Hi @_userdoleandro,

Yes, I agree with @loginerror. A UiPath Studio robot can run both with or without internet.

When you want an airgap automation, UiPath allows both Attended (Logged in User triggered) and Unattended (Task manager trigger or localhost triggered) automation of any robot built via UiPath Studio.

Every Studio or Robot installation ships with the UiRobot.exe both in Community and Enterprise versions. This .exe file can start any .xaml file.

An example:

"C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\UiPath\app-20.10.2\UiRobot.exe" execute --file "C:\Users\%username%\Documents\UiPath\ForumAnswers\IEnumerableUiElement.xaml"

I have pseudo codes here in this thread for robots to be triggered from .net or task manager: SCHEDULING THROUGH TASK MANAGER - #5 by jeevith

In your case, probably the robot process can be triggered by the staff at the vehicle weighing port. A simple button GUI in any programming language can be linked to start your robot process.

The only draw back of such automations are that there is no way of having an overview of what happened during robot executions. You will still get access to execution logs in the individual machines (because Nlog logs to a given local log file), but this would mean that to know what exceptions occurred, the developers will need access to the robot logs, which may be cumbersome.

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