Starting a robot from any user

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Dear all,
I’ve built a bot that should retrieve manydata based on some user inputs and save them in a specific shared folder. Basically the idea of the bot would be:

  • Starting the bot from a user’s generic laptop.
  • The bot is asking for: “start date”; “end date”; “company name”.
  • after providing the inputs and pressing “Enter”, those data should be passed as input to an unattended bot and triggering the run of the same unattended bot downloading all the needed data with the given filters in a shared folder.

i’m basically stucked at the point of how to pass these inputs to the unattended bot and to make the unattended bot start.

do you know how this would be possible? I tried searching in the forum but without understanding how this can be made.
thanks

Giorgio

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Hello,
Maybe you could use a queue :
On the attended bot, you will add a new item at the end of the execution
You can configure a scheduler on the orchestrator for the unattended bot based on a queue item trigger so, when the queue item will be created, the unattended bot will be launched and then you can manipulate the queue item in the unattended bot : read data, change status

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@giorgio.tabarellidefatis

you need to use start job activity which will have the required arguments place holder also that are to be sent

cheers

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Thanks for the quick answer, but to start the attended bot on the laptop (since different people on different laptops need to start this bot) how can I Connect to Orchestrator? Thanks again

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@giorgio.tabarellidefatis

Start job is for starting unattended bot

attended bot can be started from UiPath assistant that is present on respective user machines

cheers

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yes, but again it’s not clear to me how to start it on the respective user machines.
do i need a license for each user or do i need to set-up the environment in a specific way?
thanks

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@giorgio.tabarellidefatis

if you want the user to start the automation that is in attended mode and on user machine…then you need separate license for each…from orchestrator you can start only uanttended automations and generally they are not on user machines

cheers