Starting an EXISTING Transaction Item via Orchestrator API

[mike.vansickle]

Hey, I’ve been looking into the Orchestrator API and I can create queue items, create new transaction items, etc. But I’m having trouble starting an existing transaction item (i.e. setting it to In Progress). Is this possible? I’ve tried using the odata/Queues/UiPathODataSvc.StartTransaction endpoint but I’ve had no luck… Can I reference a queue item by their unique reference key to start the transaction item?

[BotMonkey (Joseph Guy Tatum)]

It is not possible to manually change it.
However through automation you can achieve it by using Postpone Transaction activity .
You can explore about Postpone Transaction activity to make queue item status change from “Inprogress” to “New” via Automation.

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@aross_innovior

Unfortunately Progress as mentioned is reset as soon as the status is updated to anything other than InProgress.

A work-around could be to set a progress attribute in Output and change Transaction Status, you can use this to pick it up and work with it.

If you wish to delay this at a given level of progress, you can also Postpone Transaction just after the setting the status and it will retain the Output table. However, you can’t extract the Output table from the QueueItem object from the VB.net object they’ve made. However you can use the API to extract it as follows in the HTTP GET request Orchestrator activity:

"odata/QueueItems?$filter=Reference eq '<<<insert reference value here>>>'"

Then deserialize the JSON using the UiPath Web Activities module then filter down to Output using:

jsonDictionaryDeserializedVariable("value")(0)("Output")("<<<Output field value>>>")