What's the difference between Start Job activity and using Orchestrator HTTP Request Activity to call API?

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What’s the difference between Start Job activity and using Orchestrator HTTP Request Activity to call API to start job?

My understanding is…
Authentication

  • Start Job doesnt require authentication.
  • Orchestrator HTTP Request does.

Capability

  • Start Job only starts job
  • Orchestrator HTTP Request can do many things if you combine and passing Json data…

If my understanding is correct, then I really have no idea why people ever use Orchestrator HTTP Request to start Job…
could anyone help me?

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@Hanna_h,

Here are some documentations related to both :

Both doesn’t required authentication. They will authenticate through the connection in Robot.

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Thank you so much and my apology not to read documentation well…
I suppose that… the easiest way to make Job to execute → Start Job
If the developer want to combine the request with more of them → Orchestrator HTTP Request
but either of them need to set roles of Robot correctly based on the documentation, not authentication.

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Also using Start Job activity does not have a way to send an input parameter (unfortunately), if you need for your process, then have to use httprequest approach.