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Trigger Points.

SimphiweTshezi — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:37:49 GMT

Hi All,
Is it possible to create trigger points that will run the Bots (processes) automatically as opposed to scheduling them to constantly run checks on those trigger points (e.g excel files)? Many thanks.

Re: Trigger Points.

IsmoLehtiniemi — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 11:54:47 GMT

When it comes to the BP versions before v.7, AutomateC.exe can be used for starting processes/schedules, which enables some nice options for "dynamic" triggering. Version 7 should have some native API options, which could be considered.

For example, if a process takes its input from an email message, Outlook can be configured to run a .bat -file (which contains AutomateC -command) when a specific email is received.

Or if a process needs to be started when a new file is added to a shared drive -folder, it is possible to create i.e. a PowerShell -script which will trigger AutomateC -command, when a new file is added to the target folder.

And it is possible to even create scripts to trigger schedules when a file is added to a SharePoint -site, but things like that would be much more complex to do compared to the two examples above.

Re: Trigger Points.

SimphiweTshezi — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 06:41:18 GMT

Thank you so much for your response Ismo, I'll surely explore your given options.

Re: Trigger Points.

JerinJose — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 07:33:30 GMT

Use of AutomateC can be applied even with older-versions of blueprism additional benefit of V7 would be availability of REST API's to achieve the same

Re: Trigger Points.

EVIPUTI — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 17:08:13 GMT

We can expose any blue prism process/object as a webservice which can be called/triggered/consumed by any third party software which can consume a webservice. You can find the details about how to expose a process/object as webservice in the webservice guide on Blueprism portal.
Or
Windows Command Line (cmd.exe) is used to execute AutomateC.exe ( C:\Program Files\Blue Prism Limited\Blue Prism Automate\AutomateC.exe) program with additional parameters that specify the Process and the Resource in addition to other configurations. This approach allows 3rd party Schedulers to start a Blue Prism Process.

Examples of Usage of AutomateC

1- Start ProcessA on Resource0001 using Active Directory single sign-on:

C:\Program Files\Blue Prism Limited\Blue Prism Automate\AutomateC.exe
/dbconname ServerA.testDomain.com /run ProcessA /resource Resource0001 /port 8181 /sso