Dan,
To your first point, I don't know of any direct way to find status once it's kicked off. Indirectly, you can do so through the BP app server, Windows Event Logs, the audit/session logs, and other secondary sources.
There's no direct way to shut down a resource, but there are both primary and secondary ways to shut down a process. First, there's the "/requeststop" command line parameter for AutomateC which politely asks a process to die (the process has to be built to acknowledge the request). Similary, there are secondary ways - using a purpose-built process, for example - to update flag variables or queue items to put a different process into a finalized state and convince it to end gracefully.
At an extreme, you can always just use a Windows command line/power shell command to kill the proces.
The easiest way to pass a collection like that, honestly, may be to do something like pass JSON in as a single string and then parse it inside the process. I believe it's possible to pass in collections but it's a more complex XML structure, if I remember rightly. Take a look at how data is stored inside work queue items - I believe it's the same structure?
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Robin Toll
Senior Technical Consultant
Blue Prism
Professional Services Americas
Infrastructure & Architecture Specialist
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