Trigger Points.

[SimphiweTshezi]

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.

[IsmoLehtiniemi]

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.

[SimphiweTshezi]

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

[JerinJose]

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

[EVIPUTI]

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