How to pass the parameter dynamically while starting Appian Processes from RPA console ?

RE: How to pass the parameter dynamically while starting Appian Processes from RPA console ?

kalaivanank0002 — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:28:49 GMT

Hi Antonio,

sorry for late reply.

Create the instruction as per Appian documentation ( https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/20.1/rpa/develop/configuring-a-robotic-process.html#instructions ).

For example, if your instruction name is "instructionField", and your variable name is "variableField" , then the code would be,

Map <String, IRobotVariable> workflowVariables = server.getWorkflowVariables();

workflowVariables.get("variableField").setValue(server.getParameter().get("instructionField"));

Cheers,

Kalai.

RE: How to pass the parameter dynamically while starting Appian Processes from RPA console ?

Antonio Lamanna — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:33:01 GMT

Hello, thank you for yoir post. Can you post here the code of this example? I'm trying to retrieve a email list from outlook..

Thank you

RE: How to pass the parameter dynamically while starting Appian Processes from RPA console ?

kalaivanank0002 — Fri, 15 May 2020 10:53:41 GMT

Thank you so much Sam,

Its working.

Cheers,

Kalai

RE: How to pass the parameter dynamically while starting Appian Processes from RPA console ?

kalaivanank0002 — Fri, 15 May 2020 10:15:13 GMT

Thank you so much Sam,

I'll try this 🙂.

Cheers,

Kalai.

RE: How to pass the parameter dynamically while starting Appian Processes from RPA console ?

sam.merrill — Thu, 14 May 2020 23:52:50 GMT

You can create Robotic Process Variables. You can create them in the Robotic Process Configuration page, and then dynamically set them during your process execution. Checkout the MS Outlook or Browser Scraper Robotic Processes on the App Market. These processes make use of Dynamic Robotic Process Variables.

Please reference the pictures below of the Robotic Process Configuration Page:

Please see the Java code example:

private void setLowCodeVariables(List<String> documentIds){
 Map<String,IRobotVariable> workflowVariables = server.getWorkflowVariables();
 
 // string array
 workflowVariables.get("documentIds").setValue(documentIds.toArray());
 
 // strings
 workflowVariables.get("emailBody").setValue(currentItem.getBody());
 workflowVariables.get("fromEmail").setValue(currentItem.getSenderEmailAddress());
 workflowVariables.get("fromName").setValue(currentItem.getSenderName());
 workflowVariables.get("subject").setValue(currentItem.getSubject());
}

RE: How to pass the parameter dynamically while starting Appian Processes from RPA console ?

kalaivanank0002 — Tue, 12 May 2020 05:46:42 GMT

Good Day Danny,

Thanks for your response,

I got the instruction value by server.getParameters().get("parameter_name") and can you please help me how to pass this value to parameter?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Kalai

RE: How to pass the parameter dynamically while starting Appian Processes from RPA console ?

Danny Verb — Fri, 08 May 2020 14:40:55 GMT

At this time robotic process variables cannot be sent as parameters. To use dynamic values, you should create Instructions on your robotic process. In your process, you can then reference instructions and even map them to robotic process variables. https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/20.1/rpa/develop/configuring-a-robotic-process.html#instructions