Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Hi everybody,  I am new to Appian and I am learning RPA using the Community Edition Site. I would like to retrieve (for example using an Expression) the list of the RPA Bots that I defined in the RPA Platform, and I was wondering if there's any built in function that I can use, or if any of you could suggest the best approach to implement it.  Alternatively I found this API https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/20.3/rpa-7.4/api/get-robotic-process-list.html. Am I allowed to call this Api with a Community Edition License? Do I have to create an Http Integration like any other external Api?  Thanks in advance,Franco

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Hello Guys, I am getting the below error while starting/initiating my RPA agent in ubuntu, seems like a access issue but couldn't resolve it. Thanks in advance

hi all how to read data from Appian  Queue - using Web API call

Hi All, I have recently got a chance to go through the academy course on Appian RPA Excel Data Provider and it is really good.   I'm looking to build simple use cases like read excel file and store it in PV only by using low code modules. I attempted to use features like - Initialization with URL - Initialization with File Parameter - Get Current Item attribute by name/column. is there an academy course/documentation available to use the ExcelMap data provider and how to configure every feature provided in it. I'm looking for this for other low code modules as well. May be its already available and I'm not able to locate. Please suggest some good documentations / academy courses for this. Thanks,Arjun.

Hi, JFI, I am new to Appian and do not have admin access.  I have excel file as below. I want to read each row and process on it. Please suggest me stepwise process for the same  What I have tried so far is, 1. Created process with Excel data provider template, but when executed as it is, I am getting error as below [ERROR] 2021-08-02 12:30:48 03s (0h) - java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException Caused by: com.novayre.jidoka.client.api.exceptions.JidokaException: Error invoking method 'processItem' .... Thanks in advance, Mohini

Hi, I have downloaded the "Additional RPA Browser Actions" plug in from community.appian.com/.../additional-rpa-browser-actions How to add it to the Appian console and how can I be able to see it in Modules section. Does that need Admin access ?  Please let me know the process to add this plugin Thanks, Mohini

while import the project I face this kind of issue Project build error: Non-resolvable parent POM for com.novayre.jidoka.robot.test:dataprovider.ksk:0.0.1: Failure to transfer com.novayre.jidoka.robot:jidoka-robot-parent:pom:7.4.0 from https://***demo.appiancloud.com/rpa/repo/ was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of jidoka has elapsed or updates are forced. Original error: Could not transfer artifact com.novayre.jidoka.robot:jidoka-robot-parent:pom:7.4.0 from/to jidoka (https://***demo.appiancloud.com/rpa/repo/): Not authorized and 'parent.relativePath' points at wrong local POM Any help will be highly apprciated. Thank you, kannan

Hello! I am using low code to evaluate expressions as you see in the image, but it  is not working when I open a Excel file before using the expression. How can I resolve it? How can I save the workflow or make a backup? Thank you in advance for your support.   Andrea R.

Hi All, I am trying to execute the Appian RPA project test case in Jenkins, however, it displays the following output in the console "No tests to run". In case anyone has faced similar issues please share a workaround. Thanks in advance! Pragya Dwivedi

How knows how to Create a new folder on the" virtual resource" in RPA ? Thank you:)

hi all, unable to import .side into bot, i was trying to build the bot using selenium   FYI, i have attached the screenshot 

As the title says, I would like to be able to extract data from a pdf or word document using RPA. I know Appian has the IDP app, however that requires google AI and a different setup.  What I want to do is extract data from a PDF document, such as an invoice, and input the data into an excel document. Is this possible with RPA? If so, does anyone have any examples?

Hello everyone, I have created a bot to do mathematical operation, will open a notepad and calculator, add two numbers (say n1, n2) and save result in notepad, switches back to calculator will add two numbers (say n3, n4), switch back to notepad to copy first sum. When execute the bot it has completed steps till addition of n3 and n4 and while switching back to notepad, bot was failed with element not found error though notepad application was opened. Could any one please guide me on how to resolve this issue. Thanks in advance.

Hi, I want to read a list of string say {"A","B","C"}. then For A there will be set of specific actions. after that same  for B and C I was able to setup a process variable and pass one value. Can anyone please help on how can I read all values one by one and loop through. currently I am using variable as below Thanks, Mohini

Hi Everyone, I am working on Integration with Appian to RPA Bot by using Execute Robotic Process Smart Service but it is working not with Activity Chaining in process model. There is another flow in my process model which needs to be executed after the first flow but Appian doesn't allow Activity Chaining in Execute Robotic Process smart service. I have attached screenshot of the Process Model in which first flow is validation and second one is submit. For Integration i need to remove activity chaining before the Execute Robotic Process Smart service, due to this second flow doesn't work/execute. Can anyone suggest solution for this. Thanks.

Who can explain this statement better : "If you're not working on the resource already, copy the AppianRPAagent.exe file to the resource after it has finished downloading."I am wondering if it means that one still need to add "AppianRPAagent.exe " back to the resource created after downloading it to our physical PC , if yes, then how or to where in the resource ? Here is the screenshot of a typical resource : 

Well, Im doing a process model. As an output of my RPA process I can have the execution id as Process Variable. I want to pass this variable to an appian integration to have the result. But it doesn't work, how can I do that?  Thank you so much.

Hi everyone, Robotic processes are missing under RPA integration drop down. Can someone help on why this behavior. This is the screenshot for clarification of the issue:

Following our deprecation of Nexus in our 7.7 release, we plan to fully remove Nexus in the near future. To ensure any robots you have don't break, please follow the migration steps to switch your default repository. 

The Maven settings doesn't look like it was well configured after inputting the required parameters. Can anyone please help out. Thank you.

Has anyone received this error before in their execution logs "Reason to abort execution was NO_DATA_RECEIVED"? Below is a snapshot of the execution logs. This is on a Windows 2019 VM that I'm running the bot on. I've had multiple successful runs prior to this. So, I'm wondering what this error means, and why I'm suddenly getting it, without any change in code.

Hi Appian Community, I have a RPA process I run on a Windows 2019 Virtual Machine via VirtualBox, on my MacBook Pro. I've run this process successfully 20+ times which takes around 1 min 20 seconds from start to finish Today, however it took 1 hr and 33 minutes to run, which is odd because I hadn't changed the process or inputs at all. I decided to let it run till it hit an error, and was surprised that it actually finished. Does any one have any input as why RPA processes would be this slow? Or what factors I should look at to make a RPA process faster?  The process itself just goes on a website and tries to grab some values off the site. Below is the execution logs where I noticed the bot just stopped running after it opened the browser and ran through another gateway. And you can see on the next line that it took 44 minutes for the bot to figure out that the "element was not present." It was a very simple gateway that just determined if a browser element

I am unable to download RPA Client. It gets been blocked . Any help/ suggestions would be appreciated

Hi, Anyone override the manageException function for handling any unknown Exception in Appian RPA.I tried it with the below appian documents, however it didn't worked. https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/21.1/rpa-7.8/templates/template-basic-robot.html I was using that method with Browser Module and seeing that method never get invoked in case of unhandled or unknown exception. Regards, Mukesh