Master Bot Assign A Job To A Slave Bot

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mcandrewe

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Hi,
How can I go about assigning a job to another bot. I am developing a process which will read tickets and pull details. However, I want this bot to simply assign the job to a bot that is currently free?

To give a bit more detail.
I have a process which will open up the ticketing system in our company. It will open a ticket and decide if it is for an automated process. I want a different bot to then run it, as I want this bot to continue monitoring the queue.

Regards
 
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bot1robot

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@mcandrewe
You may maintain a pool via database table that updates status of every robots who is free once its last stage / page / process is executed.
While starting new robot , check which ever robot is free based on database table and assign task to free robot.

Hope this helps.

Pls Mark thread as solved once it is solved.
 
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mcandrewe

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bot1robot said:
@mcandrewe
You may maintain a pool via database table that updates status of every robots who is free once its last stage / page / process is executed.
While starting new robot , check which ever robot is free based on database table and assign task to free robot.

Hope this helps.

Pls Mark thread as solved once it is solved.
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Thanks, how do you assign the task though? Is there some action for this?
 
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bot1robot

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@mcandrewe

As per your scenario

I assume , assigning the job to another bot is Calling another Bot (Process) from current (Master) process.

This assignment can be done via process stage .

Hope this give more visibility .
 
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mcandrewe

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bot1robot said:
@mcandrewe

As per your scenario

I assume , assigning the job to another bot is Calling another Bot (Process) from current (Master) process.

This assignment can be done via process stage .

Hope this give more visibility .
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Apologies, but this is actually what I'm attempting to ask in my question! I don't understand how to create this process?
 
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bot1robot

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@mcandrewe

If I understand your question correctly , then

You need to call another process (Slave Robot) From your current Process .

Same I tried to achieve via Process stage as highlighted in yellow.

Hope this is what you are looking for .

If things are not clear , then could you share your problem statement again with max details possible along with what you have achieved till now.

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mcandrewe

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bot1robot said:
@mcandrewe

If I understand your question correctly , then

You need to call another process (Slave Robot) From your current Process .

Same I tried to achieve via Process stage as highlighted in yellow.

Hope this is what you are looking for .

If things are not clear , then could you share your problem statement again with max details possible along with what you have achieved till now.

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Thanks, however I do not understand the process step in your diagram. How do I configure this to assign a job to a bot? What does the process it's referencing look like/do?
 
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mcandrewe

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bot1robot said:
@mcandrewe
BP Version 6.2 have a process stage in which you can call another process(fully).

By Using this process stage you can call another processes.

Here in diagram I dragged three processes Slave Robot 1 , Slave Robot 2 , Slave Robot 3 .

I configured Slave Robot 1 To call Another process (robot) as shown in fig.

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Thank you, do I have to download this process from the Blueprism site. Currently when I go to the process stage I can only see a list of all my existing processes as well as some example ones that we downloaded at the very begining.
 
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bot1robot

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@mcandrewe

I believe , its not needed to download process from blueprism website as it is already present in the toolbox .

From list of all existing processes (Slave Robots) You can call required process.

Hope this helps.
 
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mcandrewe

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bot1robot said:
@mcandrewe

I believe , its not needed to download process from blueprism website as it is already present in the toolbox .

From list of all existing processes (Slave Robots) You can call required process.

Hope this helps.
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Apologies if this is a stupid question. But I don't seem to have any folder called Toolbox?
 
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Anton Hosang

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bot1robot, I believe mcandrewe wants to start a process to run on another resource.
Am I right mcandrewe? If so, then you can call the command automatec via command prompt
 
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mcandrewe

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Anton Hosang said:
bot1robot, I believe mcandrewe wants to start a process to run on another resource.
Am I right mcandrewe? If so, then you can call the command automatec via command prompt
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Hi Anton, I think you may be right. I want to run a process which will check our ticketing system. When it finds a ticket I want it to decide which job it is, I then want it to tell another bot to do that job. Can you tell me how to do this?
 
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Anton Hosang

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Can we all clarify the jargon?
I am unsure of what is referred to by 'bot'.

If you want another machine to run a process, then you could create calculated parameters to the automatec executable command:

'Start Process' Action of Environment VBO:
Application: "automatec"
Arguments: "/run ""Test Process"" /user BPUsername BPPassword /resource Other_Resource_Machine_Name /startp "<inputs><input name='Ticket' type='text' value='A123456'/></inputs>"
 
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mcandrewe

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Anton Hosang said:
Can we all clarify the jargon?
I am unsure of what is referred to by 'bot'.

If you want another machine to run a process, then you could create calculated parameters to the automatec executable command:

'Start Process' Action of Environment VBO:
Application: "automatec"
Arguments: "/run ""Test Process"" /user BPUsername BPPassword /resource Other_Resource_Machine_Name /startp "<inputs><input name='Ticket' type='text' value='A123456'/></inputs>"
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Currently we have 8 VDI's which we refer to as bots? They all run processes using the blueprism scheduler. I want to remove the scheduler element. So that a bot can load ticket number's into it's work queue and get that process to run on a different bot? It can then go to the next ticket assign that to a different bot and so the two tickets are being ran parallel to each other. Is this possible?
 
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Anton Hosang

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Ahhh yes! Different VDIs (runtime resources).

Use the Start Process Action as above. Create the argument string and feed it as a parameter to the 'Start Process' Action.
 
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