Add assigned studio users to an unattended robot

In RPA Hub, assign one or more users (RPA developers or RPA admins) to an unattended robot, so that the users can access the specific robot in the Assigned Bot Process section of the RPA Desktop Design Studio application.

Before you begin

Familiarise yourself with the Assigned Bot Process feature in RPA Desktop Design Studio. For more information, see Assign bot process to an automation project.

Only users with RPA developer or RPA admin roles can be associated to a robot.

Role required: sn_rpa_fdn.rpa_release_manager or sn_rpa_fdn.rpa_admin

About this task

The Assign Bot Process feature provides a capability for the users to access the bot process information (such as queues, process parameters, and so on) in RPA Hub and debug the automation in the RPA Desktop Design Studio. The users listed in the Assigned Studio Users tab can utilize the robots from RPA Desktop Design Studio, depending on the associated bot process access.

This helps in impersonating as a robot, so that the following benefits are achieved from the RPA Desktop Design Studio:

• Get the process and shared parameters
• Interact with work items and other RPA Hub related components (wherever applicable).

You can select a robot for impersonating as a robot in two ways. One way is by enabling sn_rpa_fdn.restrict_robots_in_assign_bot_process_by_machine_name system property. Then, the robots assigned to the bot process are filtered based on the robot machine name, where the RPA Desktop Design Studio is launched. For example, if the user launches the RPA Desktop Design Studio from the ABC robot machine, then the user can access only the ABC robot machine.

For more information about this system property, see Configure RPA Hub properties.

Important:

The users listed in the Assigned Studio Users tab are purged based on the time interval defined. The default time interval is 4 hours.

To change the time interval, enter sys_auto_flush.LIST in the navigation filter and search for the sn_rpa_fdn_assigned_studio_user table name. Modify the value in the Age in seconds field. To deactivate this setting, clear the Active check box. Only admins can access the sys_auto_flush.LIST table.

The other way is by adding one or more users to an unattended robot from the Assigned Studio Users tab in RPA Hub. To do so, perform this task.

Procedure

1. Navigate to All > Robotic Process Automation > RPA Hub Workspace.
2. Select the list icon ().
3. On the Lists tab, under Administration, select Robots.
4. Open the robot that you want to associate a studio user to.
5. On the Assigned Studio Users tab, select Add.
6. On the Available Studio Users tab, select the required user.
7. Select Add.
8. Select Save.