View the current robot events on the Robot Calendar tab in RPA Hub for unattended robots. By using the calendar, you can manage and plan a robot's schedule in a single view.
Before you begin
Create an unattended robot. On the robot form, ensure that you select the Robot Type field as Unattended. For more information, see Create an unattended robot in RPA Hub.
Create a schedule within an unattended bot process to view some schedules on the robot calendar. Ensure that one or more active schedules are associated with the robot. For more information, see Create a schedule within a bot process in RPA Hub.
Verify that the life-cycle stage of the associated bot process isn’t set to Retired.
Role required: sn_rpa_fdn.rpa_release_manager, sn_rpa_fdn.rpa_business_user, sn_rpa_fdn.rpa_developer, sn_rpa_fdn.rpa_support_user, or sn_rpa_fdn.rpa_admin
About this task
If a robot is associated to multiple bot processes, the landing page of the robot
calendar is the schedule view of a published bot process. There can be more than one
published bot process associated with a robot.
To view more robot events, add the appropriate Life Cycle Stage
Status filter in the Robot Calendar.
Procedure
Navigate to All > Robotic Process Automation > RPA Hub Workspace.
Select the list icon ().
View a robot calendar either from a robot or from a bot process.
Option
Action
View a robot calendar from a robot
On the Lists tab, under Administration, select Robots.
Open a robot to view the robot calendar.
In the form header, select Robot Calendar.
View a robot calendar from a bot process
On the Lists tab, under Build, select Bot Process.
Open a bot process to view the robot calendar.
In the form header, select Show Robot Calendar.
In the Select the robot to view the calendar dialog box, select a robot from the Robot list.
Select Continue.
On the Robot Calendar tab, perform any of the following
actions.
Option
Action
Today
Highlights the current date.
Date range (<, >)
Select the arrow buttons (<,
>) to view the next calendar view that is
based on the defined date range.
Schedule Timezones
View the time zones that are defined for the robot, such as, the
robot time zone (workstation time zone), user profile time zone, and
schedule time zone. This field is a drop down list.
There can be
multiple schedule time zones, based on various schedules defined
across different time zones.
The time zones are sorted
alphabetically in ascending order and the user profile time zone is
the default time zone.
The workstation time zone contains the
time zone information of the machine on which robot is
running.
The workstation time zone appears in the time zone
list only when at least one schedule is defined with the workstation
time zone and the robot is connected to the same RPA Hub instance at least once.
The user
profile time zone is defined at the instance level, you can modify
it from your profile.
The schedule time zone is defined in the
Timezone field while creating a schedule
for a bot process.
The schedule time zone is mapped to the Windows time zone.
The schedule time zone
appears in the time zone list only when at least one active schedule
is defined with a specific time zone instead of a workstation time
zone.
If the robot is associated with bot processes that have
schedules to be triggered in different time zones, then all those
time zones are displayed in the time zone list.
Along with
these scheduled timezones, timezone of current user is also be added
to the list. This user profile time zone becomes the default time
zone.
If the robot is associated with a bot process whose
schedule has to be triggered based on workstation time zone, then
those workstation time zones are displayed in the time zone
list.
Day
View events in the calendar for a particular day. See the following
example for a snapshot of the Robot calendar view.Figure 1. Example: Snapshot of the Robot calendar view for a day
(October 20, 2022)
Week
View events in the calendar for a particular week. The week view starts from Sunday to Saturday. The default first day of the week is Sunday. See the following example for a snapshot of the Robot calendar
view.
This is the default view of the robot calendar.
Every event must be specific to the start date and end date of the schedule.
The cadence of the events must be based on weekdays that are mentioned in the schedule.
The events are generated based on the Start Date field on the schedule form. For more information, see Schedule form in RPA Hub.
Figure 2. Example: Snapshot of the Robot calendar view for a week (November 13 to 19, 2022)
Month
View events in the calendar for a particular month. See the following example for a snapshot of the Robot calendar view.Figure 3. Example: Snapshot of the Robot calendar view for a month (November 2022)
New Schedule
Create a schedule on the Robot Calendar tab by selecting the New Schedule button, to execute unattended robots.
You can also create a schedule by right-clicking or
double-clicking an empty slot of the robot calendar. For more information about creating a schedule, see Create a schedule on the robot calendar in RPA Hub.
Refresh
View new or updated schedules on the robot calendar by selecting the refresh icon ().
Show or hide agenda view
Show or hide events for the particular day, week, or month by selecting the agenda icon (). See the following example for a snapshot of the show or hide agenda filter view.Figure 4. Show or hide agenda view filter
Show Filter
View the filter options to display the schedules on the life-cycle stage status of the bot process and the bot process name.
You can view schedules and scheduled maintenance days of a published bot
processes.
Select the filter icon () to view the filter options.
In the Process Name list or the Life Cycle Stage Status list, perform any of the following actions:
To add items to the selection, double-click an available item on the left or select an item and select the add icon (>). Then, select Apply. The new item is
added at the bottom of the selected items column on the right.
To remove items from the selection, double-click the item on the right, or select the item and select the remove icon (<). Then, select Apply.
Event cards
View the event cards in the Scheduled events section.
Limited
information about the associated bot process and its schedule is
displayed.
Figure 5. Example: Snapshot of the event cards
Event details
To view more event details of the bot process and its schedule, double-click an event card.Figure 6. Example: Event details snapshot of the associated bot process whose interval type is DailyFigure 7. Example: Event details snapshot of the associated bot process whose interval type is HoursFigure 8. Event details snapshot of the associated bot process whose interval type is Weekly
Event pop-up windows
On the event pop-up window, select the following icons to view, edit, and delete a schedule:
Select the view bot process details icon () to get the bot process details in a new tab.
Select the view event details icon () to view more details about the schedule in the contextual side panel.
Select the edit schedule icon () to edit an existing schedule.
Select the delete schedule icon () to delete a schedule that you no longer need.
).
).
). See the following example for a snapshot of the show or hide agenda filter view.
) to view the filter options.In the Process Name list or the Life Cycle Stage Status list, perform any of the following actions:
) to get the bot process details in a new tab.
) to view more details about the schedule in the contextual side panel.
) to edit an existing schedule.
) to delete a schedule that you no longer need.