How to Trigger a Bot from the Control Room API | #AAIllustrates with Micah Smith Episode 15

Hi guys. I've tried to consume the API, but I get next error message : "UM9999 - An unexpected problem occurred.". I've tried using domain\username, domain\emailaccount and many more and continue the error. Should I set any configuration in Control Room before consume it ? I hope your help. Thanks

Hey is there any Rest endpoint which can be used to get a bots detail. Is it possible to get what input variables and there types that needs to be passed while invoking the bots.

I set up a validated URL on my CR settings for the callback and I'm passing the callbackinfo url to the bot but I'm getting nothing back. Where can I check what is going on?

Great video! Any suggestions on videos of how to incorporate this (calling APIs by using token) into a web page?

Hi @Micah.. I followed all steps that you showed. But I am getting error as access denied when I am triggering the bot from api though from my bot creator account I am able to run the bot in control room but getting error from api. Please help me

Just like passing inputs from API, should have added video for reading bot output from output variables

for some reason, ur videos is not clear somehow. only ur face is very much clear. but behind screen actual workplace area is not.

Most descriptive session. You have any video on access auth api, normal api from taskbot

It's great that we can use the Control Room API to trigger a bot to run an automation, however; this entails having to authenticate and know what user ID, and bot runner ID.. Is there a way to define an OpenAPI/Swagger interface and have an automation be that API??

Hey i want to run a bot in a specific time how can I do that one

Hi, do you have a example of how pass varables but in automation anywhere 11.3?

Thanks for another great guide Micah! Any links to how to send a table variable?

Hi! I´m exploring Automation Anywhere with the free trial. The process that i´m developing needs a Request Trigger, or at least that would be the best for it. But I guess that i can´t make it with the licenses of the free trial. I am right? Do I necessarily have to pay the bot runner license to carry out some tests?

Is it possible to pass the bot output results in the API response? e.g you have a bot that performs some calculations and you essentially want to pass back the calculated output variable values in the response back. I'm on Automation 360

If I have 3 bot runner and I want the queue to run in whatever bot runner available. How can we do it?

Thanks @micah! Very informative video, Could you please confirm if same postman collection can be used for v11 APIs. or we have different api collections for the v11. If yes, What is the link to import that into Postman?

Can we get a video on repository Management API?

Thank you so much @Micah!

Hello
I used to use AAEv11 and then migrated to A360.
In v11, attended bots can also be scheduled on the client, so I've been using that.
Right now, it seems impossible to schedule attended bots on the A360
Is there a way to schedule attended bots on the A360?

We are migrating from A11, very helpful thanks for the help.

Very fruitful video thank Micah. My question is - Is there any API which can be used to stop ongoing bot execution?

HI Micah..I am using trial version of AutomationAnywhere Enterprise and I could able to make all the calls except deploy. Could you please let me know is this the limitation in trail version or do I need to modify some thing in user role to get this work done. I am getting below error
"message": "PERMISSION_DENIED: Users provided do not have a valid license"

please help @Micah! . i have passed in the runAsUserIds but I keep getting "{"code":"scheduler.validation.runAsUsers.empty","details":null,"message":"RunAs users is empty"}"

Hi. If the bot is running and another API call is made, then will it go in a queue and start execution after the current task completes?

Great, is working now with an enterprise version

Awesome!

Hi! I get the following error when deploy bot - "message": "PERMISSION_DENIED: Users provided do not have a valid license"

Hi Micah, do you know if there is a way to queue jobs or some other better technique with API (v1 & v2 swagger only), if the ID is being used to currently run other jobs ? The ID's Token appears to be alive only for a given instance, trying to see if a single ID could be used to run a multiple of jobs simultaneously, without disrupting any other jobs authentication...

Thanks Micah for the episodes 13 & 15, those API references really helped us finally get our AAE v11 API bot task to execute remotely using Postman! Now for next steps...would be awesome of there was some examples of how to extend this by exporting out in postman using the various coding type examples, python, shell, etc, etc. I'm not exactly sure how it should be broken up per POST call or kept together, more research on that is needed. We're trying to determine what possible end points we can or should use that are best for the enterprise against all other used systems, just like you mention users should be exploring. How are others properly storing and refreshing the token and or pw to be kept secure (I assume the generated token has a short life span? If pw's should be kept in CR locker, we'll continue to do that.)?

Thanks @Micah! As a Solution Architect (not a developer) I find your teaching style to be extremely good. You present technical complexity in a very straight-forward manner. Looking forward to your videos in the future!

Hi! I get the following error "{ "message": "PERMISSION_DENIED: Users provided do not have a valid license"}" when I tried use the call '/v3/automations/deploy' my license is for Automation AnyWhere Enterprise but is trial, is there any limitation on this kind of license ? Thanks!

Thank you for the video, you saved a lot of time for me.

thanks for the video Micah, How do we leverage this to other applications as you discussed, do you mean do we have to copy body code? can you show us with one example? thanks in advance..

Thank you for the video very usefull, can you share postman collections?

Thank you for this Video, would it be possible to have the Postman folder for AA V11.x please? - Thanks

I'm getting this error when authenticating through usename/password(I do attach username , password, controlroomurl in environment variables) {"code":"json.deserialization.exception","details":null,"message":"Invalid request parameters"}

Hi Micah! Thanks for the nice video! My question is about how to get botOutVariables after execution of the bot? I have A2019 Enter. 4705 build, and I can't get values of output variables after execution, botOutVariables is not in the response. In the A2019 docs "Request bot deployment status", there is such functionality but it is not for my case. Which version of A2019 Enter: supports botOutVariables?
A little suggestion for some other videos, may you also cover more advanced use cases for CR API? It will be much appreciated as this topic is not well covered yet.

Thank you for the video.
I have a question. in the bot deployment stage I'm getting the following message: "message": "PERMISSION_DENIED: User gbds does not have permission to run as user (s):
. [botrunner1]
I would like to know where I get this permission. and what that permission would be. Thanks again for the video

Indeed a great explanation on the use of A2019 BOT deployment API call. Just wondering how we can send a input file instead of input parameters using same API call.

Thank you for the video. Four points if you could please address (1) What if my Bot is return an output value, how do I get the output value, I know it was available in 11.3.4 however could not find in A2019 (2) What is the significance of call back URL and how to use it, perhaps a simple example to illustrate it would be helpful (3) Suggestion: We do lot of API calls to bots, it would be very helpful if instead of ID (Bot ID) and User ID , the names could be used, .i.e. username (Bot runner) and Bot (File Name). This way we can reduce two additional steps in the entire process of triggering a bot by API (4) In my view the automation ID is generated as soon as the bot it triggered, however it may take longer for bot to actually run and finish, how does the calling know if bot was run successfully etc, also when integrating this with other process it actually is always a async call. Thanks for time