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

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Micah is a Developer Evangelist at Automation Anywhere. He's an RPA guru with a love for building bots and making work more human.

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[jimfrost]

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!

[ashwinpillai]

Would love to see more videos regarding control room Api implementations

[pratikrahane]

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

[Bandude]

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

[sbanyas]

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

[WhoisNicko]

Thanks Micah! Quick question, do you know if it is possible to get execution or operational information from bots without needing the bot insight license?

[YRUreal]

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.)?

[PriyankaSingh-iqte]

Hi Micah,
Instead of postman on same device, I want to trigger a bot from a 3rd party application (CI /CD). Do I need to install 3rd party application certificate on AA server or they need to install AA certificate on their server?

[ashwinpillai]

Thank you for this video it was really helpful!

[anishdubey]

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

[TheCooGuR]

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??

[robinjain]

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?

[eduardobravodiaz]

Great, is working now with an enterprise version

[TheoXypteras]

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

[laurentp]

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?

[statesmphinyane]

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

[akashrawat]

Can we access the control room apis with the community edition. If yes then how can I get the "control room" url

[gtasapcuser]

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.

[melquimelencianomatos]

I need to be able to send a file to a bot from a web page, is this possible to do using the automation anywhere Deploy API?

[sravankumaraluvala]

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