Manually playing back robot tasks (deprecated)

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When you create a robot task, you can manually play it back and then complete, postpone, or fail it.

Before you begin

You must have a robot task to play back. Information about creating robot tasks is found in the topic Working with robot tasks (deprecated).

Procedure

  1. In Process Designer, open your process in the Definition view.
  2. Click Run to run an instance of the process.
  3. In the Process Instances view in the right pane, expand the Tasks section.
  4. Step through each task in the process until the robot task is displayed in the Tasks section.
  5. Beside the robot task in the Tasks section, click the Start icon to start the task. The robot task generates a coach in a separate browser window.
  6. In the Output field of the coach, specify a text string and then select one of the following options:
    • If you want to complete the robot task, click Done and then close the browser window. In the Process Instances view, click the Refresh icon. The robot task is now closed and the process has completed.
    • If you want to postpone the robot task, click Postpone and then close the browser window. In the Process Instances view, the robot task is waiting to be started again. (If you restart the task, any text that you specified earlier in the Output field is retained.)
    • If you want to fail the robot task, type a description for the error in the Error Description field and then click Fail. When the browser window displays the error information, close the browser window. In the Process Instances view, click the Refresh icon. The robot task is now closed and either the process flow continues from the intermediate error event that is configured to catch the error or the process fails.

What to do next

After you have finished your manual testing, generate a bot definition for the robot task by following the instructions in the topic "Generating and downloading bot definitions".