Enumerate the activities of a traditional job in a digital worker.
About this task
You define activities, set the automation status of activities, and assign tasks to
activities.
Procedure
-
Create a digital worker:
- From the My digital workforce list, select
Create.
The Create a digital worker job
pane opens.
- Enter a name in Job title.
A job title covers all of
the activities of the digital worker.
- Optional: Enter a description.
A description is recommended. An
ideal description clearly and fully defines the intended purpose of the digital worker. Ask
yourself: If at some point another subject matter expert manages this digital worker, can they
understand what job is being done?
- Required: Enter a list of job activities.
The list of job
activities is a list of steps in your job.
Home underwriting, for example, might have
the following steps:
- Assess risk
- Calculate debt to income ratio
- Ensure that all legal conditions are met
- Set the automation level.
The automation level is an objective and can be
one of the following types:
- Automated (or To be automated): all activities can
be automated
- Augmented (or To be augmented): some activities can
be automated
- Not specified: activities might be manual or automated
The automation level can be updated later as the digital worker job
evolves.
- Click Create.
The activities that you create
are now visible in the job dashboard.
- Review the job activities in the job dashboard:
- Reread the list of activities.
- Optional: To edit or remove activities, select the overflow menu:

- Optional: To add activities, select Add activity.
- Assign digital worker tasks to your activities:
For each activity that you
want to automate, you can create a task.
- For a job activity that you want to augment or automate, select
Create.
- Enter a unique task name.
A distinctive name is essential for automation
developers to identify this task later.
- Define the purpose of the task.
A purpose is a description that clearly
defines the intended actions that the task must accomplish. Since automation developers develop the
task based on this description, they need to know what they are automating.
- Optional: Open the task builder.
Your digital worker appears under My
workforce.
What to do next
Continue building your digital worker task by following the steps under Creating digital worker tasks.