Applications

Applications create a bridge between third-party applications and IBM RPA. These third-party applications can be storage providers like Dropbox™, Google Drive™, and Microsoft™ OneDrive, and email providers like Microsoft™ Exchange and Google Gmail™.

When you add an application, you define the data to access it and its protected resources. As a result, you can authorize the access to it through OAuth authentication and use it later in your scripts.

For example, you add a Microsoft™ OneDrive application, and grant access to it through connections. It stores protected resources like folders, photos, or files, which you can access without sharing username and password in your script. Instead, it authorizes the connections, which issue the application's credentials.

IBM RPA SaaS provides applications by default. To use an application on this offering, create a connection to it first. For more information, see Adding connections to an application.

Refer to the following topics to learn how to add an application:

Storage providers

• Adding a Dropbox application
  Learn how to add a Dropbox application to IBM RPA.

• Adding a Google Drive application
  Learn how to add a Google Drive application to IBM RPA.

• Adding a Microsoft OneDrive application
  Learn how to add a Microsoft™ OneDrive application to IBM RPA.

Email providers

• Adding a Microsoft™ Exchange IMAP application
  Learn how to add a Microsoft™ Exchange application to IBM RPA. This application uses IMAP to access data from the email service.

• Adding a Microsoft™ Exchange legacy application
  Learn how to add a Microsoft™ Exchange Web Services (EWS) application to IBM RPA.

• Adding a Google Gmail application
  Learn how to add a Google Gmail application to IBM RPA.

• Adding a Microsoft™ Outlook Email application
  Learn how to add a Microsoft™ Outlook email application to IBM RPA.