Resume Service

Resumes the operation of a Windows service according to the name.

Command availability: IBM RPA SaaS and IBM RPA on premises

Description

Resumes the operation of a Windows service according to the service name.

Note:Windows services 🡥 are applications that run in the background and they can be automatically started when Windows starts.

Script syntax

IBM RPA's proprietary script language has a syntax similar to other programming languages. The script syntax defines the command's syntax in the script file. You can work with this syntax in IBM RPA Studio's Script mode.

resumeService --name(String) (Boolean)=value

Input parameters

The following table displays the list of input parameters available in this command. In the table, you can see the parameter name when working in IBM RPA Studio's Script mode and its Designer mode equivalent label.

Designer mode label	Script mode name	Required	Accepted variable types	Description
Service Name	`name`	`Required`	`Text`	Name of the service to be resumed.

Output parameters

Designer mode label	Script mode name	Accepted variable types	Description
Result	value	`Boolean`	Returns `true` if the service is successfully resumed, otherwise returns `false`.

Example

The command resumes operation of the Windows service called "wuauserv" (Windows Update), which had been paused.

defVar --name resumeSuccess --type Boolean
pauseService --name wuauserv
resumeService --name wuauserv resumeSuccess=value
logMessage --message "Result: ${resumeSuccess}" --type "Info"

Note:The output value depends on the existence of the application installed on your Windows device.

Limitations

Use the service name instead of the service display name for commands that handle Windows service. Ex: Use IBMAUTService and not the display name which is IBM Auto Update Service.