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About Pega Robotic Automation Importer component

Updated on December 20, 2022

Use the Pega Robotic Automation Importer component to automatically generate a versioned inventory of Robot Connector rules for use in your application.

This functionality makes it easier to add robotic automations to your applications to boost productivity and simplify configuration because you do not have to manually enter the names of automations.

After an automation package is deployed from Pega Robot Studio, Pega Robotic Automation Importer automatically performs the following tasks:

  • Generates all related data and rule artifacts, and then describes the package and automations that the package contains.

    Note: The generated data records include automation package, version, and configuration information, but these data records do not include deployment levels.

  • Bundles all data and rule artifacts into a Pega Platform component
  • Attaches the newly-created Pega Platform component to your development stack
  • Builds and forwards the archive to the Pega Robot Manager, if necessary. First, the component is migrated from the Pega development server to a repository, and then Pega Robot Manager pulls the component from the repository.

As a result of this process, the automation package is automatically relayed to your automation repository and to Pega Robot Manager.

Note: In addition to storing each package version as a separate file, the automation repository also creates a cumulative archive that contains the current version, as well as all past versions of the automation package. Only the latest package version is relayed to Pega Robot Manager.

Before you begin

  • Ensure that you are using Pega Robot Manager 8.5.1 or later.
  • Unlock your application rule to attach the Pega Robotic Automation Importer component to the development stack.
  • Ensure that you have the pxPostPackageMetadata privilege that is required for package publishing. This privilege is included in the PegaRoboticAutomationImporter:PackagePublisher role that is provided by default with the Pega Robotic Automation Importer component.

Example

Each unique automation package results in a corresponding unique component. Each generated package component contains a single ruleset version (01-01-01), which includes automations across all versions of the package.

For example, consider the following scenario:

  • The Customer service automation package contains two public automations.
  • The Customer service automation package (version 1.0) is published to the Pega Platform development environment.
  • The Pega Robotic Automation Importer component reads the package metadata, and then generates the following instances:
    • Pega component CustomerService_<Unique Time Stamp>
    • Ruleset CustomerService_<Unique Time Stamp>:01-01-01
  • The new ruleset contains two Connect Robot rules with the following keys:
    • Package name
    • Package version
    • Automation ID
  • From Pega Robot Studio, a third public automation is added to the Customer service package.
  • The Customer service automation package (version 2.0) is published to the Pega Platform development environment.
  • The Pega Robotic Automation Importer component reads the package metadata:
    • The existing ruleset CustomerService_<Unique Time Stamp> is re-opened.
    • The package contains the three public automations from version 2.0.
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