Building a Pega Robot Manager application
By creating a new Pega Robot Manager application by using the New Application Wizard, you can configure the necessary components for both attended and unattended robotic process automation applications.
Some examples of these components are: robotic work groups, assignment types, decision tables for robot registration, and access roles for users and robot operators.
- Log in to Pega Platform as the RMSysAdmin user, or as any user whose current application stack has Robot Manager as a built-on.
- In the header of Dev Studio, click .
- In the New Application screen, select the Robot Manager template.
- Confirm your selection by clicking Use this application type.
- In the Robot Manager settings screen,
enable or disable the following application settings:
- Auto-balancing
- Enabled by default. Robot Manager automatically
responds to shifts in workloads across your
solution by continuously monitoring work groups
and work queues to determine the work that has
priority, based on the service-level agreement
(SLA) of any open assignments. As a result, the
Auto-balancing engine dynamically dispatches
robots across work groups to ensure that all open
assignments are processed within the SLA deadline,
reallocating robots as workloads change.
For more information, see Auto-balancing robot workload across work groups.
- Auto-archiving of reporting data
- Enabled by default. Auto-archiving of Robot Manager operational
metrics prevents your system from accumulating
old, or obsolete, data. If you enable this option,
the collected data is periodically cleaned up,
based on your configuration.
For more information, see Auto-archiving robot operational data.
- Auto-purging of reporting data
- Enabled by default. Auto-purging of Pega Robot Runtime data permanently removes old, or obsolete, data at specific intervals.
For more information, see Auto-purging robot operational data.
- Configure robotic work groups:
- Click Add work group.
- Enter the work group name and at least one
assignment type.Assignment types represent work queues that contain robotic work assignments that are waiting for an available robot to process them.
- Optional: To disable automatic workload balancing for
this work group, clear the
Auto-balancing check
box.Automatic workload balancing increases efficiency and minimizes robot idle time by moving robots between work groups to complete pending assignments on time. For more information, see Auto-balancing robot workload across work groups.
- Click Submit.
- Optional: To add more robotic work groups, repeat steps 6.a through 6.d.
See the following figure for reference:Creating robotic work groups and assignment types through the New Application Wizard 
- Optional: If you created multiple work groups, you can change the default
work group to which robots register by performing the
following steps:
- In the work group tile, click the Edit icon.
- Select the Default work group checkbox.
- Confirm your settings by clicking Submit.
For more information about robot registration, see Robot registration and work group assignment for RPA (unattended) robots. - Click Continue.
- Enter the name of your new application and click Create application.
- Optional: To add users to your application, perform the following
actions:
- Place the mouse cursor in the Select a user or add user by email address... box.
- Select an available user from the list or enter a valid user email.
- Select a user role.
- If you entered a user email, click Send invitation.
- Click Go to app.
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