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- Displaying PDF files
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- Opening hyperlinks inside forms
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- Searching long strings in drop-down lists
- About the pre 23.4 Form experience
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- About the Persistence activity package
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- Resume After Delay
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- Complete Task
- Forward Task
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- Add Task Comment
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- Create App Task
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- Advanced Controls for Drop-downs
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- Setting a Default Tab
- Removing the Delete button from Edit Grid using custom CSS
- Customizing Edit Grid templates
- Using buttons to trigger custom logic
- Using an External Form Layout
- Dynamically expanding form components at runtime
- Aligning the content of a form component from left to right using JSON attributes
- Sample Workflows
- Automation Ops Pipelines
- System
- Release notes
- About the System activity package
- Project compatibility
- Supported character encoding
- RegEx Builder Wizard
- Add Data Column
- Add Data Row
- Add Log Fields
- Add or Subtract from Date
- Add Transaction Item
- Add Queue Item
- Append Item to Collection
- Append Item to List
- Append Line
- Beep
- Break / Exit Loop
- Browse for File
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- Build Collection
- Build Data Table
- Bulk Add Queue Items
- Change Case for Text
- Change Type
- Check False
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- Clear Data Table
- Collection to Data Table
- Comment
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- Combine text
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- Create File
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- Delete File
- Delete Folder
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- Delete Queue Items
- Disable Local Trigger
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- Download file from URL
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- Enable Local Trigger
- Evaluate Business Rule
- Exists in Collection
- Extract/Unzip Files
- Extract Date and Time from Text
- Extract Text
- File Change Trigger
- File Exists
- Filter Collection
- Filter Data Table
- Folder Exists
- For Each
- For Each File in Folder
- File Change Trigger V3
- Find and Replace
- Find Matching Patterns
- For Each Folder in Folder
- For Each Row in Data Table
- Format Date as Text
- Format Value
- Generate Data Table From Text
- Get Asset
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- Get Current Job Info
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- Modify Date
- Modify Text
- Move File
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- Multiple Assign
- New Item Added to Queue
- Notify Global Variable Changed
- Orchestrator HTTP Request
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- Path Exists
- Postpone Transaction Item
- Process End Trigger
- Process Start Trigger
- Raise Alert
- Read List Item
- Read Text File
- Read Storage Text
- Remove Data Column
- Remove Data Row
- Remove Duplicate Rows
- Remove From Collection
- Remove Log Fields
- Replace Matching Patterns
- Repeat Number of Times
- Repeat Trigger
- Rename File
- Rename Folder
- Report Status
- Reset Timer
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- Retry Scope
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- Should Stop
- Split Text
- Sort Data Table
- Start Timer
- Start Job
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- Stop Local Triggers
- Stop Timer
- Text to Left/Right
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- Time Trigger
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- Update Row Item
- Update List Item
- Upload Storage File
- Wait for Download
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- Workflow Placeholder
- Write Storage Text
- Write Text File
- AddDataRow
- AddQueueItem
- AddTransactionItem
- AppendLine
- BulkAddQueueItems
- ClearDataTable
- CompressZipFiles
- CopyFile
- CreateFile
- CreateFolder
- DeleteFileOrFolder
- DeleteQueueItems
- DeleteStorageFile
- DownloadStorageFile
- ExtractUnzipFiles
- FilterDataTable
- GetAsset
- GetCredential
- GetJobs
- GetQueueItem
- GetQueueItems
- GetResourceForLocalPath
- GetRowItem
- GetTransactionItem
- InvokeProcess
- JoinDataTables
- ListStorageFiles
- LookUpDataTable
- MergeDataTable
- MoveFile
- OrchestratorHTTPRequest
- OutputDataTable
- PathExists
- PostponeTransactionItem
- ReadStorageText
- ReadTextFile
- RemoveDataColumn
- RemoveDuplicateRows
- Replace
- SetAsset
- SetCredential
- SetTransactionProgress
- SetTransactionStatus
- SortDataTable
- StartJob
- StopJob
- UpdateRowItem
- UploadStorageFile
- WaitQueueItem
- WriteStorageText
- WriteTextFile
- Testing
- Release notes
- About the Testing activity package
- Project compatibility
- Project Settings
- Add Test Data Queue Item
- Address
- Attach Document
- Bulk Add Test Data Queue Items
- Create Comparison Rule
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- Get Test Data Queue Item
- Get Test Data Queue Items
- Given Name
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- Random Date
- Random Number
- Random String
- Random Value
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- Address
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- RandomString
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Start Job And Get Reference
Workflow Activities
Last updated Nov 26, 2024
Start Job And Get Reference
UiPath.Persistence.Activities.Job.StartJobAndGetReference
Invokes a Job in Orchestrator with arguments and fetches the corresponding job object in order to wait for job completion at any time during the execution of the workflow. If your workflow uses this activity to invoke another workflow, the Robot has to be connected to Orchestrator, and the Robot role needs to also have View on Processes and Environments, and View, Edit, Create on Jobs. The activity runs under the Robot that executes it.
Designer panel
- ProcessName (mandatory) - The Display name of the Process you want to use for the job as it appears in Orchestrator (it could be found
in Additional Settings field of the process settings. For example, if the name of the Package is InvoiceScan and you named the process Invoice Scanner, the string in this field should be
Invoice Scanner
). This field supports strings andString
variables only. - Job Arguments - The arguments you want to use when invoking a job in Orchestrator. Modifying
Out
andIn/Out
arguments maps them back to the workflow after task completion. This field supportsDictionary<String,Argument>
objects only. - Job Object (Output) - The job object that is returned from Orchestrator as a
JobData
object after the task is created. This object can be passed to the Wait for Job and Resume activity in order to suspend the execution of the workflow until the job is completed.
Properties panel
Common
- ContinueOnError - Specifies if the automation should continue even when the activity throws an error. This field only supports Boolean values (True, False). The default value is False. As a result, if the field is blank and an error is thrown, the execution of the project stops. If the value is set to True, the execution of the project continues regardless of any error.
Note: If this activity is included in Try Catch and the value of the ContinueOnError property is True, no error is caught when the project is executed.
- DisplayName - The display name of the activity.
- TimeoutMS - Specifies the amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait for the activity to run before an error is thrown. The default value is 30000 milliseconds (30 seconds).
Input
- Orchestrator Folder Path - The path to an Orchestrator Folder
different to the one the current process operates in, where you want to start
the job. To read more on Orchestrator Folders, visit Folders. For Classic folders,
this property can only be used with Floating Robots and only if the
current user has the correct task privileges in the target folder. For
Modern folders, folder path overriding is not supported. This
field supports only strings and
String
variables.
Note: The Orchestrator Folder Path
property must be used only if the job must be started or queried from a
folder different than the current one. If the user performing this action does not
have the required permissions for the target folder, job start fails and throws a
critical error. Visit Folder Permissions to read about folder
permissions.
- Job Arguments - The arguments you want to use when invoking a job in Orchestrator. Modifying
Out
andIn/Out
arguments maps them back to the workflow after task completion. This field supportsDictionary<String,Argument>
objects only. - ProcessName (mandatory) - The Display name of the Process you want to use for the job as it appears in Orchestrator (it could be found
in Additional Settings field of the process settings. For example, if the name of the Package is InvoiceScan and you named the process Invoice Scanner, the string in this field should be
Invoice Scanner
). This field supports strings andString
variables only.
Misc
- Private - If selected, the values of variables and arguments are no longer logged at Verbose level.
Output
- Job Object (Output) - The job object that is returned from Orchestrator as a
JobData
object after the task is created. This object can be passed to the Wait for Job and Resume activity in order to suspend the execution of the workflow until the job is completed.
- ProcessName (mandatory) - The Display name of the Process you want to use for the job as it appears in Orchestrator (it could be found
in Additional Settings field of the process settings. For example, if the name of the Package is InvoiceScan and you named the process Invoice Scanner, the string in this field should be
Invoice Scanner
). This field supports strings andString
variables only. - Job Arguments - The arguments you want to use when invoking a job in Orchestrator. Modifying
Out
andIn/Out
arguments maps them back to the workflow after task completion. This field supportsDictionary<String,Argument>
objects only. - Job Object (Output) - The job object that is returned from Orchestrator as a
JobData
object after the task is created. This object can be passed to the Wait for Job and Resume activity in order to suspend the execution of the workflow until the job is completed.
Advanced options
Common
- ContinueOnError - Specifies if the automation should continue even when the activity throws an error. This field only supports Boolean values (True, False). The default value is False. As a result, if the field is blank and an error is thrown, the execution of the project stops. If the value is set to True, the execution of the project continues regardless of any error.
Note: If this activity is included in Try Catch and the value of the ContinueOnError property is True, no error is caught when the project is executed.
- DisplayName - The display name of the activity.
- TimeoutMS - Specifies the amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait for the activity to run before an error is thrown. The default value is 30000 milliseconds (30 seconds).
Input
- Orchestrator Folder Path - The path to an Orchestrator Folder
different to the one the current process operates in, where you want to start
the job. To read more on Orchestrator Folders, visit Folders. For Classic folders,
this property can only be used with Floating Robots and only if the
current user has the correct task privileges in the target folder. For
Modern folders, folder path overriding is not supported. This
field supports only strings and
String
variables.
Note: The Orchestrator Folder Path
property must be used only if the job must be started or queried from a
folder different than the current one. If the user performing this action does not
have the required permissions for the target folder, job start fails and throws a
critical error. Visit Folder Permissions to read about folder
permissions.