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Last updated Mar 3, 2026

Attended vs. unattended

The first decision to be made when planning your automations is whether the solution is to be executed in an attended or unattended context. While both types are intended to automate tasks a user would otherwise perform manually on their computer, the specific use cases are different between them.

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