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WHAT IS UIPATH APPS: LEARN FROM THESE 3 REAL LIFE USE CASES
5.2.2024 | 2 minute read
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JUAN PABLO MENA
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UiPath Apps is a low-code development platform – designed to help build custom automation-powered interfaces or apps, which can be connected in turn to automated processes that are easily accessed for example from a web browser.
The tool’s principal value is to add an interface for the users to interact with the robots. This interface can be as simple as a way to start a process on-demand, to having sophisticated panels where the users can analyze the robot outputs.
What are the main features of UiPath Apps?
- UiPath Apps is aimed at helping users interact with the robots in a more sophisticated way, allowing the user to run the robot with custom parameters.
- Apps provide different visualization panels, from text boxes and radio buttons to image visualization.
- These panels can be configured to serve as inputs, where the user can set the process parameters, or outputs, in order to show the robot results in a more informative way.
- Users can trigger their processes on-demand or schedule them for different hours during the day, week or month, while at the same time visualize the most important data generated by the robot’s last execution.
- UiPath apps can be visualized either on a PC or on a mobile phone, with the interface automatically adapting to each scenario.
Who can build Apps?
UiPath Apps comes included with Automation Cloud (and Automation Suite in case of an on-premises deployment). For the app development, a UiPath Automation Developer license is needed. UiPath’s App Studio is an intuitive low-code tool that does not require prior programming experiences so in theory anyone with the Developer license can develop with the tool.
Who can use Apps and how can they be accessed?
Any user registered in the organization that is using UiPath can use Apps. To utilize all the features related to robot execution (scheduling, trigger on-demand), the App user must be registered in Orchestrator with the right permissions. The robot itself requires the traditional unattended license to run on a specific VM.
To the end user, UiPath Apps is accessible on two different ways:
- Via Automation Portal: user will log into the portal (either from Cloud or Automation Suite) and click on the Apps icon, where all the Apps shared with that user will be shown. Also, if the user has an Automation Developer license, the user will be able to create their own apps.
- Via public URL: The Apps can also be accessed via public URLs. For this scenario, UiPath provides a feature to make the app public via a URL, which can be shared amongst the people that the team wants to use their App. However, all the actions related to a robot utilization would still require the user using the app to be authenticated in the orchestrator from the App’s organization, while also having the permissions to execute the robot that the App is connected to.
Real life Case Examples: Sisua’s UiPath Apps provide an efficient tool for data gathering and customized on-demand triggering of automated processes
At Sisua we have already started implementing UiPath Apps with our customers. The apps allow our customers to engage in more customized and efficient experiences with the robots they currently use. For example, we have developed Apps that:
- Help the user to lookup data stored in private APIs and databases. As an example, this means that customers will be able to search for an Order ID and gather all the data from this order in seconds. This data can be edited by authorized users and used to execute robots that upload the order info to an ERP.
- Manage multiple users using the App and requesting data at the same time. The design developed allows for different users to be able to retrieve data without having to wait an excessive amount of time to access the same data source.
- Triggering process robots on-demand, with specific inputs customized by each user. These processes are then executed by the traditional robots on an on-demand fashion, with the specific parameters defined directly by the user.
Other examples of use cases for UiPath Apps
- Perform a list of tasks related to every day’s work:
- Each of these tasks can be executed by specific robots:
- Guidance on being admitted to different work platform channels (Teams, Slack, etc).
- Set up and schedule 1:1 meetings.
- Shipping info for mail order.
- Set up email inbox.
- Each of these tasks can be executed by specific robots:
- Execute on-demand robots based on custom parameters:
- Register invoice with specific ID in ERP.
- Schedule multiple executions.
- Visualize data from robot’s last execution:
- Output data can be shown in different panels according to the customer needs.
- User can re-execute robot with different parameters if needed.
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