Manage your work items in RPA Hub

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Manage your work items more efficiently in RPA Hub. You can view your work items, mark them as complete, and reassign a work item.

Before you begin

Create a queue. For more information, see Create a queue in RPA Hub.

Role required: sn_rpa_fdn.rpa_developer, sn_rpa_fdn.rpa_business_user, sn_rpa_fdn.rpa_support_user, or sn_rpa_fdn.rpa_admin

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > Robotic Process Automation > RPA Hub Workspace.

  2. Select the list icon ([Omitted image "rpahublist-icon.png"] Alt text: List icon.).

  3. On the Lists tab, under Build, select Queues.

  4. Open the queue to view your work items.

  5. To mark a work item as complete or reassign a work item, select the appropriate action on the Work Items tab.

Option

Action

To mark a work item as complete

  1. From the list, select one or more work items.
  2. In the form header, select Mark as Complete.
  3. Enter a comment for marking the work item as complete.
  4. Select Mark as Complete. The status of the work item changes to Success.

To reassign a work item

  1. From the list, select one or more work items.
  2. In the form header, select Reassign.
  3. Enter a comment for reassigning the work item.
  4. Select Reassign. The status of the work item changes to Pending.You can reassign a work item that is in In Progress, Pending, Failed, or Success state. Upon reassigning, the values of the following fields on the Work Item form are reset to:
  • Started On- <empty>
  • Completed On- <empty>
  • Robot- <empty>
  • Last Started Time- <empty>
  • Attempts Count- 0
  • Exception Type- <empty>
  • Status- Pending
  • Remarks- <from the modal> Roles required to reassign a failed or a success work item: RPA developer, RPA release manager, and RPA admin.
6. On the **Work Items** tab, open a work item to view the details on the form.
  1. In the Activity and Compose fields, view the activity of the form, work notes, and additional comments.

Parent Topic:Work items in RPA Hub

Related topics

Queue implementation in RPA Hub

View Audit History

Work item form in RPA Hub

Use the Work item form to view more details of the executed work items.

Field

Description

Name

Name of the work item.

Work Queue

Name of the queue.

Status

Status of the work item.

Exception Type

Type of the exception:- Application - For example, if an issue persists with an associated application such as SAP.

  • Business - For example, if an issue requires a manual intervention to fix it.

The auto retry functionality retries the work items based on the exception type.

If the Exception Type field is Application, then the work item is auto retried.

Roles required to edit this field: RPA robot.

Started On

Start date and time of the work item.

Completed On

Completion date and time of the work item.

Attempts Count

Number of times the work item is picked for auto retry.The minimum value is 0.

Details

Priority

Priority of the work item:- Critical

  • High
  • Medium
  • Low

The assigned robot executes the bot process as per the defined priority in the work queue.

Type

String field to define the type of work item.

Stage

Custom field for the robot to maintain different stages of the transaction.

SLA

Time and date that the SLA was started.

Robot

Name of the robot that is assigned to the work queue.

Created

Creation date and time of the work item.

Last Started Time

Last start time of the work item.

Deferred Till

Work item that is not picked until the specified date and time.

Completed By

Name of the robot who has completed the work item.

Remarks

Remarks updated by the robot runtimes.

Content

Request Content

Non sensitive content which is displayed in plain text in the Work Item form and can be used for work item processing.

Sensitive Request Content

Sensitive request content which is encrypted and masked in the Work Item form and can be used for work item processing.When the work item is picked, the sensitive data is decrypted and passed to the RPA Desktop Design Studio or robots.

With this option, you can pass sensitive information through queues. For example, credit card details are encrypted.

Response Content

Content that is added or updated when a work item is picked after the transaction.

Transaction Activity

Work notes

Work notes for the work item.

Additional Comments

Comments for updating this work item.

Activity

Transaction logs for the selected work item.

**Related topics**

Queue form in RPA Hub

Using auto-retry functionality for your failed work items in RPA Hub

Queue implementation in RPA Hub

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