Lookup Password

This action retrieves a password from the Password store in Management Console and stores it in a variable. This step is designed to use sensitive information without disclosing it. You can store the retrieved password in a password type variable and use it in a Robot.

Before you can retrieve password information, the Management Console administrator must create a Password access entry in the Management Console with resource access token for the certain robot.

Every time you upload your robot or any of its components, such as types, snippets, and so on to the Management Console, a new Password access entry must be created for the robot. Previous entries are kept in the Password Access list and the administrator can delete them manually.

Properties

The Lookup Password action can be configured using the following properties:

User Name: Specifies the name of the user to get a password for.
Target System: Specifies the external system to get a password for. The value you type in this filed must match the value in the Target System property of the Password entry.

The target systems can be configured by an administrator to provide passwords for the same user on different systems, such as production, pre-production, and development. The Target System can also be used to partition the access to different parts of virtual machines if customers have a credit checking automation in one partition and an accounting summarization in another partition.

Project Name

Specifies the name of the project to get a password for. This enables you to work seamlessly with the projects that use the same credentials, such as the user name and the target system.

Note the following when running robots of earlier versions on a RoboServer.

In case of a single project: If you leave the Project Name field blank and the entry fits the search criteria, the Lookup Password action retrieves a password from the Management Console.
In case of multiple projects: If you leave the Project Name field blank and the entry fits the search criteria, the Management Console returns an error.

Variable: Name of the Password type variable to store the retrieved password.