Configure Basic Engine Robots

Default Options

Configure the default options for the steps of the robot. See Default Options in Basic Engine Robot Configuration for more information.

Robot Comment

Enter a comment about a robot.

Robot Thumbnail

Add an image for a robot.

Click Load and go to the folder where the required file is located. The preferred image type is PNG. When you upload an image, it is automatically scaled to 20x20 pixels. Open the file, click OK, and save the robot.

If you try to upload a file of different type, an error message appears.

To delete an image, open the Robot Configuration window and double-click the asterisk near the robot thumbnail. The robot thumbnail is now set as the default, and the preview window contains "No image" text. Click OK and save the robot.

Robot Tags

Create one or more tags for a robot. The tags are displayed in the Tags column on the Repository > Robots page in Management Console. You can use the tags to filter the list of robots in the Management Console. Tags can contain letters, numbers, and underscore. You can use 255 characters in tags. If you type more than that number, only the first 255 of them are saved. If you enter two identical tags, a red warning icon appears.

Human Processing Time

This option helps you specify the time in minutes required for a person to perform the same task that the selected robot performs during its run. The difference between the specified value and the actual robot run time is displayed in the "Manual processing time saved" table of the Overview report in Kofax Analytics for RPA.

Default Waiting

Specifies the default wait criteria for the robot. For information about wait criteria and its options, see Use Wait Criteria.

Enable Private HTTP Cache

Select this option to enable private HTTP caching. Pages received from a server marked with Cache-Control: private contain information specific to a particular client and are not stored in the global HTTP cache. To never cache such pages you should disable this option. To store such pages in a robot specific cache you should enable this option. The downside to enabling private HTTP caching is using more memory per robot. If you are running a large amount of robots on the same server, you can disable this option to decrease their memory footprint.

Private HTTP Cache Size

This property specifies the maximum amount of memory to use for the private HTTP cache. The size is specified in kilobytes. You should beware of setting this number high because each and every robot instance running could potentially use this amount of memory in addition to its other state. All pages stored in the HTTP cache are compressed, so simple pages with text content will require very little memory. Also note, that only pages with Cache-Control: private or similar will ever be stored in the private HTTP cache. Pages marked for non-private caching will go into the global HTTP cache shared by all robots.

Use Proxy Server

This option has no effect on the Robot proxy settings. To specify proxy settings for a Robot, see Configure proxy. To specify global proxy settings, see Proxy Servers.

Specify an optional proxy server to use for all page and data loading done by this particular robot. You should use this property only rarely. We recommend to specify one or more proxy servers for the entire Kofax RPA installation. This can be done in the Design Studio Settings window. See Proxy Servers for more information. The proxy server specified for a particular robot will override proxy servers specified in the Design Studio settings.

Select the Design Mode Execution for your robot that use the Default (WebKit) browser engine. Available options are:

• Minimal Execution (Direct)

• Smart Re-execution (Full)

The Avoid External Re-execution option, which is available for Smart Re-execution, ensures that steps are never re-executed, even when the cached result of the previous execution cannot be used. This option should only be used when there are requirements from the interaction with the external world to avoid re-execution, for example if this would result in incorrect or duplicate data in a partner's system.

Shows the version of the saved robot and the version of the Design Studio the robot was last edited in.