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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Robotic Process Automation
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 13, 2022

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A less intrusive way to set script timeout

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When we want to define the time limit that a script can execute, we use the red time, either because we need another robot to run on the same machine at a specific time, or because we know that the processing will not exceed this time, and if it does, probably the robot got stuck somehow.

If the script happens to reach the red time in the middle of a process where there is a loop to run several items (from a table, queue, etc), probably one of those items will need to be reprocessed or manually processed later.

My idea is to create a time (the yellow time could be used) and a non-intrusive stop command, so that if the execution exceeds this time and the robot goes through this command it stops without breaking the process.

Idea priority Low
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Jan 3, 2023

    The script red timeout was designed to be an extreme mechanism to kill a bot execution instance that might be unstable or not responding. The shutdown of the process is done outside of the bot execution process, otherwise, it wouldn't be possible to kill non-responsive bots.

    Following the 23.0.0 release where the bot concept was introduced, we're looking to build features on top of the bot, and SLA similar to the Process orchestration are planned. This will improve the management of timeouts for bots based on SLAs.

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