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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 16, 2021

Enhance general product ecosystem - extensibility

An AA metabots-like approach would provide more flexibility and extensibility to the product.

Idea priority Medium
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Nov 26, 2021

    Extensibility is planned for future releases, and will start adding support for creating commands using WAL, then later C# using a provided SDK.

  • Guest
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    Sep 7, 2023

    Do you have any updates on product extensibility? This would enhance the product's flexibility and address any feature gaps required by clients.

  • Guest
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    May 17, 2023

    Hi Team .. this ticket is opened for almost 2 years .. any outlook when it can be delivered?

  • Guest
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    Oct 20, 2022

    Ola temos alguma atualização sobre a Idea?

  • Guest
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    May 29, 2022

    Hello, do you have any update regarding this idea?

1 MERGED

Tab Delimiter

Merged
Allow for usage of Tab Delimiter and space delimiter when using the text reader.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration
4 MERGED

Execute .DLL functions in IBM RPA

Merged
This was a key component in Automation Anywhere that was used within their MetaBots. It would allow bots to be able to execute .DLL functions. Without it, clients are having trouble migrating over.
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration
24 MERGED

Custom reusable commands coded in .Net

Merged
Please allow for creating custom commands coded in .NET (using .NET libraries). These custom commands should be available for any script in a web client. In the studio they could be used the same way any other command, drag and dropping them. The ...
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration
1 MERGED

Execute Code Command

Merged
Create a command for WDG that allows to execute code in different languages, such as Python, Java, .Net...
over 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration
5 MERGED

Add your own scripts to the Toolbox

Merged
I want to be able to add my own scripts to the toolbox. These scripts should be shared with other users.
over 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 1 Future consideration
3 MERGED

Workflow: CreateBatch command, validate that the batch already exists

Merged
The command to createBatch, would have to have the option to check if Batch exists, if there is to use, otherwise, create. Because today we have to validate via code if there is already a lot by name.
about 3 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 4 Not under consideration
3 MERGED

Allow import of .net libraries (nuget)

Merged
IBM RPA could allow the use of .net libraries for cases where there are not yet native IBM RPA commands created to perform some action
almost 2 years ago in Robotic Process Automation 0 Future consideration