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Resolve Folder and Start a Job

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Resolve Folder and Start a Job

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Resolve folder context then start a job for a deployed process.

  1. List the folders accessible to the caller, filtered to the supplied folder name, to resolve the numeric folder ID used as the organization unit context.
  2. List the processes deployed in the resolved folder, narrowed by the supplied name filter, returning the release key needed to start a job.
  3. Start a job for the resolved process in the resolved folder using the supplied allocation strategy and input arguments.
What you'll need to have ready
  • folderName: Display name of the target folder to resolve the organization unit ID for.
  • processNameFilter: OData filter expression to locate the deployed process (e.g. Name eq 'Invoicing').
  • strategy: Robot allocation strategy for the job (All, Specific, JobsCount, RobotIds).
  • inputArguments: JSON-serialized input arguments passed to the process.
For your developer

Arazzo workflow uipath:resolve-folder-start-job, 3 operations: listFolders → listProcesses → startJobs. Specs on APIs.io.