Copying an entire Bot

Marc_Dillon · 05-12-2021 07:14 AM

Copying an entire Bot seems to create a copy of the Event, a copy of the Process, but NOT copies of the Tasks. Why? Isn’t this entire thing meant for re-usability of the component parts? So why copy the components at all? And why copy some but not the others?

@prithpal

Marc_Dillon

Further, now that I have my copy of the Bot, I’m wanting to change the Event back to the original, so I can then delete the unnecessarily copied Event, but there is no way to easily swap the Event from the Bot, you have to remove it, then add one back in.

Marc_Dillon

This confused me again today. I ended up accidentally editing the Task from the original bot, thinking it was a copy, which of course produced an error, then I had to undo and redo all of that work.

Koichi_Tsuji

This is one of the major confusion with us, which i addressed when the BOT was in place initially.

1minManager

Was just going to post this as an issue, when I found this post. For me, copying a bot should simply do a simple copy. Not also copy the elements within it.

Wouldn’t even need to copy if Bots allowed more than one trigger

Marc_Dillon

But they can!

Set up your Event with a more generic condition, then use “branch on a condition” Steps within your Process.

1minManager

So you mean set it up to trigger on an event then create a branching rule so that its run if this is the first trigger after say 0900?

Rifad

Copying bot is very confusing!

Koichi_Tsuji

Quite.