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The latest Nintex Bot v16.6.11 / RPA Central v1.4.7 release have been posted. You can find more details here.

Great news for those wanting to take their RPA skills to the next level: Nintex is now offering VILT at the Expert level. Course DescriptionIn this hands-on course, students build on their existing Nintex RPA Practitioner experience by learning advanced scripting techniques using Microsoft Excel, File & Folder and Custom Lists and Looping. Learn these techniques by developing Botflows alongside the instructor, while having the opportunity to ask questions. This fabulous course is offered: 9/30, 10/15, and 10/28. Space is limited. To register go to Nintex University: https://learn.nintex.com/live-building-complex-rpa-botflows-expert. 

In December, the overall navigation within RPA Central will be changed to provide a unified and seamless experience within the Nintex product platform.  In the new version and going forward, the right hand side Action panel, that you may be familiar with in NWC, will be utilized to provide a consistent experience in editing and configuring your botflows.  This includes assigning bots(s), scheduling and publishing a Botflow™ all from one action panel, instead of three separate pages in the current RPA Central.  In the new RPA Central, we are also improving your experience in setting repeating schedules for your Botflows™.  As an example, you can set your days of the week repeating schedules by selecting a time, the day(s) of the week and setting the repeating interval, all from the same place.The Jobs function will also be retired.  The Jobs function was limited, did not provide any added benefit and Botflows can just as easily fill that role and more through the action panel.  Through

We are excited to inform you of an upcoming Nintex RPA Central 2.0 release that will deliver a new user interface as well as improved feature functionality. We have redesigned RPA Central to make it much more intuitive and streamlined to help you manage your RPA Botflows™ more efficiently. The new user interface will be similar to our best-in-class Nintex Workflow automation, making for a more seamless experience.In addition to a more contemporary interface you will also enjoy improved feature functionality including more configuration and scheduling capabilities. With the new RPA Central, you will be able to configure, schedule, and publish a Botflow using a single window, where previously it required navigation to multiple pages. This is a pre-release announcement and more updates will be posted throughout the month.

The latest RPA Central and v16 release have been posted.  You can find more details here.

I am a long-term user of Foxtrot RPA, but have never used it to automate functions in the Fiserv Premier system using their Navigator user interface.  My new employer uses Premier/Navigator as their core banking system and I will need to be writing RPA automation for it going foward.  Does anyone have any documentation of "best practices" or recommendations for using RPA with Fiserv Premier/Navigator?

Hey all,  I need to go to a certain screen of a website, however, to get to this screen you have to click on a tab, which creates a drop down box of links that you can click on, and then click on the link you want. The manual process looks somewhat like this: Hover mouse of 'Inquiry' tab >  scroll down drop box > click on link When replicated in Foxtrot it misses the link I want to click on for some reason. Also, when you click on the link, it doesnt create a new webpage with a different URL, so you can't bypass this by just coding the bot to go straight to that URL. Anyone have any advice on how to get through this?

Has anyone upgraded RPA to 16.6.1 and had issues with the open data step?  It works as expected when you run the bot manually.  However, when launching from RPA Central the bot stalls out at the step.  We upgraded from 16.5.5 to 16.6.1.  We tried disabling, then re-creating the open data step.  Still results in the same stall.  We are working with support, but was wondering if anyone else had experienced this.   Thank you for your time, Kyle

I'm attempting to setup a Botflow to interact with a REST service. When passing the initial credentials to the logon endpoint, the service will send an authentication token in the response header (which is different then the response content).  Is there a way to capture the header response in the REST task? I see the content and status code can be saved, but not the header.I took a quick glance at the Workflow product and see that in it's "Call a web service" task it's got an option for the response header... just need the same thing for RPA.Thanks! 

can we save fsf files in fsp format ? is there any way to process it ? i.e. foxtrot project files conversion to foxtrot project format

I have a list of PDF documents in Windows Explorer. I need to link each document individually into SAP. I therefore need to know how to select the top document (that I know how to do) and when it is linked, move to the second, third, fourth, etc. document in Windows Explorer.

Hello!I'm trying to set filter for several columns in Excel workbook. The first action "Set Filter" works good, but the second action "Set Filter" for another column clean all my table and disable selection maded by first action "Set Filter".  What should I do for multiple column filter? Thank you! 

Nintex will no longer add net new functionality to v15 or older versions of Foxtrot.  Support for bugs or security fixes will continue.  This may include bugs or security fixes related to existing features or capabilities.  New functionality will be added to v16 and releases can be found here under Nintex RPA tab. .

I have created couple of RPA scripts and would like to merge both into one. is there any way to do this? or can we copy and paste the two scripts in to one and use it  ?

We were upgraded to RPA Central recently so now all designers can edit or run botflows. We used to manage this by network access and keeping the scripts in the specific network locations for specific users. What is the best way to restrict designer access for specific botflows on RPA Central?

Has anyone found a good change management tool for RPA (Foxtrot)?  This has always been a lacking issue when it was Enablesoft.  There is nothing preventing scripts from being changed as long as the end user has permission.  I want to be able to know what changes from version to version for my teams scripts.  As we built out our scripts to run automatically instead of manual kick off this would be a big win for our risk team.  Maybe this could be an enhancement, but from a control/risk standpoint, this is where RPA is failing.  Any thoughts out there?

Could someone help me in how I set up my workflow to exit if an error occur ? I can't find any examples or best pratice demos ! I have a flow who starts every hour and if it's fail because og missing source og missing access to file destination it simply shut down.

I have an Excel sheet where the date is stipulated as 4/12/20. I need to enter the date as 12/4/20 in SAP. Is there a way to convert the date into the 12/4/20 format?

Has anyone had experience upgrading from IBM i Access AS400 to IBM Access Client 5250 emulator?  Our core vendor is forcing us to upgrade and we cannot seem to target the new emulator after the upgrade.  Running detect emulator does not work either.  Our core vendor is Jack Henry, and I'm sure this is just a setting that needs flipped.  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time,Kyle Barton

I am using RPA to enter values onto a web page.  There are instances where I will need to select an option from a drop down list.  When targeting the dropdown, RPA does not recognize a drop down.  I am therefore unable to make a selection. When I send a click, the drop down list appears but there is no option to select or search.  I am unable to script the correct selection.   Is there a way to script this instance? Attachments are included to show what is displayed.  When the click is sent and selection 2 displays, I am unable to read text or select the proper value when targeting the selection.

I see that RPAEngine.GetVar() works in VB.net but not in C#.  How can I access variables from C#?

Is there somewhere I can see the API docs for the C# library which contains RPAEngine and all other classes and namespaces?

I am interfacing with a web page and will be entering data using Foxtrot RPA.  The first entry page extends beyond the screen and will need to scroll to continue enterering data.  I am unable to get Foxtrot to recognize the scroll bar.  I have used Mouse sequence but when i replay the step, I get target not found.  I tried targeting the bottom scroll arrow and sending a click but Foxtrot does not recognize the area of the screen that i am targeting (?).  If I am unable to resolve this issue, we have have to abandon Foxtrot as an option.  Please assist.  Thank you!

Hi there! I tried to automate actions when you want to format data as table in Excel 2016. I use target "Excel" action "Send value" with param like this - [^Alt+H]T[Enter] - it works fine.And on this step I want to know how to check param "My table has headers" because time by time it checked and another time not checked.  Any suggestions?Thank you for advice!

I want to scrap the data from website (Table/Unordered List). But RPA doesn't recognise the table or list.https://www.esma.europa.eu/https://www.plus500.co.uk/