How do you use the Assistant?

OpenRPA
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I downloaded the Assistant from the Github and logged in, but I dont see anything. Is this a tool much like UiPath Assistant?

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  • Openrpa consumes workflows and is primarely designed to do rpa ( automating using the user interface )
  • agents consumes packages containing code ( nodejs, javascript, python, powershell or dotnet ) and is designed to work as microservices. They can be used for rpa, but in realityt that would mostly be browser automation ( or image automation )

Or in other words, openrpa is designed to automate the ui, agents are designed to use api’s. Both can do rpa, borh can use api`s but the intent is like explained above.
Example on how to use agents ( like the assistent is explained here creating your first agent | openflow )

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Very cool. So, just as your opinion, do you think an agent could call a package that triggers a workflow to run on the same machine as the agent, from openflow? Im gonna play around with it tonight. I want to see if I can build a solution similar to UiPaths assistant where an automation can be triggered to run on the local machine where the assistant is.

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Yes, that is possible.
It’s not really documented anywhere, but you need to call QueueMessage with a payload of

{
    command: "invoke",
    workflowid: "1234",
    data: {"arg1": "hello world"}
}

and send it to the queue of the robot ( the _id of the user the robot is running as or a role the user is a member of, that also has the RPA role checked )

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