Unattended execution

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Hello, i would like some recomendations about unattended execution.

Because currently to do this i have a secondary PC that is powered on all day, with session initiated, with a monitor plugged in but turned off and no keyboard nor mouse that with a job in the Task Scheduler of windows, it runs everyday at 14:00.

I would like to know if there’re alternative ways of doing unnatended execution, because the one that i’m currently ussing is a bit shabby in my opinion, but it is what i came up with and what it’s currently working for me.

Thanks.

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That sounds good to me. Why exactly would you call it “shabby”?

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Because currently i was looking for a more clean solution, i know no better than this. And i’m kind of new to the framework.

If that’s the best it can get for an unnatended execution, i would also like to know.

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I run our automated macros on a Linux machine (a virtual machine, VirtualBox). So I need no additional hardware for it. We already had a big machine that hosts several virtual machines.

But the overall RPA setup (task scheduler/cron job, command line) is the same.

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Doesn’t the macro get your mouse to emulate Xclick, Xmove etc…?. Because my unnatended execution case is with desktop mode and I don’t think it will work with a virtual machine if it gets my actual mouse.

I think in browser it doesn’t get your mouse to emulate click.

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Virtual machines simulate having a real mouse, so it works 100%.

As I type this, a virtual machine is running in the background of my PC doing some Ui.Vision performance testing. It does not interfere with any other tasks I do on the machine.

So @Plankton recommendation is a very good one. We highly recommend running XClick (“real user simulation”) macros inside virtual machines. This allows you to run the task automation in the background, while doing something else in the foreground.

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