Trigger mappings

The "Trigger mappings" section shows available trigger mappings. Triggers are part of the Attended Automation functionality in Desktop Automation robots. A trigger robot is a robot that reacts to an event on a remote device. After uploading a robot with a trigger to a Management Console, you can map the robot to users and/or labels. After that the Management Console provides a list of triggers to the Desktop Automation Service based on the created mappings. When a trigger event is detected on a remote device, the Desktop Automation Service sends a notification to the Management Console and the robot performs some programmed steps. For example, you can program the robot to insert or extract some data when a certain application is opened.

Kofax RPA supports user and label mappings for robots. User mapping is only available for robots with triggers. You can enable or disable triggers in a robot in the Robots section.

The "Trigger mappings" section contains two tabs: Users and Labels. The Users tab shows robots with assigned user mapping. The Labels tab shows robots with assigned labels. You can only assign user mappings to robots with triggers.

You can change the way the information for each mapping is presented as follows:

  • Filter the list of trigger mappings in the table by applying filters. You can filter by robot name and user/label name, depending on the selected tab. When creating a trigger mapping, you can filter the list of robots.
  • Refresh the displayed information by clicking the refresh icon on the right.

Users

The following information is displayed for each user mapping.

Column

Description

Robot name

Name of the robot that the user mapping is based on.

Triggers

Names of the associated triggers.

Project name

Name of the project that the user mapping belongs to.

User name

Users that the robot is mapped to.

Labels

The following information is displayed for each label mapping.

Column Description
Robot name Name of the robot that the label mapping is based on.
Project name Name of the project that the label mapping belongs to.
Label Labels that the robot is mapped to.

Create User Mapping

  1. Click the plus sign on the Users tab.

    The "Add trigger-user mapping" dialog box appears.

  2. On the Robots tab, select robots that the mapping will be based on. On the Users tab, select users to map the robots to. Click OK.

    The new mapping is added to the table. If you selected multiple robots, multiple new mappings are added.

Create Label Mapping

  1. Click the plus sign on the Labels tab.

    The "Add trigger-label mapping" dialog box appears.

  2. Select robots that the mapping will be based on and then add labels to map the robots to. Click OK.

    The new mapping is added to the table. If you selected multiple robots, multiple new mappings are added.

Additionally, you can perform the following actions on trigger mappings from the context menu:

  • Edit: Contains the same fields as the "Add trigger-user mapping" dialog box.

To remove a trigger mapping from the Management Console, select it in the table and click the bin icon in the upper left corner. You are prompted to confirm the deletion.