Project items

When you create a robotics implementation, you add the applications that you want to automate to your project. An application can be a Windows application, a Web application, or a Text application. For example, you develop a project for a shipping company that opens the company’s warehouse application, searches for a specific customer ID, and then retrieves their latest order history. To begin the process, you add the warehouse application to your project.

The core purpose of Pega Robot Studio is to create automations that contain the logic and workflow of the process you are automating. When working with automation, you:

• Create automated processes that require minimal user interaction.
• Include applications in the automation, then develop the process.
• Include other automations.

For example, you include a company’s warehouse application in an automation, then create the workflow to log in to the warehouse application. You then create the workflow to search for a customer’s order history. Finally, you create a main automation that includes both the log-in automation and the customer search automation. The main automation runs the log-in automation and then runs the customer search automation.

When working with multiple applications and automations, you often require a way to organize your robotics project. For example, you develop a project that uses three different applications and has many different automations. You create a folder for each application and store the application project items and any associated automations within those folders.

The Windows Form project item lets you create a window or dialog box within a Pega Robot Studio project. You can use a Windows Form as a user interface (UI), to act as the central UI hub in which end-users can interact with and complete business tasks, or as a debugging tool to test robots before integrating them with a Pega Platform™ application.

The Globals designer is a special project item that is automatically included in every project. Globals contain items that are accessible throughout the project, including global variables, diagnostic logs, and utility components. Items can be added to Globals manually or added automatically when you develop an automation. Folders can be used within the Globals container to organize these items.

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