SAP Intelligent RPA Trial - Get Ready to build Bots...

[Vijay]

I got the opportunity to attend some sessions on SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (RPA ) in SAP TechED 2019, Bangalore and unfortunately the service was not available on trial account at that time to try this out ...

As you might be knowing by now that SAP Intelligent RPA is now available on trail account also and we can try our hands on it for real... wow..its wonderful...isn't it?

Check out this wonderful blog SAP Intelligent RPA – enablement and getting started by lena.grothaus to check the list of assets and enablement opportunities on SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation.

But,before we start building our bots, we need to get our system ready for this. So, in this blog we are going to see what all need to be done before we start using the tool with SCP trial account... so up for it? lets begin...

Subscribe to SAP Intelligent RPA service in SCP

To start with, we need to subscribe the SAP IRPA service under SCP Cloud Foundry trial account

Authorization and Trust Management

Next we need to assign the required roles to the RPA user. Below the available roles in SCP for the same.

Role	Description
IRPAAgentUser	Runs an agent
IRPASupervisor	Monitors all the jobs and the status of agents
IRPASystemManager	Imports projects Manages and configures packages Schedules job executions Creates / manages hierarchies Creates / manages environments Monitors all job executions
IRPAOfficer	All IRPASystemManager rights Runs an agent Removes references to former employees
IRPAPersonalDataAccess	Gives access to job details

So, we first need to create a new role colection of the required roles and assign the same.

Assign, the newly created role collection under the trust configuration

Create a Service Key

To access the SAP IRPA we need the the service key from the service instance.

• Go to the CF Trial subaccount

• Get inside the space

• Go to Service marketplace and click on 'irpa-service-trial'

• Click on Instance

• Create the IRPA service instance.
  

  Note:Do not specify any optional parameters or assign any applications.At the end of the creation process, you enter a name for the service instance of your choice and confirm the creation.

  
  

• Generate the service key

With this we have finished the SCP setup.

On-premise Components Setup

Before installing the SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation on-premise components the following prerequisites and system requirements should be met

• You need administrator rights on the system.


• Make sure the following elements are installed on your machine:
  
  
  
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
  
  
  • NET framework 4.6.2 (or a higher version)
  
  
  • Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable Package x86 (only for the Desktop Studio, not required for Agent)
  
  
  
  

Remote Tools For Visual Studio 2019 (only for the Desktop Studio, not required for Agent).

SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation: Desktop Components for Trial

Download the SAP IRPA desktop components from the https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#cloud

Installing SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation On-premise Components

Procedure

• Launch the downloded MSI file execution.The following window will be displayed:

• Select Next.
  
  
  
  • Select the components you want to install.You can choose to install the components according to your needs:
    
    
    
    • The Desktop Agent installation is enabled by default.Install the Desktop Agent for run-time machines where the automation projects are executed.
    
    
    • Select the installation of the optional components Desktop Studio and SDK to achieve a complete setup. It enables a full use of SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation: development,orchestration and execution of automation projects.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Select Installto start the installation.

The installation process may take a few seconds to complete. An authorization request to bring change to the computer might appear.

       

• Once the installation has been successfully completed, select the checkbox to launch SAP Intelligent Robotic Process AutomationDesktop and click Finish

     

 

Desktop Agent Tenant Registration

Once you've completed the installation steps of the SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation setup wizard, you need to register a tenant so that you can execute the Desktop Agent.

Procedure

• When the Desktop Agent Tenant Registration window pops up, enter:

o    the name of your tenant

o    the SAP Intelligent RPA Factory tenant URL you want to connect to

• On Save, login window will pop up. Enter your SCP username or email and password to login

• You should be connected to your destop Agent

Congratulations, you successfully installed the on-premise components of SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation. You must perform a few additional steps to finalize the installation if you want to use the SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation Desktop Studio.

Additional Requirements for Post Installation

Installing a Source Code Compare Tool

• Go to here  to download the latest KDiff3 version

• Double-click the saved executable file to start the installation process.


• Click Next and accept the license terms to continue with the installation.

• Change the default destination folder if necessary and click Next.


• Click Install to begin the installation.

• After the installation progress dialog, click Finish to exit the setup wizard.

Web Browsers Configuration (Google Chrome)

The Desktop Studio installation automatically install the web browser extension for Chrome. You then need to enable that extension:

• Open Google Chrome.


• Click the three dots in the upper right of your browser.


• Select More Tools> Extensions.


• Click the toggle button to activate the SAP Intelligent RPA Extension.

With this we are done with the post installation activities.Let's now check is all is ok!!

Quick Installation Check-Up

This check-up is a quick procedure for validating that the installation is complete

• Start Desktop Studio


• Configure diff and merge tool
  
  
  
  • Open the Desktop Studio Settings dialog box via File >Settings.
  
  
  
  

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  • Open the Workflow Settings panel by clicking the Workflow tab.
  
  
  
  

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  • In the Merge section, configure your diff and merge tool.
  
  
  
  

• Create a new project using File>New Project.

• Type the project name (for example, FirstProject), type a title and client name.

• Click Save.


• Build the project using Debug >Build.

 

• Check the output panel. It should include: “Build done : 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)”.

 

With this, we are all set and ready to build our bots!!! 🙂

Wish you all a vey HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020. Keep Learning and Keep Sharing!!

[chandrasekarK]

Hi vijay.sharma4

Yes it is working fine with other technologies. I facing this issue only in web capture. and also i have reinstalled my studio also.

[Vijay]

Hi Dilsher,

 

You need to add all the roles mentioned in blog to the role collection. I can see only one in your screenshots.

Regards

Vijay

[former_member6661]

Hello vijay.sharma4,

I have an error when execute my project, agent shows message (1st step) but then time out

 

 

[Vijay]

Hi jorge.diaz.nbteamconsulting

Please try including delay in between you actions as screen changes takes some time before the next action.

Regards

Vijay

[former_member6661]

Hello and thanks by support!

I added delay but problem persists.  Message "Hola" is shown but then click on bouton "create incident" not ocurrs and agent show time out

 

[Vijay]

I guess page pHomeSolman is taking time. Try try further by insert a “wait until” step to wait until pHomeSolman exists...

thanks

Vijau

[former_member6661]

Hello Vijau! thanks by supporting!

I think that I have an elemental mistake.

I did a new project with simple steps.

This my application, with an item

This is my workflow

These are my activities

Log shows time out

Regards

 

 

[Vijay]

Hi Jorge,

I quickly tried it and is working fine for me. Below are the screen of how i did it.Please try with exact steps.

 

 

 

Thanks

Vijay

[former_member6661]

Hello and thanks by support!

I did exactly the same but the error persist... according my log page not exist.  In your log count is 1 and page exist

When I clicking in debug, I see in page tab and page help sap.com not open.  Then I open agent and clicking in SearchSAP, then page help sap.com open but time out ocurrs

Regards

[former_member6661]

Hello! I found the problem! It is needed add SAP intelligent RPA Extension in browser! regards

[former_member6661]

Hello! I found the problem! It is needed add SAP intelligent RPA Extension in browser! regards

[Vijay]

Oh ok.. but it was mentioned  under prerequisites in the blog..did you miss that?

Glad,it worked for you now.

Regards

Vijay

[sugandhan11]

Hi Evereyone,

I like to open chrome browser using RPI and login into an UI5 using the credentials. Please help me to do this

[former_member6661]

Yes! I did miss it!

Now, my agent is paused... and doesn't project..

 

 

 

 

 

[yilmazozkn]

Hi Vibhor, today I had experience same issue and there is no information for it.
Anyway I found the solution ?

Problem is related with opened accounts in Internet Explorer,

Desktop Agent is using Explorer(I think it doesn’t check the default browser) browser to confirm credentials after define a tenant,
So if your different account is open on Explorer, input page is not shown and Agent takes errror.

Solution is that, logout the account in page cockpit.hanatrial on Explorer.

By the way thank you vijay.126 for this great blog.

BR,
Özkan

[former_member651816]

Hi Vijay,

I have subscribed ‘irpa-service-trial’ and created a new role and assigned under role collection. But I am unable to find  ‘irpa-service-trial’ under “Service marketplace” tab. Hence not able to create instance and service Key.

I have followed all the steps shown in this blog. please help me.

PFB the screenshot:

I could see SAP irpa trial option under Entitlement tab

[TusharNathvani]

Hi,

I am also facing the same issue.

if you find the solution for this then please let me know how can we resolve it.

 

Regards,

Tushar

[former_member276617]

Hi Vijay,

Your blog post is great - thank for this ... However, I have the same issue as the user above with the desktop agent - it shows Error " Registration Failed" - The factory could not register the user"

 

I can log into my SCP account fine, so I have no idea what is causing this - I also never have an option to actually log into the desktop agent, it automatically does it so I don't know what user ID/password is being given ... I see that the user ID provided on the desktop agent is my windows ID which is different then what S-user ID so not sure if that is the issue , but I don't even have an option to reenter a login for the desktop agent ... I even reinstalled but the same thing happens.

Any help would be great... I would love to go and try this RPA funcitionality out!

 

[former_member686438]

hi.

desktop agent says it is unable to register users (registration error), but i got the satisfactory log in page. also i can get logged into the application web with the same. do you know what the problem is? thanks

[former_member686438]

sorry, another cuestion.

when i execute the debbug function for the "hello world" worflow test,  it says the javascript debugger is disabled.

it doesnt appear the pop up and the new windows opens but it is all blank.

what can i do?

thanks

[former_member687150]

Hi,

 

Desktop Agent says there is another agent running and I cannot open it. Do you know how to fix this?

[Vijay]

Hi Neal,

Open the task manager and kill the running session of desktop agent.then it should work.

Thanks

Vijay

 

[Vijay]

Please check if you are passing the correct tennant URL if password is correct.

 

Thanks

Vijay

[former_member687150]

Hi Vijay I have tried killing the running session and it automatically opens a new process in the background. I have also tried changing the desktop service to manual instead of automatic and it still will reopen automatically in the background. I will still get the same error. Any other suggestions?

[former_member687695]

hello vijay sharma,i dont get a pop up after running the desktop studio debugger.

one more issue my desktop debugger is dont show any event …

help me soon please

[thomastrain]

Hello,

I have got stuck with the issue of the desktop agent not being able to validate the log-in, as shown in the attached screen grab.  I have tried most of the options that I could come across while trying to resolve this issue (like changing registry, adding <meta... at the top of the file under <head...) but this has made no difference.  Whle invoking the desktop agent, there is a blank screen which is perhalps the place in which the user id / pwd is to be entered but this does not change, what ever option I try.  This is being done using a trial account (the set up of which I have followed the online documentation).  Need some quick help.

Thanks in advance / Ravishankar

Blank Screen

[Vijay]

thomastrain

Hi Ravi,

You need to login to the destop agent to connect it to your Cloud Factory iRPA tennant.

Try by naviagting to dskttop agen setting -> Tennat and it should ask you to login.

[thomastrain]

Hi Vijay,

Thanks.  I had tried all of this and more (referred your blog too).  Finally, got it fixed using trial and error.

You can find the current status of this under:

https://answers.sap.com/questions/13087423/desktop-agent-in-warning-state.html?childToView=13087581&...

Thanks  / Ravishankar

[former_member683869]

Hi vijay.sharma4

Thanks for the article.

i installed SAP IRPA V 1.0.5.57, the studio installation was successful but facing issue with the Desktop Agent. Agent tray is not showing up fully to complete the tenant registration,attached screen shot for your refference.

Also i am unable to move /expand the tray for the complete look up.

Kindly requesting you to please have a look and help me on this.

Agent tray is not showing up fully for further proceedings.

Thanks,

Avinash Y

[Vijay]

Try restarting the Agent by killing the current task. Seems like the application is stuck

[former_member683869]

vijay.sharma4 no luck after doing this,still same issue.

 

Is their any specific SPOC or COE to reach out for solving this technical issues ?

Thanks,

Avinash

[Vijay]

Post a query in SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation Community.

[former_member683869]

ok sure.

Thanks

[S0024873964]

Hi Vijay,

 

Thank you for guiding us.

i did all installations,could you please guide me where can i find and how can i open Desktop studio in my system for quick installation checkup

[Vijay]

Hilakshmareddy.5,

You should be able to find it on the windows start menu programs as shown below. You could just search for Desktop Studio on you system.

Vijay

[andres_lopez2]

Hello vijay.sharma4

Thanks for this by this guide,

Actually i have a problem and it's that the Desktop Studio not it's installed after of perform all the steps.

Thanks for help me.

[Vijay]

Whats the error you are getting?

[sairampadarthi]

Hi Vijay,

Iam getting an issue while capturing page in desktop studio as ".png" is denied. Can you please help me in solving the issue

Thanks in advance

[former_member691893]

Hi Vijay

I am currently using Trial account and was successfully able to deploy all projects. but recently while creating a trigger for a package I am getting the below error. I have tried deleting existing projects , packages and triggers but still receive the same error. Also is there a way to get some more jobs as my number of jobs in Trial account is about to get over .

Error

[Vijay]

Hi sulagna

There are limits to trial account. please check below SAP note for details.

2870643 - SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation - Trial information and Quotas

 

Regards

Vijay

[former_member1227]

This is a good guide, thank you very much, it helped me a lot

[Vijay]

felixluen

Thanks Luis!

[former_member267467]

Thanks Vijay. Do you know the product details in terms of the cost and how SAP RPA is different and efficient from the rest of the products in the market?

Regards,
Siva Kumar

[former_member231153]

Hi Siva,

If I may: please check this overview presentation. Also, for pricing, please check the SAP Store.

Kind regards,

Lena

[former_member715406]

Hi vijay.sharma4,

I am facing the following error while trying to register the agent.

Please find the details below:

I am trying this from Amazon WorkSpace and facing this error. While the same steps are working fine in my local desktop and I am able to register the agent successfully. Please let me know if any special configuration is to be performed in Amazon WorkSpace for this.

Awaiting your reply. Thanks in advance.

[Vijay]

reachme_shreyash64

Hi Suresh,

I am not sure if anything additional is required for amazon workspace. I would suggest you to post a query on the community and someone might have the answer.

Regards

Vijay

[former_member716319]

Hi Vijay,

i have followed the steps and configured IRPA. when i execute simple bot from Desktop Studio getting status as “Running” for long time and no response. when i give debug debugger opens and no response. I have attached screenshot for both issue. please help on this.

Regards

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[Vijay]

divya_bh68

Hi Divya,

Sometimes it gets stuck . So try triggering debug couple of times and you should see events triggering and job getting created in System tray.

 

Thanks

Vijay

[former_member716319]

Hi vijay,

 

Thanks for you response.

Am facing this issue since i have started with my trial version.

 

Regards

Divya

[mohit_bansal3]

Thanks vijay.sharma4 , It is really awesome step b y step blog, which really helped to set up the system smoothly. Again thanks for sharing. #KeepSharing#KeepLearning