UI Activities

Version: 1.0.4  ·  ID: zoan-packages-ui  ·  Author: Zoan Software

The UI package displays dialogs on the screen to interact with the person using the bot: show a message or ask for a piece of data. It is meant for assisted automations, where a person takes part at some point.

Only for attended mode

These activities display a window and wait for a user to respond. Therefore, they only make sense in attended mode (with a person in front of the screen). In an unattended run (a server with nobody present), the bot would be stuck waiting for an answer that never comes. Don’t use dialogs in automatic processes; to record information use Log, and to stop on a problem use Throw.

They need Windows with an interactive desktop

Dialogs are shown on the desktop of the session where the robot runs. If the Agent runs as a Windows service (Session 0), there is no desktop to show them on and the activity fails with a message that explains it.

Activities

Activity	Type	Output	What it does
Message Box	message-box	string	Shows a message and returns the button clicked
Input Dialog	input-dialog	string	Asks the user for a text and returns it

Next steps

• Message Box — show a notice or ask for confirmation.
• Input Dialog — ask for a piece of data.