Control Tower UI

The Control Tower interface comprises of the following:

·       Top Bar

§           Search Robots

§           Notification

§           User Settings

·       Navigation panel

 

Top Bar

The top bar comprises of search, notifications and other user settings.

 

Search Robots

For the large-scale deployments where hundreds of robots are visible to a user, the capability to search for the robots as per different criteria is required. In Control Tower, you can search  a robot using the following criteria:

·       Robot Name- Name of the robot

·       Created By- Username of the person who created the robot

·       Assigned To  -  Username of  the person whom the robot is assigned

·       Robot Tags- The tag assigned to the robot

 

 

To search for the required robot:

1.    Click the   (Arrow key) and select the filter criteria.

2.    Enter the filter criteria. As you type, the auto-suggest functionality displays the list of robots matching the entered characters.

3.    Click the (Search) icon or press Enter key to view the complete list.

 

 

The search result for the robot is displayed.

4.    Select the robot to view the robot details page.

 

 

Notification

The (Notification) icon is displayed at the upper-right of the Control Tower window. This icon indicates the count of the latest notifications regarding robots. Following are types of notifications:

·       Generic notifications  such as Robot create, edit and delete.

·       User-specific notifications such as Robot start, Robot stop, Robot connect, Robot disconnect, Robot update, Schedule add, Schedule delete, Schedule edit, Robot assign,Robot release, trigger add, trigger delete, trigger enable or disable and trigger update.

 

To view the notifications:

Click the  (Notifications) icon to view the notification details. 

 

 

The Notifications page is displayed.

 

User Settings

The User Settings at the upper-right corner allows you to manage the following settings.

 

Update Time-Zone

Select any of the global time-zones for viewing the control tower details specific to the time-zone. The system automatically converts the time from one time zone to another.

 

To update time-zone:

1.    On the Top bar, click the (Drop down) icon and then, click Update Timezone.

 

 

The Select Timezone window appears.

2.    In the Select Timezone, select the preferred Time zone.  

 

 

3.    Click SET.

The time-zone selection does not impact the occurrence of any event and only updates the view on the Control Tower.

 

Change Language

The script for the Control Tower can be updated by using the change language option in the user settings.

 

To change language in control tower:

1.    On the Top bar, click the (Drop down) icon and then, click Change Language.

 

 

The Change Language window appears.

2.    In the Select Language list, select the preferred language. By default, English, German, Spanish and Japanese languages are enabled.

 

 

3.    Click SET. For example, in the below image language is changed to Japanese (日本語").

 

 

Enabling New Scripts in Control Tower

Additionally, you can add More languages as per the business needs.

 

To enable new scripts:

1.    Add the language to be configured in config.yml file

·       Navigate to config.yml in the build folder at $/App/ControlTower/config

·       Add the language in key-value pair in config.yml. For example: SUPPORTED_LANGAUGES: '[{"key":"en-US","value":"English"},{"key":"de","value":"Deutsch"},{"key":"ja","value":"日本語"}]'

2.    Add independent language resource files each language

·       Location of resource file in build folder: $/Apps/ControlTower/public/i18n

 

Logout

Click Logout to end the current Control Tower session.

 

 

Navigation panel - Tabs

The tabs available on the navigation panel varies based on the logged in user role's access to particular tabs. Following tabs will be available on the Navigation panel:

·       Dashboard

·       Robot View

·       Process View

·       Credential Manager

·       Reports

·       Trigger Manager

·       Update Management

·       Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

 

Expand and Collapse View of Control Tower

Expand View of Control Tower

Click  to expand the Control Tower view.

 

 

Collapse View of Control Tower

Click  to collapse the Control Tower view.

    

Component Unavailable - Error Message

If you try to log into the application and not able to login;  an error message appears on the page. This error may appear in the following circumstances:

·       In case of any dis-connectivity between the RPA components.

·       In case any dependent components such as Agent/Robot agent/Listener is down.

·       In case user has logged in to system for longer time and session time expires.

 

 

You can login to system and start working, once all the components are started and running. For more information about the details of error or troubleshoot, see Troubleshooting Guide.

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