Flow Control and AI Employee Management Actions

These actions do not touch the applications the AI Employee is automating - they shape the job itself: jumping between actions, grouping and pacing them, reserving work so two AI Employees never collide, and capturing evidence of what happened.

Go To Action

Jumps to another action in the job sequence instead of continuing to the next one. Use it to build loops (jump back to an earlier action) or to skip ahead past steps that do not apply. Key setting: Go To Action - pick the target action from the job’s action list.

Action Group

A container that organizes related actions under one collapsible heading in the job designer. The group itself performs nothing, but if a group’s run-when condition is not met, every action inside it is skipped - so groups double as conditional blocks: put a branch’s steps in a group and let one condition govern them all.

Robot - Delay (Seconds)

Pauses the job for a set number of seconds before continuing. Use it to give an application time to finish loading or processing before the next action runs. Key setting: Delay (Seconds).

Robot - Delay (Until Time)

Pauses the job until the clock reaches a specific time of day, then continues. Use it to hold work until a system becomes available or a business cutoff passes - for example, wait until 1800 before posting the day’s batch. Key setting: Delay Until Time (24 Hour Format) - a time from 0000 to 2359.

Robot - Exclusively Reserve

Reserves the process instance the job is working on exclusively for this AI Employee, so no other AI Employee picks up work on the same instance at the same time. Use it at the start of a sequence that must not run twice in parallel - for example, before entering an order into an accounting system. The action requires the job to be running against a process instance.

Robot - Release Exclusive Reservation

Releases the exclusive reservation taken by Robot - Exclusively Reserve, making the process instance available to other AI Employees again. Place it after the protected steps are complete; the reservation is also released when the job ends.

Robot - Shut Down

Shuts down the active AI Employee: it stops accepting new work after the current job. Use it as a controlled stop at the end of a maintenance or end-of-day sequence - someone will need to start the AI Employee again before it resumes working.

Robot - Capture Screen to Audit Log

Takes a screen capture and saves it to the job run’s audit log, creating a visual record of what was on screen at that moment. Use it at key checkpoints - before and after a critical entry, for example - so you can review or prove what the AI Employee saw. The capture is also available to later actions in the job. Screenshots are skipped when the job runs in test mode.

Robot - Take Screen Capture to Memory

Takes a screenshot of the screen and holds it in memory as a file that later actions in the job can reference - for example, attaching it to a process field or including it with an AI file prompt. Unlike Robot - Capture Screen to Audit Log, nothing is written to the audit log; the image only exists for the rest of the job.