- Created by seongho, last modified by Unknown User (gracemin) on Jan 17, 2020
Installation
A. Please check the user account on your PC. Sometimes the user account language is not in English(Korean or Japanese), STU may not be executed. Please add the user ID in English to your PC.
A. Delete STU and PAM.(Control pannel → Remove programs → Delete STU and PAM)
Delete the paths as below,
- C:\Users\user_pc_name\argos-rpa.venv Delete Folder
- C:\Users\user_pc_name\.argos-rpa-config.yaml Delete File
- C:\Users\user_pc_name\.argos-rpa.log Delete Folder
- C:\Users\user_pc_name\ArgosScenarioStudio Delete File
- C:\Users\user_pc_name\AppData\Roaming\ArgosRPAUxRobotAgent.V3
- C:\Users\user_pc_name\AppData\Roaming\ARGOS Pam
- C:\Users\user_pc_name\AppData\Roaming\ArgosScenarioStudio
A. Please check PAM and STU version in 'Add/Remove Programs' in Control Pane.
Or you can see the version by mouse right clicking PAM and STU each on the ARGOS RPA Service Tray.
- STU
- PAM
A. Right Click on PAM, click 'Check for updates'. You can see update guide.
(Check for updates→ Update)
Supervisor
A. Please check PAM status. Run ARGOS RPA Service Tray → Service Status → PAM Manager : Star
If you are using LAN, WiFi at the same time, you should add 2 PAMs, (Wired and wireless mac addresses)
A. After Supervisor login, click 'Scenario' on the left menu bar. You can select the trash bin under Action menu.
A. You can see the more specific information by clicking '?' icon of 'Cron Text'. You will see the example via 'https://crontab.guru/'.
- Cron Text icon
A. Please check your license you have on the left top.
You can check the using resources [Available /Total counts] on the left bar.
If it is not able to add PAM and Scenario, check your Scenario/PAM license.
A. Please check 'My Plugin' of Plugin menu. You can control ON/OFF on the list.
STU
Is it safe to ignore 'Windows Protected your PC' message when installing 'ARGOS'?
Yes.
You can see this warning message when the code signing certification is changed. Because ARGOR has been authorized from global SSL certificates company, ComodoSSL, you can install & use without any worrying anything. ARGOS does not contain any malicious code or virus-like code.
How do I do if I see the message ?
Click 'More Info' and check out it was distributed by ARGOS LABS.
Normal message is like this.App: ARGOS RPA+ ScenarioStudio.R19.0723.exe
Publisher: ARGOS LABS
- Click 'Run anyway' and proceed your installation to next
- Click 'Yes" when you see "Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device?"
※ See below movie
What is 'Windows Protected your PC' message ?
A. It is saved in [Saved Text] variable which is accessible from Text Input operation and Set Variable operation.
A. Being at the foremost layer of the screen does not necessarily mean Windows focus is on it. You must reactivate the App by inserting Select Window operation or Click and Focus operation immediately before.
A. Upto STU ver. R19.0917, it has three (3) variable schemes. They are 1)predefined global variables, 2)user defined variables, and 3)plugin defined variables. In the plugin, only when you desire a CSV to stored as a variable, you must use the plugin defined variable. In this case, the values are stored in multi dimesional CSV format and you can acces data by a notation as {{group name.header name(row number)}}. In this case, the header name comes from the first row of the data (row = 0). If the first row contains data check box has been checked the header name are automatically assigned to A,B,C,D, as in Excel sheet (in uppercase alphabets). The row number must be an integer.
A. If you have tested the bot before the crash, the last tested bot is stored in this folder. C:\Users\[YOURUSERNAMEHERE]\AppData\Roaming\ArgosScenarioStudio\ScenarioFiles\TestRun We are very sorry that STU crashed on you. Please send the log to our tech support team and we will try our best to prevent it from happening in the future.
A. The default save path has been changed from ‘Application data’ to ‘Documents’ since R19.0917.
It won't change with the update, but it will change easily when loading the bot from another folder.
- Default Bot storage: %homepath%\documents\ArgosScenarioStudio\ScenarioFiles
It is a folder where you opened (or saved) a Bot at the previous running of STU.
STU always remembers the last folder information. ( stored in Windows Registry )
- How to change the default save path
- Default location: %homepath%\documents\ArgosScenarioStudio\ScenarioFiles
- Change ‘Scenario File path’ in ‘Settings > Options’
- Move the existing Bots to ‘Default location’ and load any Bot into STU.
A. There is no standard to use. You can use anything that is well recognized. But Google Vision API can be used only in internet environment and easy to identify even if more than one language is used.
e.g English + Korean
• Google Vision API : Good
• Tesseract : OK
A. Duration defines the time period of the key(s) to be pressed down. Regardless of the duration, the key stroke is down and up.
A. If there are several images that can be found as clipping images in the search location, this function allows you to set the number of images to be based on. For example, if you have the following operation, click on the fourth image of the same images in the screenshot.
The order, Y-coordinate is from the top nd X-coordinate is from the left side. The y coordinate is from the top, and the x coordinate is from the left. Entering '3' will click ③ in the image below.
A. A MAC (Media Access Control) address is a unique ID assigned to every internet-connected machine that allows it to be identified when connected to a specific network.
To find the MAC address on your Windows computer,
- Click on the Start menu in the bottom-left corner of your computer. Select Run or type cmd into the search bar at the bottom of the Start menu to bring up the command prompt.
- Type ipconfig /all (note the space between the g and /).
- The MAC address is listed as series of 12 digits, listed as the Physical Address (e.g 00:00:00:a1:2b:cc). Each network adapter (wireless, Ethernet, etc.) has a separate MAC address.
To find the MAC address on your Apple computer,
- Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu.
- Select Network.
- Choose Airport for the wireless adapter MAC and click Advanced (the MAC address is listed as Airport ID).
- Choose Built-in Ethernet and click Advanced and Ethernet (listed as Ethernet ID) for the network cable adapter MAC.
A. After checking String value then you can use the String value column name result you want to use as CSV valuable.
A. With Arithmetic Op and Compare Value Operation, you can repeat the Operations as much as you want, by calculated numbers from Arithmetic Op and Compare Value Operation.
A. App title and App name used in 'Locate Image', 'Image Match' and 'Select Window' can be replaced with wildcard(*), please use (*)in your App title and App name.
A. Enter the word you want to find in 'Regular Expression' field as “string1 | string2 | string3 |" to find all the corresponding strings.
A. Please retake the screenshot and set the verification area again. If this process fails again, please delete the operation and reset the operation.
A. There is a box to select 'Above' and 'Below' from the advanced options of the image match. Set the box to Below and use the disappearing image for verification.
A. You always have to use Open browser Operation to use those two actions.(both chrome and IE)
A. Go to settings – SMTP menu and enter your mail info. This process will automatically fill up your send email values every time you add send email operation.
A. Change Operation time of Options under Settings menu, the verification timeout of all operations will be changed at once.
A. Values of '3' is the effect of scrolling down your mouse wheel once. If you want to scroll up, please enter '-3' in scroll box.
A. To show the popup again, simply delete the scenario_sitecode.yaml file. The yaml file path is,
- If it was Test run, it is saved as Scenario Name_Sitecode.yaml file in STU installation path.
e.g C:\Program Files (x86)\ArgosScenarioStudio\scenario_name_1.yaml
- If it was schedule running, it is saved as Scenario_sitecode.yaml in the system folder.
e.g C:\Windows\system32\scenario_name_1.yaml
Current changes are scheduled to run PAM with a general account without administrator privileges, so the path of yaml file will be changed later.
A. 1) Windows Settings
2) Update & Security
3) For Developers > Developer mode
A. You can see the result of the most recent result in 'Show last test run results' under 'RUN' menu.
<Last test run Result>
A. Please send us screenshot of Error popup and give us summary of your work to tech@argos-labs.com.
And please send us of PAM, STU log file by right clicking PAM and STU icon, which is located in Windows services tray. You can send us log file by Send log button.
A. Please save your scenario with “save as” located in file menu, you can share your scenario with scenario.bot file. But to use bot file on other persons PC, STU must be installed in the other persons PC.
A. We recommend you to add Delay in your 'Text Input' operation. The default value of delay is 0.5 sec but you can enter as many delay time as you want in your scenario. Dummy time before text input can give you stable typing.
A.
1. Excel
After assigning Array variable, you can save as many values as the cell range in the variable using 'Excel'.
2. Repeat
You can set number of Repeat using the variable value.
You can use rp.index in 'Repeat' for multiple ids using Array variable. Each iteration uses a different id stored in Array.
3. Type Text
You can also use Valuable in TypeText.
{{name.name({{rp.index}})}}.xlsx
4. Send Email
A. When you use [Locate Image] down click and up click to select an area on the screen, you have to do it either one of the 2 ways below.
1) at the origin --- Locate Image - Down
2) at the destination --- Locate Image - DownAndUp
OR
1) at the origin --- Locate Image - Down
2) at the destination --- Locate Image - No Click (mouse over)
3) at the destination --- Locate Image - Up
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