Hello,

Unfortunately, using creator or attended lisence there is no direct method to run the bot from a desktop shortcut. However, I can offer the following suggestions for you to try and achieve this:

 - Implement a hotkey trigger, enabling you to run the bot by pressing a specific keystroke on your machine.

   Example: CTRL+g+h to run the payments bot.

The only challenge lies in activating the control room login on the machine.

To address this issue, you can activate the login through an control room API or by utilizing scripts.

If you are using unattended bot licence for runner you can use hot keys effectively without any problems.

Here is link to setup hot keys : https://docs.automationanywhere.com/bundle/enterprise-v2019/page/enterprise-cloud/topics/aae-client/attended-automation/add-hot-key-trigger.html

If suggestion is helpful please mark as best answer

Thank you,

Ganesh

Thanks for the suggestions! Implementing a hotkey trigger sounds like a useful workaround for running the bot. I’ll give it a try and look into the control room login activation. Appreciate the help!

The other option would be to use an API call to the Bot Deploy API to trigger the bot from a script. One caveat, IIRC this works only if the bot is checked into Public.

https://<your Control Room URL>.digital/swagger/