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Can I Export a Bot From A2019 Community Edition?

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    Anonymous
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    Title says it all.  Is it possible get our bots out of Community Edition?  If we went through training on the free CE & created a bunch of bots, we’d like to move them to our company’s control room when it’s stood up.  Possible?

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    Anonymous
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    You definitely can’t do it the traditional way, through the user interface.  There’s an article that Automation Anywhere published that says it’s possible, but it doesn’t work for me, so tread carefully.

    From the article (emphasis mine):

    With the Bot Import/Export feature, Enterprise users are now able to execute export/import functionality via API. This is key for continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline integration. Users are also able to import bots into Test/Prod environments without bot editor licenses in these environments.

    Note: This also allows Community Edition users the ability to export bots so they can be imported into their Enterprise environments (see Figure 2).

    I’ve recently tried the Bot Lifecycyle Management APIs & export functionality didn’t work.  Here’s what I discovered:

    • /v1/authentication API worked fine & returned an auth token.
    • /v2/repository/workspaces/private/files/list API worked fine & returned a list of all of my private files (not that you need to follow AA’s guide for exporting bots & use this call – you can get your file ID’s by hovering over them in the Control Room & looking at the URL)
    • /v2/blm/export API failed.  As a Community Edition user, I had insufficient permissions to export my bot.

    Here’s the returned JSON from the export API call:

    {
    “code”: “blm.insufficient.permission.repositorymanager.export”,
    “correctiveAction”: “To continue, please contact your system administrator.”,
    “details”: “”,
    “message”: “You do not have required permissions”
    }

    Even though it didn’t work for me with my plain old Community Edition account, this may be something Automation Anywhere can unlock on a case-by-case basis.  You can always talk to your sales rep & see if they can get you the proper permissions.  I’ve always found them to be very good about working with clients.

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