Summary: Hello World

It’s often the first, but it also works as the last.

Let’s summarize from the very beginning, how to build and execute a minimal dummy BPMN process where Zeebe is used to orchestrate Robot Framework.

../_images/hello-world.svg — It’s the time for Hello World!

Process: `hello-world.bpmn`
Robot: `hello-world.zip`

Start Camunda Modeler

Camunda Modeler desktop icon

Choose Camunda 8 BPMN

Draw minimal process flow

Configure the service task

Deploy model definition

The playground Zeebe matches Camunda Platform 8 Self-Managed with Cluster endpoint http://localhost:26500 and Authentication: None.

Start new process instance

Open Zeebe Play

l Zeebe Play desktop icon

Choose deployments

Choose your deployment

Choose the started instance

See how task is waiting

Open Robocorp Code

Robocorp Code desktop icon

On the first run, wait…

Create new robot

Choose standard template

Confirm children in workspace

Give robot a name

Align robot.yml with BPMN

Update tasks: to have a task with your service task definition type Hello World and map it to the default task in the standard template in its tasks.robot with robotTaskName: Minimal task.

tasks:
  # Task names here are used when executing the bots, so renaming these is recommended.
  Hello World:
    robotTaskName: Minimal task

condaConfigFile: conda.yaml

environmentConfigs:
  - environment_windows_amd64_freeze.yaml
  - environment_linux_amd64_freeze.yaml
  - environment_darwin_amd64_freeze.yaml
  - conda.yaml

artifactsDir: output  

PATH:
  - .
PYTHONPATH:
  - .

ignoreFiles:
  - .gitignore

# For more details on the format and content:

# https://github.com/robocorp/rcc/blob/master/docs/recipes.md#what-is-in-robotyaml

Wrap robot

With Open Robot Terminal and typing wrap, the playground alias for rcc robot wrap.

Start RCC

RCC integration desktop icon

Watch RCC warming up

Watch RCC working

Open the log file link

Return to Zeebe Play

That’s all! It’s time to congratulate yourself!