Trigger UI flow unattended from Scheduled flow on Windows Server 2016

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Greetings. I am stumped on something and wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction.

I have a UI flow that works fine (logins to a website and downloads data) when I trigger it manually.
I want to use a Scheduled flow to run it unattended.
However, it fails due to the computer having another user session running.
The computer I work on is Windows Server 2016 - which is always on for other reasons.

Grateful for any pointers ...

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When you run the flow as an attended flow manually are you on the Windows Server 2016 machine or your workstation? If you developed the flow on your workstation make sure that the Selenium IDE is installed on the server and that the browser is the same version and settings.

Make sure you log out of the Windows Server with the account you used to make the attended UI Flow. UI Flow can't run unattended if the user account for the flow already has a session open on the Windows server.

If you have more than 2 users logged in to the Windows Server make sure you enable Remote Desktop services on the server and add the user for the UI flow to RDS.

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Pstork1 thanks.

I usually never sign-out of Windows Server 2016 - I just close the Remote Desktop Connection. I have some Task Scheduler and VBA processes that (I believe) require this... It seems then like I can't use Scheduled Flow + UI Flow unattended given this?

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You should still be able to use UI flow, but you are going to have to use a different user account to provide the security context for the flow. This is a known issue if you want to run multiple UI flows in parallel.

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Thanks - sound good. Does that mean I just ask IT for a second login and use that for unattended work?

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That would work, but shouldn't be necessary. I need to do some more research to see how you establish a different user session for the BOT running the unattended flow.

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Thank you - I'd be very curious to know what you discover ... in the meantime I will get on to IT!

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