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We are planning to purchase an RPA-hosted machine license in addition to the process plan since we don't want to dedicate an additional machine or manage another VM. But from the documentation, I can only the creator of the machine will be able to log in to the system. How can I handle this scenario if have multiple developers working on the flow?

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    Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    If you have multiple developers, they should have their own environments for working on the flows. They will not be able to work on a single machine at the same time anyway, as it will act as a single VM for a single user agent. They should have their workstations or VMs with a DEV environment where they can work. They shouldn't use a production machine for development and testing as that is bad practice, and it won't work anyway for support and maintenance after deployment.

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    @AgniusThanks. Got your point. So if I have 2 developers working on should I have to buy 2 premium licenses or one process license would be enough?. Because i can see from the documentation "If a flow has a Process license, it doesn't require any user to have a license. It provides an organization with the flexibility to pay for licenses based on the number of flows"

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    Well, if you've only got a single flow, then you don't need the Premium licenses for the developers. But they won't be able to run the flow attended on their TEST/DEV environments, because the Process license does not include attended flow runs.

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    Doesn't the process license can run multiple flows? I saw a limit of 600. Can you suggest the type of licenses I need to purchase since the documentation is not clear on this. I have multiple devs working on a flow there could be multiple subflows also i need a hosted machine to run the flow.If i only purcahse a hosted RPA will that be enough?.Any help will be much appreciated

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    It supports multiple desktop flows, but only a single cloud flow. So, if it's a single sequence in a single cloud flow that calls several desktop flows, you should be good to go.

     

    Also, the hosted RPA license does presumably include the Process license, so you do not need to buy an extra license.

     

    I would suggest getting the Premium licenses for your developer seats, so they can actually run attended flows to test the stuff they build. That, or get some Developer environments for them, where they can play around with premium features without having licenses. But then they won't really be able to work together.

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    @Agnius Thats where am having doubt if hosted rpa includes a process license do i have to buy premium license seprately since process license can be used for org wide development.Also what you meant by dev environment?Thanks 

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    Hosted RPA includes a single machine and a Process license. Access to the machine is limited and not necessarily granted to each developer.

     

    Also, a recommended way of working with unattended flows is doing development and testing on a separate machine from the one where the flows will actually run. This is especially important when you want to make changes to a flow that is already deployed, or if you want to add additional flows. In order to not interfere with flows in production, you should separate development and testing from production. The absolutely ideal way would be having at least three environments (machines) - one for development, one for testing and one for production. But the bare minimum is to have at least one for dev+test and one for prod.

     

    These can also be on the developer workstations, if you don't want extra VMs, assuming they can mimic the same software setup as what you'd be getting on the prod VM. The version of Windows is something that is not absolutely important, but your developers should at least have access to all of the software clients that you'll be automating, as well as any network locations, databases, etc.

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    As such, I would suggest having Premium licenses for your developers, or else they will not really be able to run tests on your flows in attended mode (the Process license does not include that).

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