Terminology

The following explains the terms related to the BrityWorks Server.

Term

Description

RPA

Robotic Process Automation. A technology utilizing automated software programs operated with an integrated AI, which is designed to quickly process simple, repetitive tasks.

Designer

A software program to design and run automation scenarios.

Bot

A software program that runs scheduled automation scenarios (jobs) in a local PC environment.

Orchestrator

The Orchestrator server ensures reliable remote operation of bot monitoring, Job execution report management, and Job schedule management.

Activity

Unit of features provided by the Designer libraries.

Headless

"Headless" refers to processes that are operated without user interface.

ProcessFlow

ProcessFlows allow users to remotely access processes on the server by designing the logic between processes with Designer.

PROJ

File extension for the Brity RPA projects.

Library

Collection of activities (functions) to perform various actions.

Process

A unit of automation scenario to execute a task at once.

Task

A module of a process that can be operated.

Shared task

A unit of task performed by importing tasks distributed to the Orchestrator server, which functions as a module of an automation scenario.

Custom library

A feature to allow users to refer to and utilize external libraries, including JavaScript, MS Workflow Activity, and MS .NET Library.

Resource

Project files, such as documents and images, which are stored at specified paths. Users can access them to operate their processes.

OCR

Optical Character Reader. This technology allows you to read document images and convert them into text strings.

FlowControl

A library of activity cards to control data flow to allow processes that match the conditions to be performed.

ImageRecognition

A library of activity cards that allow users to select and recognize image objects for utilization.

Target

Refers to the target objects that can be selected on the screen.

WebDriver

An open source tool to automatically test web apps by utilizing the ChromeDriver. The WebDriver feature is currently available only in Chrome.

Remote process

A type of process operated in a Process Flow, which involves operation of processes that are distributed to the Orchestrator server, via the CallProcess activity card.

Event

Users can create and use common events for errors during process operations.

XPath

XML Path Language. XPath uses path expressions to specify the nodes in an XML document.

CSS Selector

An indicator to apply the CSS styles to Html tags. Singular and multiple tags can be defined.

Hierarchy

An application class structure written in XML.

Seleninum

A web driver which supports web scraping, or web crawling, to automatically browse the web and collect information. Brity RPA uses ChromeDriver to perform web scraping on the Chrome browser.