Stopping the Process

There are two ways to tell the Mates not to work in a Process - using Stop Process or blocking a day in the Calendar.

Stopping the Process is a feature that only applies to the Mates. Ofcourse, it is great if the employees respect it as well but there is nothing built in to Anymate that would stop an employee from solving a Task or otherwise interacting with a Process/Task. In other words, we believe that the employees are the experts and they know best if a Task should be updated one way or another.

The exception to Stopping the Process is if a software automation is set to run with StartRun and FinishRun, without checking OkToRun first, then we assume this is done on purpose and will not do anything to stop that from happening. In other words, Anymate is here to serve your automation, making things easy and flexibile for you. Stopping the Process is a tool to help control your software automation, but if you have a Mate where you don't want the business (or anyone) being able to stop it then by all means - it is fine with us.

Stop Process

By clicking Stop Process in the overview, the process gate will be closed. This will be indicated in the response from OkToRun endpoint, and it will also be visible in the Overview. When the gate is closed, TakeNext will behave as if there is no tasks in the queue and OkToRun will be false.

Date Blocked

In the Calendar section of Process Settings, it is possible to block out dates. This works similar to Stop Process, but is a planned stop. Once the date has passed, the process wil be resumed again automatically and continue with business as usual.

Use the calendar to schedule holidays

The Calendar is a easy way to let the business schedule in holidays themselves. For instance, a bank has bank holidays where they do not conduct business. In other situations, a team can have planned 2 weeks of summer holidays where no one is in the office, and they don't want the robots to be running with no one to oversee them. O