Introduction to Nintex Studio

Nintex Studio is the tool with which you can create and manage automation content for Nintex Robots. Automation wizards are recorded by the RPA developer in Studio and then accessed by end users who run it on their own computers (attended automation) or by robots who run it on virtual machines (unattended automation).

Glossary

The following terms are essential to understanding Nintex RPA functionality and are used throughout this guide.

Term

Description

Business Intelligence (BI)

The handling of organizational data. BI systems are capable of retrieving data from various database, such as the Nintex Database.

RPA developer

A Nintex Studio user who creates, edits and manages Nintex automations

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

A form of process automation technology based on the notion of software robots. A robot is a software application that replicates the actions of a human being interacting with the user interface of a computer system. For example, the execution of data entry into an SAP system – or indeed a full end-to-end business process – would be a typical activity for a software robot. The robot operates on the user interface (UI) in the same way that a human would. In addition Nintex's technology can run background activities using web services, SQL queries, DLL and integration technologies (such as SAP, HTML, .NET, Excel, PDFs, emails, etc.)

Index

A number representing the position of an item in a series or array of items. In Nintex Studio, indexes are used in some advanced commands.

Nintex RPA Server

The Nintex RPA Platform is a client-server solution. Nintex robots, running on client desktops/VMs, are connected to a central server (repository) to obtain and execute automation wizards. The Nintex RPA Server is a central repository that stores all automations, collects end-user usage statistics, and manages licenses and permissions.

Catalog

A hierarchical tree of libraries, categories and automations for predefined applications

Category

A library subfolder that contains automations

Automations

Wizards and sensors listed in the catalog

Library

The top-level folder in the catalog, containing the categories that, in turn, contain automations

Sensor

A powerful guard that intervenes only when a predetermined criteria is met, as if there were a trainer watching over the user’s shoulder

Sensitive to the context on the screen and to user behavior, sensors are used to push notifications and relevant information, as well as to validate user input and block user errors.

Wizard

An intelligent pre-developed script – created using Nintex Studio, stored on the Nintex RPA Server, and run by Nintex robots

  • In the context of Nintex’s unattended automation solution, unattended robots automatically run wizards on target applications

  • In the context of Nintex’s attended automation solution, human end-users run wizards on target applications using attended robots

Robot

A lightweight client that runs wizards on target applications

  • Unattended robot: installed on a virtual machine and runs wizards with no human intervention

  • Attended robot (Nintex Assistant): installed on an end-user desktop and runs wizards on the user’s applications

In this section

The Catalog

Sensor Catalog

Creating & Recording Wizards

The Wizard Editor

Window Detection & Window Options

Object Detection

Editing Wizard Flow

Editing Wizard Steps

Core Actions

Read from Screen

Blocks

Bubbles

Credentials Vault

Usage Reports

Exporting/Importing Catalog Content

Generating Wizard Outputs