Installing OpenRpa

My personal quick guide on installing OpenRpa and OpenFlow

Software Required

Software	Download	Comments
Windows 10	https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10	Many Components do not work with Server 2016. Need to patch to latest level to install docker.
OpenRPA Studio	https://github.com/open-rpa/openrpa	Development tool for OpenRPA
OpenFlow	https://github.com/open-rpa/OpenFlow	Backend for OpenRPA: Node Red for Queues; Mongo Db for Database, Openflow for Workflow
SQL Express 2016	https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56840	SQL Express 2019 does not work on Windows 10. Used for Bot DB's
Docker Compose	https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/	Need this to install the docker container for Openflow into Docker after downloading from Github
Office 2013	https://www.filehorse.com/download-microsoft-office-2013-64bit/	Office 2013 does not require activation like newer versions and does the job
Visual Studio 2017 Community	https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/	Use this to develop Code and debug solutions. VS 2019 Community does not work on Windows 10 Enterprise.
Chrome Browser	https://www.google.com/chrome/	Does not come standard with Windows 10
Adobe Reader	https://get.adobe.com/reader/	Need this to work with PDF's

Installation Sequence

Task	Comment
Install Windows 10 into a Hyper-V Virtual Machine	Connect to the Internet and makes sure it is patched to the latest version. Does not need to be activated to do this.
Install SQL Express	Patch if you want too
Install .NET Framework or Visual Studio	Version 4.5 or Higher on Framework
Install Hyper-V components for Docker Desktop	Make Sure nested virtualization is activated on this VM
Install Docker Desktop	Install Sample to test that it works
Extract OpenFlow Containers to a folder. Copy Docker Compose executable into this folder	Rename traefik.yml to DockerCompose.yml
Install containers into Docker using docker compose	docker-compose up -d
Install the OpenRpa studio	Normal MSI install. Make sure you have the latest version from GitHub
Test if Openflow works in the browser	http://localhost.openrpa.dk/
Edit the Settings.json file used by OpenRpa studio and change the path to point to you local version of OpenFlow	My Documents\Open RPA\settings.json ws://localhost.openrpa.dk/

Internet research

Link	Comment
https://github.com/open-rpa/openrpa/issues/155	Information on connecting OpenRPA to OpenFlow
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope LocalMachine	Need to enable Powershell to run scripts on the machine
Set-VMProcessor -VMName <VMName> -ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true	Enabled Nested virtualization on Host
ws://localhost.openrpa.dk/	Make sure it is WS and not WSS
https://www.nuget.org/packages/System.Management.Automation	Install Powershell Assemblies for C#
docker-compose-traefik.yml is for people running docker ce/docker desktop or docker swarm docker-compose-toolbox.yml is for people running docker toolbox docker-compose.yml is for developers who don't want to install mongoDB/RabbitMQ or an easy way to run one instance while debugging the other.	Docker Containers install options: Rename docker-compose.yml to docker-compose-dev.yml Rename docker-compose-traefik.yml to docker-compose.yml Install the containers using "docker-compose up" inside a powershell ISE session

Troubleshooting

Error	Solution
Port 80 is already used by another application running Http.sys and therefore the endpoint can't start.	Need to disable Http.sys.
MS Teams Wiki Export	https://www.lance.bio/2018/09/06/microsoft-teams-wiki-export/