PluginIntroduction - skilchen/bots GitHub Wiki

What is a plugin?

• A plugin is a file with predefined configuration for bots. It includes routes, channels, grammars, mappings etc.
• Plugins are installed via bots-monitor-Systasks->Read plugin.
• In order to run the routes in a plugin you first have to activate the routes. There are useful plugins on the bots sourceforge site.
• Documentation for these plugins. Note: grammars for edifact and x12 are NOT plugins, and can not be installed.

For what is a bots plugin useful?

• An easy way to distribute and share edi configurations for bots.
• Learn from existing configurations
• backup your configuration.
• share your configuration with others (It would be nice if you want to share your configuration; other can use and/or learn from what you have done!).
• do another install of the same configuration.
• transfer your environment from test to production.
• Plugins are used to update to a new version of bots (only between minor versions).

Note that all bots 3.0.0 plugins are suited to use in acceptance test mode.