Documentation and Tutorial Update for Quick Start

[AKA-AKN]

Hi, I am currently starting to learn RPA and I am trying to learn with the documentation( https://sema4.ai/docs/automation/quickstart-guide ) provided by Sema4.ai (formerly Robocorp) but the images in it is not correct and is referring to robocorp still and the tutorials linked are also for Robocorp I am not sure if there's any for the Sema4 one. Since I am learning I would like to update and document it side by side. But even if I am not assigned for it, I would like someone to correct it to make it easier for the rest of the community to understand. Next thing is that in the RoboCorp VS code extension I think we need to update that we have shifted from there to Sema4.ai, at the time of writing it hasn't added yet.

[joshyorko]

@AKA-AKN come to me github.com/joshyorko/rcc

joshyorko/actions - open community build

https://github.com/joshyorko/robocorp_adapters_custom

https://pypi.org/project/robocorp-adapters-custom

https://github.com/joshyorko/robot-templates

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Here's the low-down: basically, if you're on Windows or Mac, the VSCode Sema4AI extension will be chad for you. But here's the catch: you cannot use Action Server in the extension unless you have Data Server running, and you cannot get Data Server unless you download Sema4AI Studio (which is super fucking cool, by the way). Studio is only available on Mac and Windows - so if you're on Linux, you're fucked. The VSCode extension will still work for other stuff, but Action Server functionality is completely locked out because they made Data Server a hard dependency. The Data Server itself is just a wrapper around MindsDB but it is SUPER CHAD - right now to my KNOWLEDGE it is in no way open source.

So here's the thing. On the docs you're gonna have a little bit of trouble, right? Go to the Sema4AI Automation endpoint. That will get you all of the Python libraries documentation. The Assistant cannot be downloaded anymore because you can't link it to Control Room - well, you can link it to Control Room, but you just can't download the Assistant anymore. You can download the Robocorp setup utility for Windows devices and that's super cool, but you can't link it to Control Room unless you have a Control Room account. I believe they're still allowing users to sign up on Robocorp Cloud - it's super cool. I would love for you to take a look; it's awesome. But if you're looking for open source RCC, which is the bread and butter behind Action Server in and of itself, as well as the Robot Framework that Robocorp built their libraries upon, I would highly suggest you check out my fork of that repo. It's pretty awesome.