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Communications Mining is now part of UiPath IXP. Check the Introduction in the Overview Guide for more details.
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Communications Mining user guide

Last updated Aug 1, 2025

Understanding the data structure and permissions

Data is structured and stored in a hierarchical manner within the platform, which comprises of the following main components:
  • Data sources
  • Datasets
  • Projects
If you are an Automation Cloud user, these components are stored within one or all of your cloud tenants.
Note: Strict permissions control access to each of these components.

Data sources

These are collections of raw, unannotated communications data of a similar type, such as all emails from a shared mailbox, or a collection of NPS survey responses. For more details, check Sources. You can associate individual data sources with up to 10 different datasets.

Datasets

These are comprised of 1 to 20 data sources, of similar type with similar intended purposes, and the model that you create when you train the platform to understand the data in those sources. For more details, check Datasets.

Projects

Projects represent a permissioned storage area within the platform. Each dataset and data source belongs to a specific project, which is designated when they are created. For more details, check Projects.

Tenants (Automation Cloud users)

Tenants allow you to model your organization structure, separating your business flows, and information similae to real-life organizations. Tenants are containers where you can organize your services and manage them for a group of users.

For example, you can create tenants for each of your departments and decide what services you want to enable for each, based on their needs. In each tenant, you can have one instance of each of the cloud services.

It is important to note that you cannot promote Communications Mining™ models between different UiPath® Cloud tenants. For example, promoting from Development to Production.

If you can only deploy to Production, in a Production environment, then enable the IXP service, which includes Communications Mining, in Production. However, if you have flexibility with deploying to Production, from another environment, you can have your Production automations call the platform from the tenant it sits in, for example, Quality Assurance or Development.

Permissions

Permissions are per-user and specific to each project that a user belongs to. They can provide access to sensitive data and, depending on the permission, allow users to perform a range of different actions in the platform. For more details, check Roles and their underlying permissions.

Overview

If you are an Automation Cloud user, your IXP service, which includes Communications Mining, is enabled on a specific tenant. Tenants are where projects are stored.

Each dataset and data source is associated with a specific project, with users requiring permissions in those projects to be able to work with the data within them.

Datasets in one project can be made up of data sources from another project. Users require permissions in both projects to view and annotate the data.

The illustration depicts the relationship between these components and permissions:

  • In the illustration, with Tenant A, all of the data sources are associated with Project A1, while there are datasets associated with both Project A1 and Project A2.
  • If a user wanted to access datasets in Project A1, that is, dataset 1, 2, or 3, they would require viewing permissions for Project A1 only.
  • However, if a user wanted to access datasets in Project A2, that is, dataset 4, 5, or 6, they would require viewing permissions for both Projects A1 and A2, because the data sources are all located in Project A1.
  • To view project A1 or A2, the user would require access to Tenant A. To view project B1, the user would require access to Tenant B. The user permissions do not transfer cross-tenant.
Note: The concept of having multiple cloud tenants only applies to Automation Cloud users.



  • Data sources
  • Datasets
  • Projects
  • Tenants (Automation Cloud users)
  • Permissions
  • Overview

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