process-mining
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- Before you begin
- Getting started
- Integrations
- Working with process apps
- Working with dashboards and charts
- Working with process graphs
- Working with Discover process models and Import BPMN models
- Showing or hiding the menu
- Context information
- Export
- Filters
- Sending automation ideas to UiPath® Automation Hub
- Tags
- Due dates
- Compare
- Conformance checking
- Root cause analysis
- Simulating automation potential
- Triggering an automation from a process app
- Viewing Process data
- Creating apps
- Loading data
- Customizing process apps
- Publishing Dashboards
- App templates
- Additional resources
- Out-of-the-box Tags and Due dates
- Editing data transformations in a local environment
- Setting up a local test environment
- Designing an event log
- Extending the SAP Ariba extraction tool
- Performance characteristics
Process Mining user guide
Last updated Apr 23, 2026
Configuring the extraction script
Follow these steps to configure the extraction script.
- Go to the App Templates page and open the documentation page for your app template.
- Locate the section Loading data using Theobald Xtract Universal and download the
extract_theobald_as.zipfile for your app template. Thisextract_theobald_as.zipfile contains theextract_theobald.ps1script and theconfig.jsonfile. - Unzip the content of the
extract_theobald_as.zipfile on the server where Theobald Xtract Universal is installed. - Configure the variables for the script in the
config.jsonas listed in the following table.
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
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| The Xtract Universal installation folder. This is the folder where you can find the xu.exe . For example: C:\\MyFolder. |
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| Address of the server where Xtract Universal is installed. The default is localhost . |
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| Port of the server where Xtract Universal is installed. The default port of an installation is 8065 . |
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| The API that is called to start data processing in Process Mining, once all data has been uploaded. Refer to Retrieving the SQL Server database parameters . |
extraction_start_date * | Start date to be used to limit extractions. Only tables where a date filter is applied are filtered on this date. Format is YYYYMMDD . The default is no limitation indicated by the start date 19700101 . Note:
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extraction_end_date * | End date to be used to limit extractions. Only tables where a date filter is applied are filtered on this date. Format is YYYYMMDD . The default is no limitation indicated by the end date 20991231 . Note:
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| The language in which data is extracted from the source system. The default is E . |
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| The exchange rate type that is used for currency conversion. The default is M . |
is_sap_hana | Specifies if the source system is SAP HANA. Other versions of SAP might give errors in the extraction because of clustered tables. The default value is true . |
*) To achieve a more complete overview of all events, it is recommended to set extraction_start_date and extraction_end_date so that the interval exceeds twice the known throughput time of the business process.