Entities Page

What are Entities?

Entities are groups of data that compose a meaningful object inside OpenCore - i.e., a workflow, a workflow instance, a user, etc. These groups of data are stored as Documents inside Collections in MongoDB. Collections are analogous to tables in relational databases. Think of an Entity as a row inside a relational table. In layman terms, a Collection would correspond to a category inside your phonebook and an Entity would correspond to a single entry. Please check below for more on Collections, Collections.

In OpenCore, these Collections are grouped by their name inside the Entities page. Currently, there exist 10 groups, listed below.

Collections

Collections are groups of documents in MongoDB, analogous to tables in relational databases. Collections do not require documents to have the same schema. However, it is possible to enforce that the collection only accepts a certain type of document (document’s properties). This process is called Schema Validation.

For a comprehensive account on MongoDB Collections, please refer to the official MongoDB webpage (https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/databases-and-collections/).

below is a list of the default collections, you can always create more collections as needed.

agents

All agents objects and Package metadata (the actual package is stored in the Files collection) are saved here. Note you cannot delete agents or packages here, you need to use the Agents page for that.

audit

This collection contains data on all authentication and orchestration actions attempts inside OpenCore.

config

Contains all configuration objects releated to OpenCore. This includes, but is not limited to Federation Providers, Client Authentication Providers and Resource Broker and the Base Configuration

openrpa

All objects pertaining to OpenRPA are found in this collection. Projects, Workflows, Detectors and Credentials are saved here.

openrpa_instances

Here lie all instances of workflows invoked through OpenRPA. Each instance will record the start, end time, status and while running it will also contain all variables and workflow information, need to re resume a workflow in case the Windows Machine with OpenRPA restarts while the workflow is running.

entities

This collection contains all objects serialized into OpenCore by using the OpenRPA.OpenFlowDB activities.

users

This collection contains all users and roles automatically created by Node-RED or through OpenCore itself.

workflow

This collection contains all queues created from Node-RED’s workflow in nodes.

workflow_instances

Here lie all instances of workflows invoked through the Workflows page (http://app.openiap.io/#/Workflows).

forms

This collection holds all Forms created inside OpenCore.

nodered

Lists config variables for Node-RED.

Usages

The user can make use of the OpenRPA.OpenFlowDB activities to query these entities and manipulate them accordingly.