Different results between iRPA and Build Process Automation after API call

[Ludovic_MOOS]

Hi,

I have built an automation consisting of making an API call to retrieve all the records of road traffic offences that happened in a given fleet of vehicles.

I first built it in iRPA and when I test, the request goes fine: I get 315 pages of 20 records each, and 1 page of 14 records (total of 6314 records). This is consistent with tests made in Postman which also return 315 pages of 20 records, and 1 page of 14 records.

I then exported the same project to SAP Build Process Automation (installed in another subaccount) and tested the automation: the request works well, the test session ends without error, except it only returns 2000 records (100 pages - or 100 iterations).

Do you have any idea what would cause this? Is there some kind of limitations when testing in SAP Build Process?

Let me know if you need me to go into further detail.

Thanks beforehand for your help.

Kindest regards,

LM.

[Thierry]

Hi Ludovic,

Can you send me the ticket number please ? this is a bug we need to solve

Thanks

Thierry

[Ludovic_MOOS · Accepted solution]

Obviously, I can only see 100 pages because of limits imposed by SBPA: https://help.sap.com/docs/build-process-automation/sap-build-process-automation/quotas-restrictions-...

For the output mapping, the limit per task is 100, which compels me to customize my project based on these limits. This is a drawback compared to iRPA.

For those who would face the same issue: if you want this to have a chance to be improved for your further usage, please raise a request as suggested here 0000000011 so SAP dev team considers to implement this in the future.

[Ludovic_MOOS]

@Thierry here is the ticket number: 259373/2025 Hope this can be fixed quickly. We migrate to SBPA to enjoy improved features and supposedly more convenient working practices... And this limitation is not handy at all.

Let us know when this can be solved.

Thanks.

LM.

[Thierry]

Hello @Ludovic, can you provide the IRPA project as well in the ticket. Our dev colleague cannot continue his investigation without it.

[Ludovic_MOOS]

Hi @Thierry, everything was delivered to SAP support 10 days ago.

[Thierry]

Hello Ludovic,

I think this is normal because you ran the automation in debug mode and the timeline only shows first 100 loops to save resources. But the execution went through all the results. If you log the loop index in a file, you should get everything.

Best regards,

Thierry

[Ludovic_MOOS]

Hi @Thierry , I already logged the loop index and the results are still truncated. I have also launched the job in production mode and I only get part of the results... As explained by SAP support team after submitting a ticket, the issue is the limit imposed by SBPA, which is a real drawback compared to what iRPA can do. See my post for further explanation. Thanks for your response.