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Learning Robotic Process Automation

You're reading from   Learning Robotic Process Automation Create Software robots and automate business processes with the leading RPA tool – UiPath

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788470940
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alok Mani Tripathi Alok Mani Tripathi
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Preface 1. What is Robotic Process Automation? FREE CHAPTER 2. Record and Play 3. Sequence, Flowchart, and Control Flow 4. Data Manipulation 5. Taking Control of the Controls 6. Tame that Application with Plugins and Extensions 7. Handling User Events and Assistant Bots 8. Exception Handling, Debugging, and Logging 9. Managing and Maintaining the Code 10. Deploying and Maintaining the Bot 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using config files and examples of a config file

When it comes to configuration, UiPath does not have any pre-built configuration file such as Visual Studio, but we can create one. It is considered to be one of the best practices to keep environment settings in a config file so that they can be easily changed by the user when required. Thus, when we create a project, the project.json file that holds all the activities is created automatically. Project.json can be found in the folder where the project is saved. To access the folder, we can just open the Project, then copy the path (as shown in the following screenshot), and paste it into File Explorer:

Then you can see a project.json file in File Explorer like the one shown in the following screenshot:

The following screenshot displays the code inside the project.json file, when you open that file in Notepad:

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