- Getting Started
- Before You Begin
- How To
- Build Your First App
- Build a Mobile-friendly App
- Embed Apps
- Embed Maps
- Include Excel Charts in Apps
- Include MailTo Links
- Include Star Ratings
- Use Count With Choice Set Values
- Use Document Viewer
- Use Master Detail View
- Use Selected Values From a Table
- Set External Context
- Work With Data Source and Value Bind
- General User Experience Guidelines
- Use the Send Interim Result Activity
- Notifications
- Designing your App
- Events and Rules
- Rule: If-Then-Else
- Rule: Open a Page
- Rule: Open URL
- Rule: Close Pop-Over/Bottom Sheet
- Rule: Show Message
- Rule: Show/Hide Spinner
- Rule: Set Values
- Rule: Start Process
- Rule: Upload File to Storage Bucket
- Rule: Get File From Storage Bucket
- Rule: Reset Values
- Rule: Create/Update Entity Record
- Rule: Delete Entity Record
- Rule: Add to Queue
- Function: And, Or, Not
- Function: Concat
- Function: Contains
- Function: Count
- Function: EndsWith
- Function: If
- Function: IsBlank
- Function: Guid
- Function: Length
- Function: List
- Function: StartsWith
- Function: Sum
- Function: Sort
- Function: Now
- Function: Today
- Function: Time
- Function: Year
- Function: Month
- Function: Day
- Function: Hour
- Function: Minute
- Function: New
- Function: Lookup
- Function: Filter
- Leveraging RPA in your App
- Leveraging Entities in Your App
- Leveraging Queues in Your App
- Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
- Basic Troubleshooting Guide
Introduction
You can set up an external context when launching your application. This is especially helpful when starting an app from somewhere else, for example a robotic process automation (RPA) process.
For example, you can set the values for two variables when the application loads. To do this, follow the procedure below.
Procedure
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Open your already existing application or start a new one.
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Create two new app variables,
FirstNameandLastName. -
Add two new Texbox controls to your app and bind the variables created at step 2 to each textbox. Bind the
FirstNamevariable to the first textbox, and theLastNamevariable to the second textbox. -
Publish the app.
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Go to the ⚙️ App Settings window.
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Copy the Production URL of your app.
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Paste the production URL in your browser and add the following at the end:
/?FirstName=John&LastName=Doe. In the end, the URL should have the following syntax:https://cloud.uipath.com/apps_/default/run/default/?FirstName=John&LastName=Doe.