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- Getting Started
- Before You Begin
- How To
- Build Your First App
- Build a Mobile-friendly App
- Embed Apps
- Embed Maps
- General User Experience Guidelines
- Hide Containers Using a Button
- 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
- Use the Send Interim Result Activity
- Set External Context
- Work With Data Source and Value Bind
- 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
Set External Context
LEGACY
Legacy Apps User Guide for Automation Suite
Last updated Jan 18, 2024
Set External Context
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.
- Open your already existing application or start a new one.
- Create two new app variables,
FirstName
andLastName
. - Add two new Texbox controls to your app and bind the variables created at step 2 to each textbox. Bind the
FirstName
variable to the first textbox, and theLastName
variable to the second textbox. - Publish the app.
- Go to the ⚙️ App Settings window.
-
Copy the Production URL of your app.
- 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
.