Design

Select the Design tab to configure settings found in Home (Studio Backstage View) > Settings > Design.

• To govern a setting, select the check box or toggle next to it.
• To allow Studio users to edit a setting, select Allow users to override. This makes the setting from the policy the default, but allows users to change it. By default, overriding in Studio is not allowed.

Save and Publish

• Enforce Analyzer before Publish - Select Yes to prohibit publishing projects with Workflow Analyzer errors.
• Enforce Analyzer before Run - Select Yes to prohibit running and debugging files or projects with Workflow Analyzer errors.
• Analyze RPA XAML Files Only - Select Yes to exclude XAML files with test cases from analysis when running the Workflow Analyzer for a project. This setting applies when the analyzer is triggered manually, as well as when it is enforced and triggered automatically before running/debugging a project and publishing test cases or a project.
• Enforce Check-In before Publish - Select Yes to restrict publishing projects added to source control repositories when they have local changes.
• Use “Smart File Paths” (For StudioX policies only) - Select Yes to enable the use of relative paths instead of absolute paths for file locations from the user profile folder so they work when shared with other users.
• Enable AI activity suggestions (For Studio X policies only) - Select Yes to enable AI activity suggestions in the Add activity search bar. If this option is enabled, when the activity search bar opens, Studio sends information about the current context to a UiPath® AI service that suggests activities to add based on the location in the workflow from which the search bar was opened.
• Export Analyzer results (For Studio policies only) - Select Yes to export the results of each workflow analysis to a JSON file in the project folder.
• Enforce Release Notes (For Studio policies only) - Select Yes to make the Release Notes field mandatory when publishing a project.

Note: The Enable AI activity suggestions,Export Analyzer results, and Enforce Release Notes settings are available starting with the 21.10.0 policy template version.

Design Style

• Default language - Select the default language to use for expressions in new projects (VisualBasic or C#). Users can select a different language than the default when creating a new project.

  In Studio versions prior to 2021.10, this setting applies only to the Studio Pro profile. In Studio 2021.10 and later versions, this setting applies only to the Studio profile.

• Create docked annotations - Select the default way in which annotations are added to activities: Select Yes for docked inside the activity, or No for floating next to the activity.
• Use Modern for new projects - Select Yes to enable a modern experience of working with UI Automation for new projects, with new and improved activities, recorders, and wizards. For more information, see Modern Design Experience.
• Slim View for Collapsed Activities - Select Yes to reduce the space collapsed activities take up by enabling a view that only displays the title bar.
• Default compatibility - Select the default target framework to use when creating a project in the Studio profile: Windows - Legacy, Windows, or Cross-platform.
• Allowed compatibility frameworks - Select the target frameworks that are allowed when when creating or opening a project in the Studio profile: Windows - Legacy, Windows, or Cross-platform.
• Connections service for new projects - Select Yes to use the Integration service in Automation Cloud as the default way to manage connections in all activities that support it. When enabled, the activities in the GSuite, Mail. and Office 365 packages that support this feature default to using Integration service connections for authentication.

Note: The Default compatibility and Allowed compatibility frameworks settings are available starting with the 21.10.0 policy template version.