Hello team.
I am trying to automate process that involves downloading a PDF of a quote from an external service application site and emailing it to our company. In Robotic Task, we can specify the file in Upload Document in Robotic Task and the file will be on Appian. I believe I have to upload the document and output it to use it as a variable. However, there is a problem with the file path. It is not known what the name of the file is that PRA downloaded from an external site, and I am facing a problem that I cannot specify it in the development screen of Robotic Task. Below is what we have tried to do for this problem.
It was not acceptable for RPA to change the name of the downloaded file before downloading the file (cannot click on the item inside Explorer).
I can find out the name of the most recently downloaded file at the command prompt, but RPA cannot enter that code at the command prompt, and RPA could not read the command prompt results.
If anyone knows of a workaround, please let me know.
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Hi taikiHASHIMOTO ,
Set download directory to one particular folder everytime. Use list the contents of folder from the pallete and provide the path of the folder, you will get all the contents of the folder. In that way you can find the name of the file.
Hi Sri Ram Kaja ,
I have used the list content of folder but did not get any data if saving the data in variable.
Can you please suggest any other approach?
Do you actually need to download that file from RPA? Did you consider to pass the URL back to Appian and let it download it?
I am using the robotic task to automate the login to outlook and download the attachment for each email.Now I want to save the downloaded attachment to Appian folder.
Not sure why you want to use RPA to fetch email from Outlook. MS has great API support to do such things.
Hi taikiHASHIMOTO ,Is this issue cleared?If yes, how?If not, can you brief me about your process for the download segment.