Steps and Data Converters

In Design Studio, a short description is shown with each step and data converter. Click More next to the description to see additional information about the step or data converter associated with the description. You can also click help to get onscreen assistance associated with a selected step or data converter.

Several of the actions, such as Extract, can run extracted text through a list of data converters and sort the result in a variable.

See Steps for the Basic Engine Robot steps and their options.

A data converter processes extracted text based on parameters you define. For example, the Extract Number data converter accepts an input text containing a number and outputs a text containing the same number in a standardized format.

Because a data converter takes a text as input and outputs another text, data converters can be chained so that the output of one data converter becomes the input to the next data converter. The final output is the text output of the last data converter in the data converter list. For example, if the list of data converters contains the converter Convert to Upper Case, followed by a Remove Spaces data converter, the input text to the list is "R oboMa ker", is output as "ROBOMAKER".

See Data Converters for information about available data converters.