Projects

When working in Design Studio, you can have any number of projects open at any time. The purpose of a project is to provide a scope for a set of robots and the files required by these robots. Typically, you create a project for each separate usage of robots, such as one project for each application in your company that uses robots. Two projects cannot share files; a type always belongs to one project, and the scope of a type is the project it belongs to.

A project is a folder located anywhere in the file system. The project folder can have any name you want, but must contain the Library sub-folder.

Shared Project

Shared project is a project that is deployed on a Management Console and connected to a project on your local Design Studio computer. Management Console project can be shared between several Design Studios, thus several people can edit a project. When your shared project is out of sync with the project on the Management Console, the Management Console section in the My Projects pane visualizes the status of each object in the project. You can use different strategies when synchronizing your local copy with one deployed on the Management Console.

In Design Studio, to execute Robots that use project scoped Management Console services, such as Robot File System, TotalAgility, Vault, constants, or OAuth, place your Robots in the shared project.