Applications and Directories

The robot uses the List Directory action to open an application that contains <item> nodes for each object in the directory and some core properties of that object.

• The application is static and does not update the content of the directory when it changes.

• To update the contents, your robot can either close the application and reopen it, or use the Refresh action to re-scan the directory contents.

• The List Directory action opens a new application. The action provides a required Application Name parameter to set the name attribute on the application.

• Opening and closing the applications is done asynchronously. Robots that open and close directories should wait for operations to complete or use application names to avoid finding a previous application.

  Assign different application names to applications in a robot to avoid errors.