Design Studio

Design Studio is the application for creating robots and types. In Design Studio, you can also debug your robots and create database tables for types that need to be stored in databases.

Design Studio, an integrated development environment (IDE) for robot development, is all you need to design robots and types.

Robots are programmed in an easy-to-understand visual programming language with its own syntax (structure) and semantics (meaning). To support you in the construction of robots, Design Studio provides powerful programming features, including interactive visual programming, full debugging capabilities, an overview of the program state, and easy access to context-sensitive online help.

Design Studio also lets you create the types that are used by robot variables for data extraction and input. With Design Studio Type Editor, you can design types that are modeled after real-world data. In the most common case, a type is designed to hold the data that a robot extracts from a data source.

Organization

The Design Studio section of help is structured as follows: First, you are introduced to the essential concepts of Design Studio. Then you are taken on a tour of the user interface and provided with an overview of the core building blocks of any robot. With the basics firmly in place, we get to the tutorials that show you how to use Design Studio to create robots that do something useful. The tutorials get gradually more advanced until you are ready to create robots that perform the tasks defined by you. The tutorials are the meat and bone of this section of help and it is important that you master them before proceeding.

Before You Read On

Before you proceed, we recommend that you read Introduction to Kofax RPA, which will introduce you to Design Studio and the context it is used in, and take you through basic tutorials.

Note To access tutorials, you must have access to the Internet.

To work with Design Studio, you should have a basic understanding of programming, HTML, and JavaScript.

Other Resources

Additional information on Design Studio is available in the reference documentation.