When an error is handled, it is possible to report it back to the caller of the robot, or to log it. In both cases, a message is included that briefly describes the error, together with a location and location code for the step that encountered the error.

The location of the step that encountered the error is the list of steps (including iteration numbers) necessary to execute to reach that step from the first step. Consider the following robot.

If Step C reports an error on the second iteration of Step B, the location is written as: "step A - step B[2] - step C." Note that the location contains the step names and iteration numbers, separated by hyphens. Branch points are omitted.

The location code is similar to the location, but the name of each step is replaced by a unique identifier for that step, thereby avoiding name clashes. For the preceding location example, the location code may be: {a-i1-a}. Use the location code in Design Studio to go directly to the step that reported the error (using Go To Location on the Edit menu).