The Robot View is located at the top of the Robot Editor under the tabs. The Robot view shows you the robot program: the steps and connections that make up the robot. In this view you navigate the robot steps. Select a step to edit its structure such as delete, move, change, or connect steps.

Current Step

In the Robot View there is a notion called a "current step". The basic idea is that the partial robot that you are building is actually executed while you are building it. The current step marks the position in this execution and Design Studio shows the state in the Page view and the Variables view.

The current step is marked in green. Click a step to execute the robot up to that step. The selected step becomes the current step. While the robot is executing, the step you clicked is shown in yellow. When execution reaches the step, it becomes the new current step and appears in green. If execution cannot reach the clicked step (for example, an HTML page does not load), the execution stops at the valid step, which becomes the new current step. If you click a step the robot has already executed, no execution occurs, but the new step becomes the new current step. You always configure the current step in the Step View.

Current Execution Path

The Current Execution Path is the path in the robot that the execution performed to get to the current step. The robot continues on this path until it reaches a branch or an end node. The current execution path is marked by a darker color on the connections. You can change the current execution path by clicking a connection, which will result in the connection being included in the path.

Execution with No Path Restrictions

No Path Restrictions mode makes it possible to reliably reach any required step in a workflow when the execution cannot continue from the current step to the required one. This most frequently happens because of the restrictions imposed by other steps.

Select Items

To select a series of steps or connections, press and hold the Ctrl key and click the items. You can also hold down the left mouse button and drag it over the steps to select. Click anywhere outside the robot to deselect currently selected steps and connections.

When steps or connections are selected, you can apply actions to them. For example, to insert a new step, select a step and click the Insert Step After on the toolbar. You can also right-click a step or connection to select an action from a list.

Note When you right-click a step or connection, it is automatically selected.

Edit Actions

The Robot Editor lets you perform a long range of actions on steps and connections. These include standard editor actions such as copy, paste, cut and delete, and actions that affect the execution of the robot in the design view, such as changing the iteration of a loop. You can perform actions on either the current step (if no other step is selected), selected steps or selected connections. Perform an action by clicking the corresponding toolbar button or by using the context menus on the selected elements.

You can configure another step by selecting it (by Ctrl-clicking it or dragging a selection box around it) and pressing the F2 key or selecting Configure Step on the context menu.

For more information, see General Editing.