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Launch an executable file

DavidAssouline — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 23:07:00 GMT

Hello, Could you please tell me how to launch an ".Bat" file with Blue Prism? I couldn't find that in the utility file management. Thank you, David

Hi David,…

Sambashiva_RaoT — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:17:00 GMT

Hi David, You can use the Utility - Environment, it has a start process action where you can pass the location of your Bat file as parameters. Regards Sambashiva

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DavidAssouline — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:15:00 GMT

Hi Sambashiva, Thank you very much for your message. I tried to use this command with the following parameters: Application: Filepath of my Bat file Arguments: nothing Is seems it launches the cmd asks me to ""press any key to continue"" but it doesn't execute what my .Bat file is supposed to do. Did I do something wrong? Thank you, David

Hi David,…

Sambashiva_RaoT — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:44:00 GMT

Hi David, Try to use this code in your object's code stage System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Path of Bat file); add System.Diagnostics in the import statements. Regards Sambashiva

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DavidAssouline — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:05:00 GMT

Hi Sambashiva, Thank you for your message. To be sure I understand: This is the object original parameter: ""If Arguments"""" Then System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Application, Arguments) Else System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Application) End If"" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is what I did : If Arguments"""" Then System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(""C:\myfile.bat"") Else System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Application) End If ""add System.Diagnostics in the import statements."" --> Where does this go? Thank you very much again.

Can anyone help please? I…

DavidAssouline — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 13:06:00 GMT

Can anyone help please? I just need this to finish my robot 🙂

If you are still stuck on…

JayBorden — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 02:15:00 GMT

If you are still stuck on this, you can put the full file path in both parameters of the Utility - Environment > start process action.