i noticed something that surprised me very much. I have programmed a password generator via Uipath-Studio, which generates a password according to certain criteria (at least 10 characters, max 20 characters, which contains at least one lowercase letter, one uppercase letter and at least one special character or number.
I did it in such a way that at the beginning there was a request as to whether you would like to reassign a password manually or to generate a new one. Everything has been done so far and is running correctly through the studio. To check the generated passwords, I put the sequence in an endless loop to see what the generated passwords look like. The following is output to me when I start / run the project via the studio:
Alright so far. The password is then stored in a text file.
Then i published the project and ran it through the robot. Strangely, the passwords stored in the text file look like this:
xX:.yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
rR)TTTTTTTTTTTTTT
kK!JJJJJJJJJJJ
fF5sssssssss
sS)!!!
tT?%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
and so on…
As you can see, the characters from the 3rd or 4th digit are always the same. I wonder why the robot works differently or outputs something different than when i open the process via the studio? This is not a coincidence and not normal
Did you have such a case or do you know the reason for the different spending behavior?
I’m assuming you’re using new Random() to pick a random value from somehere?
Let’s preface this answer by saying that it’s usually not the best idea to build a password generator that relies on unsecure random fuctions, you should use this:
One possible reason for you repeating passwords might be, that a lot of random functions simply use the current time as the seed, which means that if you execute the function several times within a millisecond, you’ll get the same result.
As the robot is executing the compiled workflow it’s much faster than your studio execution.
If this is actually the problem (which I’m not 100% sure of) you could either try using the RandomNumberGenerator or use Random.next if you not already do.
For a more detailled answer I’d need to see your code.
If this has helped you, please mark this answer as the solution.
One of my lists contains 89 signs. If the robot collected the first 3 signs into the Final-Collection, it continues with the do-while section, until the list contains x values. Is the code not logically correct?
When we are assuming how you said, it is a time problem, can we code a time interruption for every loop, maybe 1 ms?