DynamicArgumentDialog - Accept Dynamic Arguments

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Hello,

I am creating a custom activity in which I need to leverage the DynamicArgumentDialog class. This is the one one that lets you specify arguments and their types in a table.

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I’ve found a few articles on doing this, but none of them seem to have any answers in them:

To compound this issue, many of the support articles linked in these threads are either dead links (wayback machine helps a bit here) or referencing code that is no longer available.

I have tried the following. Assume the [RequiredArgument] attribute for all of these, as well as a category of “Input”.

public Dictionary<string, Argument> Arguments { get; set; }: No field visible, same behavior with and without a category.
public InArgument<Dictionary<string, Argument>> Arguments { get; set; }: Field visible. Button opens a code view rather than a table.
public Collection<Variable> Arguments { get; set; }: Closest so far. Shows (Collection) in property view in UiPath, but no edit button is visible/available.

The StackOverflow article suggests using the following code:

ModelItem modelItem = this.ModelItem.Properties["Arguments"].Dictionary;
using (ModelEditingScope change = modelItem.BeginEdit("ArgumentsEditing"))
{
    if (DynamicArgumentDialog.ShowDialog(this.ModelItem, modelItem, Context, this.ModelItem.View, options))
    {
        change.Complete();
    }
    else
    {
        change.Revert();
    }
}

However, I am unsure of where to put this. Some pages seem to imply launching this as though it were a child activity, but this suggestion doesn’t appear to be actionable. According to this MSDN article, I can schedule the execution of a child activity or function, however this seems to only be enacted at runtime.

What am I missing here?

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Hello friend, did you find the solution?

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Hi Henrique,

Unfortunately I did not. As a temporary work-around, I have been accepting a Dictionary<string, object>, adding everything to it, then casting to the appropriate type on the other side.

It’s rather ungainly but it works for now.