How to make a XAML file tell its full path?

[Emerald (Emerald Koe)]

Hello,

given the project structure below, do you know how to make test.xaml tell its path with an activity inside of test.xaml w/o providing any information about the (relative) path within test.xaml?

• Project Root
  • Folder A
  • Folder B
    • Folder B1
    • Folder B2
      - test.xaml

Please, assume that the name of test.xaml is not unique in the project.

Cheers, Emerald.

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

HI @Emerald

You can use Environment.CurrentDirectory and from there you can append the relative path to it

cheers

[Emerald (Emerald Koe)]

Hi @Anil_G ,

that doesn’t help. I don’t want to append the relative path. I want that the xaml file tells me its full path without specifying any path-related information of the xaml file within the xaml file.

Best, Emerald.

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

Hi @Emerald

Please check this

Current xaml path

Just as a sidenote - Environment.CurrentDirectory (property) actually calls Directory.GetCurrentDirectory for Get, and Directory.SetCurrentDirectory for Set operation. It’s quite an interesting situation actually Either way, both will return same value and should work for this use case.

Cheers

[Emerald (Emerald Koe)]

Hi @Anil_G,

thanks but I have already seen this post. The proposed solution in this post doesn’t solve my problem. I’m working in a test automation project. Each xaml file is a test case. So, there’s is no main.xaml.

Best, Emerald.

[jeevith (Jeevith Hegde, Ph.D.)]

Hi @Emerald,

We are in the same shoes as you. This is how we find out our full path file to our test cases. It works on both Studio and all Robot types.

One condition is that the filename is unique and a duplicate does not exist in other folders of the project if so you will get multiple hits in the check (if) and the last file in the loop will be set to out_ThisFileFullPath

Hope this helps. Here is the sample file.
GetMyFullPath.xaml (10.8 KB)

[Emerald (Emerald Koe)]

Thanks, @jeevith.

Unfortunately, I am looking for a solution that doesn’t require the file name to be unique. For example, in VBA you can get the current file path and name by ThisWorkbook.FullName. I’m looking for something similar for xaml files.

Best, Emerald.

[ppr (Peter)]

had you checked these discussions?:

How to get the current running Xaml file name dynamically

Could you check with this one? Activity name GetRootActivity GetParent.1.0.5.nupkg (5.3 KB) Not sure if this is what you’d need, but tests looked good yesterday. Based on this and modified a little. Don’t mind the package/activity name, I was actually trying to do something else and ended up with getting the xaml name… happens

and also here

[Emerald (Emerald Koe)]

Thanks, @ppr.

Yes, I have read this post.

Its solution only gives the name of the current xaml file but not its path.

Best, Emerald.

[ppr (Peter)]

dive more into the details and check more when they are talking about context, location…

[Emerald (Emerald Koe)]

I checked the post.

It’s not solving my problem.

Did I miss something?

If so, please tell me.

Best, Emerald.

[jeevith (Jeevith Hegde, Ph.D.)]

Hi @ppr,

I have tried every single suggestion from this thread before. The Last reply from @rpamania is the easiest way to get the current workflow name. But it returns only the file name not the relative path. But then @Emerald does not want to add relative path or do any checks with file names as I suggested above.

@ppr

had you checked these discussions?:

Sadly none of those approaches will work here.

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The only place I found some hope is in this suggested solution :

Get xaml directory path at design time

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PoweShell?

I also tried PowerShell, but UiPath executor (project.json location) takes precedence

Also these suggested solutions in the link below only return the project.json path (UiPath executor dictates this) and not the workflow running. c# - how to get current application path in wpf - Stack Overflow

We therefore concluded that the suggested solution noted above is the way to go for now. With one limitation that we cannot have duplicate file names.

[Emerald (Emerald Koe)]

Thanks, @jeevith.

Yes, invoking PowerShell was also one of my desperate attempts.

Best, Emerald.

[Emerald (Emerald Koe)]

It’s solved.

The solution has been shared here.

Best, Emerald.