How to modify activities in debug mode?

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Hello friends,

Wanted to change/Add activities in the workflow during debug mode…

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Hi
Welcome to uipath community
Debug mode is another mode on execution like compiling
Still we can add activities to the workflow and run in debug mode

For more info

Cheers @saransr

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Hi Friend,

If i executed the workflow in debug mode…the activities/properties panels are freezed,so don’t have chance to add new activities in to our workflow and can’t edit the properties as well.

Please help…

Thanks in advance.

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Yah while executing in debug mode the workflow will become READ ONLY mode
So before running them in debug mode you will be able to add or modify the activities in the file

Or
If that xaml is opened from a ZIP folder make sure that you have extracted all the files from that zip folder and then open the xaml file else it will be in read only mode

Cheers @saransr

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In short, you cannot modify/add any activity nor edit any properties when in debug mode

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Oh
Did I misunderstood the query
Debug mode is a way of execution right
@nadim.warsi

Kindly correct me if I m wrong
Cheers @nadim.warsi

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Yea, but the user wants to add activity during debug mode which i dont think is possible.
After stopping the debug mode you can which is normal.

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Yah that’s what I was wondering, because
It’s just a state or like compiling a workflow lively

So before or after running/ excuting a workflow in DEBUG MODE we will able to add activities

Even in normal mode when the workflow is executing we won’t be able to add or modify activities
Only before or after execution we will be able to add or modify activities
Same applies for debug mode

@saransr @nadim.warsi

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Thank You @Palaniyappan

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Cheers @saransr

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Hi @Palaniyappan,

Could you please explain further what are the differences among “Run File”, “Debug” and “Run” shown below?
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I did a comparison by running a simple do-while loop from 1 to 1000 and found that both “Run File” and “Run” can complete less than 0.1 second while “Debug” may take more than 2 minutes.

Thanks.

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Hi I am experiencing the same. Currently busy with Uipath Developer Foundation - Debugging and the exercise requires me to highlight elements in debug mode however it’s greyed out.

Any reason why this could be?

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Ahhh BluePrism is better for this!!

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Like that The Locals Panel

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Apart from the usefulness of being able to modify activity properties “on the fly” while in a debugging session, something that is possible in many IDEs / programming languages (for instance: in Java with IntelliJ as long as you don’t add new classes/methods or change signatures; PHP by merely re-running the script because it’s an interpreted language), or at least the ability to change values to the variables “on the fly” (or parameter values for functions/workflows), as a very, VERY BARE MINIMUM the Properties tab should still be available at least in read mode. Nevertheless, it gets “hidden” from its proper location while debugging, having to explicitly click on the “Properties” tab each time, and it’s a pity that the drop-down menus and the values in the input text are not READABLE. I could understand, to some extent, not allowing to change the values, but at least LET ME READ IT. It slows down and further complicates the debugging process. Having to finish the debugging session in the middle of a long sequence, after waited long to reach that certain point in the code, and then forcing you to stop the execution to be able to READ a value from the disabled properties window is crazy.

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This would be useful if it weren’t because the format is different to that used in the Properties panel, and many times I’ve given up trying to find that input parameter which consist of a collection or a list of arguments in the form of a key/value pair and blah. Trying to locate things in such a maremagnum panel, with lots of information and lots of deeper inner levels its a headache. But at least it shows that, if the values are already “available” to UiPath Studio, it should be able for it to fill in the values in the Properties panel and let the user to read the values from there, albeit not to modify them if the staff don’t want to allow to modify them / don’t know how to do it.

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if we compare ‘Blueprism’ and ‘UiPath’, so in Blueprim can modifiy and add activities during in dubug mode, while in ‘UiPath’ inshort cannot modify/ add activity during run.

the right final word is UiPath don’t support edit/modifiy in Debug Mode.

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