How to open a folder in local computer by robot?

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Hi All,

I want to open a folder which is located in local computer.How can we do that?

Lets say I want to give the folder path (C:\Users\Tom\Documents\UiPath\BlankProcess) to the robot and robot should open the file which is redirecting to the given path.

Appreciate your support on this.

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Use For each Activity…
For each Item Provide folder Path Like
Directory.GetFiles(“Path”)

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@SachiniJ Why do you want to open the Folder ? Are you performing any operations after the Folder is Open or Do you want only to Open the Folder ?

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Hi @supermanPunch ,

I want to open a folder and get names of existing folders inside that

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@SachiniJ Then you don’t actually need to open the Folder, You can use this in an Assign Activity to get the Folder names inside a Folder :

strArray = Directory.GetDirectories(yourFolderPath)

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hi @supermanPunch,

Used this now and now I’m getting absolute path of the folders.But I need only the folder names. Do you have any idea how can we archive this?

Cheers!!!

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@SachiniJ Can you tell me the Operations that you are performing now?
You might just need to use a Split Method for the full path Folder names that you get.

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@supermanPunch

Inside the folder I want to get all the names of folders which are existing.
Folder name format will be ‘’.
I need to get the folder name which is having closest future date to the current date.

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@SachiniJ The Folder name Format is Not Clear :sweat_smile:

Assuming you are using a For Each Loop to get the Folder Path names inside of the Folder.

Try using this Statement inside a Message Box inside the For Each Loop :

Split(folderPath,“")(Split(folderPath,”").Count-1).ToString

This hould give you only the Folder Name

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@supermanPunch Sorry for that :slight_smile:

Folder name format will be as below.

‘2020-02-12_Invoices’ .

Ok, I will look into your solution . Thanks in advance

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