How to start any process in Invoke Power Shell?

[GabrielMoreno]

Hi all, i have one question, how i can start an Process… for example an archive in desktop?

[Pablito (Pawel Wozniak)]

Hi @GabrielMoreno,
Here you have very nice tutorial about PowerShell invoke:

How to Integrate PowerShell with UiPath- Step by Step guide

How to Integrate PowerShell with UiPath This topic is a step by step guide for integrating Powershell with Uipath. There is an ‘Invoke Powershell Activity’ available in Uipath which can be used to run the powershell scripts. For our example purpose, let us consider a simple powershell script which gives us the status of windows services on the machine. This script will have two input parameters: • ServiceState (String) – To get the status of service. For e.g. ‘Running’ , ‘Stopped’ etc • Outp…

[GabrielMoreno]

Hi @Pablito thx, but do I really need to create a script to run a simple command?

[Pablito (Pawel Wozniak)]

No. This was just example for PS script. For “oneliners” you can use only Invoke PowerShell activity.

[huston8 (Huston Lopes)]

Hi @GabrielMoreno,

I think a simple command to archive would be :

Compress-Archive -Path C:\Desktop -DestinationPath C:\Archives\Draft

However in case you want to pass the folder path as an parameter rather than hard coding, you can follow the integration steps mentioned above. You need not read the script from file, you can store it in variable or directly pass it to Invoke Powershell activity as mentioned by @Pablito .