I’m a regular UiPath-Windows user and got a proposal to develop a standard Excel to Web App bot, but on MacOS.
It’s attended solution with 3 places where I need to put a MessageBox to allow the user to decide on the subsequent steps.
First iteration of the bot (of course I forgot to choose ‘cross-platform’ option during the process setup) works fine on Windows, but the second, this time cross-platform version, shouts about MessageBox being not compatible with MacOS projects.
What would be an alternative?
Windows.Forms are not compatible either (info from another UiPath post). Chat GPT suggested using python script, but after installing UiPath.Python.Activities I cannot find them in the activities list (I checked the filters already).
I need to simply pause the bot for let’s say 2 minutes maybe more, but also inform the user about the decision to be made.
Use the Input Dialog activity instead of MessageBox, as it is cross-platform compatible. If you only need a delay while informing the user, use Log Message or Write Line for logging and then add a Delay activity for the required time.
Use Form Designer (Modern) for interactive prompts. Use Log Message/Write Line for notifications. Use Write Text File + Read Text File for saving and retrieving decisions.
Use Send SMTP/Outlook Mail Message for email-based confirmation. Use Delay to pause execution.
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LogMessage/WriteLine are not visible for the end user of the robot during execution triggered from Assistant.
Text file / Mail - I would need to generate 1 or 3 files and 3 mails per run. I can have do while loop blocking the bot unless the file exists. it may work, but it’s not so user friendly.
Delay - if user make the decision in a second and delay is e.g. 60s, then we waste time, plus user would not know how much time is left from the delay
