Not able to loop for multiple files in a folder

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Hi,
I am new to UI Path and am trying to build the following:

  • I have a no of xml files in a folder on desktop.
  • I want to upload each of these files to the xml converter page in browser
  • (optional) move the files uploaded each time to another folder on desktop

But When I try to build the program in UI Studio using foreach file in folder function it either keeps repeating the same file (first file) and when I used the Direction.getfile(str) where str is “path”. It keeps giving error of below. I tried everything converting to array of string, object etc but nothing is working. I have about 1000 files to be converted and the browser doesnt accept more than 1 file at a time. Can you please help.

Error: BC30512: Option Strict On disallows implicit conversions from ‘Object’ to ‘String’. The selected value is incompatible with the property type. Main.xaml

Error: Value of type ‘FileInfo’ cannot be converted to ‘String’. The selected value is incompatible with the property type. Main.xaml

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Thanks in advance.

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Hi @shazia

you don’t need to use the Directory method, you should just provide the path of the folder that contains the files, in your case strPath

Regards

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Just put the path to the folder in the “In folder” property of For Each File in Folder. It gets the list of files itself.

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Inside the In Folder only need to have the StrPath

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Thanks all. I tried putting the path in strPath with strPath as a array with type string but that didn’t work. Directly putting the path atleast didn’t give me any errors. But I still got teh following issues:

  • it kept opening my download folder rather than the folder I was putting the link for.
  • Also, it kept selecting the first file repeatedly instead of moving on to the next file in the folder?
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StrPath shouldn’t be an array with type String, but just a String representing your path.

Regarding your other issues:

  • What part of the workflow is opening the download folder? If there’s a popup opening for a file selection, you might probably have to type the address of the desired folder. Do you have this step in your workflow?
  • Can you show us the selector you’re using the select the file?