Triggers and State Machines

[Foxtrek_64 (Devin Duanne)]

Hi all,

How do you use a trigger with a state machine? Attempting to do so renders an error that triggers are not allowed inside a state machine, but this raises the question about what the trigger slot is for if not triggers.

Using a trigger scope within the trigger slot does not create this error, but I have not attempted to run code in this state. It also appears you can use an invoke workflow activity targeting an activity containing a trigger here, but I have also not tried this.

What I’d like is that if a certain condition is triggered, the state machine would use that branch.

As a bonus question, can this be treated like an interrupt, similarly to if a user were to press CTRL+C in a console app? In some situations, I would like the branch to be taken immediately, even if the State hasn’t completed its block of code yet.

[mukesh.singh]

Pls, read the tooltips it has the issue details.

StateMachine understanding, weird behavior of trigger executed twice

Hi sre, I also stumbled on this issue. It seems like UiPath transitions are being checked in order for a trigger. The fix for me was to make the condition unique. So if you have a retry int variable, construct both conditions to check that value. Otherwise if the first transition complies with that condition, it will continue that path. So like ValeriiaProtsko said, check the logic in the conditions. I created a variable with a retry count and a variable to save the exception message. If the r…

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[Foxtrek_64 (Devin Duanne)]

I was able to sort of put together an answer based on this video.

It seems my confusion was the result of a name collision. Triggers in transitions are not the same thing as Triggers which react to events.

It also seems I was able to indirectly answer my question - I cannot have a UiPath State Machine transition based on a trigger.