From the course: UiPath: Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

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Assets: Consuming from a robot

Assets: Consuming from a robot

- [Instructor] In the previous lecture, we used UiPath Orchestrator's assets feature to essentially create a named centralized variable that holds a value. Let's see how we can make use of this in a robot. So back here in UiPath, I'm going to click on start and create a new blank project. As discussed in the previous video, I'm going to name this My Asset Robot and I'll just copy and paste that down here in the description and click create. I'll be talking more about how to automate web browsers in the future section, but since we've created an asset with a URL, I'll give you a quick preview of how it works here. As usual, when I start a robot, I would normally grab a tri-catch block. For now I'll just use a sequence or a flowchart. So I click and drag a sequence on and I'll just name this the whole process. To interact with a web browser, I go back to my activities and type in the word browser. Notice that we have several browser activities, but the one I'm looking for is open…

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