UiPath.Core.Activities.AppendLine

Adds the specified text to a file without deleting the existing content. If it does not already exist, the file is created.

To learn how to use this activity, see Tutorial: Working with Files and Folders.

In the Body of the Activity

• Text - Click on the right side of the field and then, from the menu, choose one of the available options to indicate the text to add:
  • Text from an application added to a card or from the Excel Workspace. For example, select an Excel file and then select a cell, or indicate a field from a selected email in Outlook that contains.
  • Use Saved Value - Select text output from another activity that you previously saved for later use in the project.
  • Text - Enter text in the Text Builder.
  • Open in Advanced Editor - Enter a VB expression.
• Write to filename - Click next to the field and then browse to and select the file where to add the text. Alternatively, you can click on the right side of the field and then, from the menu, choose one of the available options to indicate the file:
  • If the activity is inside a For Each File in Folder activity, you can select Current File > Full Path to indicate the path of the file you are currently iterating through.
  • Data from an application added to a card or from the Excel Workspace. For example, select an Excel file and then select a cell that contains a file path, or indicate a field from a selected email in Outlook that contains a file path.
  • Use Saved Value - Select a value in the form of a file path that you previously saved for later use in the project.
  • Text - Enter a file path in the Text Builder. You can combine text with a formula from an Excel file cell, for example to add a date to the file name using formulas in the Excel Workspace.
  • Open in Advanced Editor - Enter a VB expression.

Properties

Common

• DisplayName - The name displayed for the activity in the Designer panel.

File

• Encoding - The encoding type to be used. You can find the complete list of codes for each character encoding here. To specify the encoding type to be used, use the value from the Name field. If no encoding type is specified, the activity will search for the file's Byte Order Marks to detect the encoding. If no Byte Order Marks are detected, the system ANSI code page is selected by default. This field supports String variables.
• FileName - See Write to filename in the body of the activity.

Input

• Text - See Text in the body of the activity.

Misc

• Private - If selected, the data used in the activity is not logged by StudioX.