UiPath.CSV.Activities.WriteCsvFile

Copies data previously saved for later in the project or data from an Excel file to a specified CSV file. The copied data replaces any data that already exists in the CSV file. If the CSV file does not exist, it is created when the automation is executed.

To learn how to use this activity, see Tutorial: Comparing Excel Files and Emailing Reconciliation Errors.

In the Body of the Activity

• Write to what file - Click next to the field and then browse to and select the CSV file where to copy the data. 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 path of the file you want to move:
  • 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.
• Write from - Click on the right side of the field and then, from the menu, select where to copy data from:
  • Select an Excel file and use the available options to choose a table, a sheet, or indicate a range in Excel.
  • Use Saved Value - Copy data that you previously saved for later use in the project.
  • Open in Advanced Editor - Enter a VB expression.
• Include headers - If selected, the column headers are copied to the CSV file.

Properties

Common

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

File

• FilePath - See Write to what file in the body of the activity.

Input

• DataTable - See Write from in the body of the activity.
• Delimiter - Specifies the delimiter in the CSV file. It can be tab, comma(','), semicolon(';'), caret('^'), or pipe('|').

Misc

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

Options

• AddHeaders - See Include headers in the body of the activity.
• 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.