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**Six** custom workflow analyzer rules are available with this DLL, which are namely listed below:

*   **Kill Process Activity Not Recommended:** Inspects the project to check 'Kill Process' activity usage.

Recommendation: Using 'Kill Process' activity kills the specified process, for all users logged on that machine. Use a custom code to kill the process, only for bot's logged on user.

*   **Repeated Activity Display Name:** Identifies activities having repeated display names in a workflow, excluding 'Log Message', 'Sequence' and 'Write Line' activities.

Recommendation: Add a descriptive title to the activity, to understand what it does.

*   **Hotkey Without Selector:** Inspects project to check usage of 'Send Hotkey' activity either without a selector or not included inside a container like 'Attach Browser' / 'Attach Window'.

Recommendation: Specify a selector when using Send Hotkey activity or include it inside a container.

*   **All Wildcard Attribute:** Inspects the attributes of selector to check, if one or more attributes have value equal to '\*' / '?'. All wild card for an attribute in selector doesn’t validate anything.

Recommendation: Remove the attribute whose value is all wildcard as it is not validating anything.

*   **Missing Informative Screenshot:** Verifies the availability of screenshot files in '.screenshots' folder of root path of project.

Recommendation: Attach informative screenshot to specified activities.

*   **Selector Attribute Not Recommended:** Inspects the attributes of selector to identify usage to 'parentclass', 'class', 'classname', 'parentid' in it. Using the attributes specified in selector, makes it less stable over a longer run.

Recommendation: Consider using  attributes other than (parentclass, class, classname, parentid) in the selector, to make it more stable/reliable.

  

**Steps to integrate the DLL with UiPath Studio**:

  

1\. For Community edition of UiPath, copy the DLL to 'C:\\Users\\USER NAME\\AppData\\Local\\UiPath\\app-Version of UiPath\\Rules\\' and restart Studio.

  

2\. For Enterprise edition of UiPath, copy the DLL to 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\UiPath\\Studio\\Rules\\' and restart Studio.

Post copying the DLL, the six custom rules specified above would be reflecting in 'Studio --&gt;&gt; Analyze File --&gt;&gt; Workflow Analyzer Settings' window.

Set of workflow analyzer rules, to ensure project code adheres to defined coding standards.

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VMware - Custom Workflow Analyzer Rules