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RPA Infrastructure Architect

RPA Design Lead

UiPath's "Send SMTP Mail Message" activity does not send the email when any address in the 'To' or 'Cc' Distribution List(s) fails to resolve against the Active Directory (AD) or is invalid. 

  

This component will identify and remove the invalid address(es) from the 'To' or 'Cc' fields and retry the email until it is sent or until an exception not caused by an invalid address issue is identified, while maintaining the functionalities that the "Send SMTP Mail Message" activity offers. 

  

Input Arguments: 

  

\- Attachments Collection (Array of String) - String array containing the path(s) of the attachment(s) to be included in the email

\- Body (String) - Include only if the IsHtmlBody flag is set to False

\- CCDistributionList (String) - The list of emails to be included in the 'Cc' field

\- From (String) - Optional argument

\- HTML Body (String) - Include only if the IsHTMLBody flag is set to True

\- IsBodyHtml (Boolean) - Identifies if the email body will be included in HTML format

\- SmtpPassword (String)

\- SmtpUserName (String)

\- SmtpPort (Int32)

\- SmtpServer (String)

\- Subject (String)

\- ToDistributionList (String) - The list of emails to be included in the 'To' field

  

Output Arguments: 

  

\- IsEmailSent (Boolean)

Identifies and removes the invalid addresses while sending an email and retries the email until it is sent or until an exception not caused by an invalid address issue is identified.

RPA Designer

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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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The attached Visual Studio project allows you to integrate 3rd party vault with UiPath Orchestrator.  The documentation and code has detailed steps for performing the integration with minimal changes in attached project.

Visual Studio project for integrating third party vault with UiPath Orchestrator.