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Read File

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Overview

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Use this action to read the content in a file (ex. you have a document that contains some text and you want to make a variable of type string with the document's content).

How to configure the Read file action?ο»Ώο»Ώ

1. Create a process and give it a name.

2. Drag the Read file action to the canvas and link it to the other actions.

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3. Create the variables needed for the configuration of the action, and then add them to the configuration panel:

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File: the file data type variable where the actions will read from

Content: the string output variable resulted from reading the file

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4. Save, Validate and Run the process.

5. Click Check Instance to view the results. Check output variables.

Result: All the text content from the document is now extracted and stored in the string output variable. πŸ’ͺ🏼

Updated 31 Mar 2023
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