Read File
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?
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
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. 💪🏼
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