Merge or combine multiple SAP intelligent RPA projects in a single project using Desktop Studio

Introduction

In this blog post, I am going to share my experience and learning with merging multiple SAP intelligent RPA projects in a single project. This blog may help you to solve merging issue.

Main Content

There are around 7 steps to merge projects. Those are as below

Step 1 – Create new project “MergeSAPiRPA” in Desktop Studio

Step 2 – Copy Screens and PSCP files

Move contents of  RPAProject1 and RPAProject2 to MergeSAPiRPA Project’s appfolder

• Go to RPAProject1 folder -> “app” directory and copy to MergeSAPiRPA Project’s app folder

  

• Go to RPAProject2 folder “app” directory and copy to MergeSAPiRPA Project’s app folder

Note: Copy Screens folder and .pscp file and paste those to the other project folder

• Open project root folder and open MergeSAPiRPA.pscp in notepad and replace APPLICATIONS tag as below

• Open project MergeSAPiRPA.pscp in Desktop Studio.
• Go to Applications tab -> Newly added Screens can be seen under this section.

• Go to Workflows tab -> Newly added Workflows can be seen under this section.

Step 3 –  Copy custom JavaScript files

• Go to RPAProject1 folder -> “local” directory and copy to MergeSAPiRPA Project’s local

  Note: Except entities.js, global.js, labels.js files

  

• Go to RPAProject2 folder “local” directory and copy to MergeSAPiRPA Project’s local

Note: Except entities.js, global.js, labels.js files

Step 4 – Copy Workflows files

• Go to RPAProject1 folder -> “workflows” directory and copy to MergeSAPiRPA Project’s workflows

Note: Except entities.ancestor.js, entities.auto.js, WorkflowData.xml, WorkflowEvents.xml and WorkflowSetting.xml files.

• Go to RPAProject2 folder “workflows” directory and copy to MergeSAPiRPA Project’s workflows

Note: Except entities.ancestor.js, entities.auto.js, WorkflowData.xml, WorkflowEvents.xml and WorkflowSetting.xml files

Step 5 – Popups

• Open project root folder and open MergeSAPiRPA.pscp in notepad and replace popup Process tag as below under <_ECRANS> of RPAProject1 project and RPAProject2 project. In case popup there

  

Step 6 – Context variables

• Go to RPAProject1 folder -> “workflows” directory and open ‘WorkflowData.xml’ file. Copy <ITEM> tag to ‘WorkflowData.xml’ file of MergeSAPiRPA project.

  
  

• Go to RPAProject2 folder -> “workflows” directory and open ‘WorkflowData.xml’ file. Copy <ITEM> tag to ‘WorkflowData.xml’ file of MergeSAPiRPA project.

  
  

Note:  In case Context variables not visible in project you can create it manually and map to workflows. Below are the manual steps to do the same

Step 6 – Create context variables manually and map with workflows

Sometimes context variables not visible in Desktop Studio in that case create context variables manually to newly created project MergeSAPiRPA.

• Map manually created context variables CtxtId to RPAProject1.pscp and RPAProject2.pscp accordingly

  

• Open above mentioned .pscp file and go to <WORKFLOWS> section and map context variable Id to RootData, Input and Output accordingly.

  Note: Please take CtxtId from \..\workflows\WorkflowData.xml path

  

Step 7 – Now build and run the code, it should execute the project smoothly if you follow all steps correctly.

Conclusion

If you follow above mentioned steps, step by step you will be able to merge multiple SAP intelligent RPA projects in the desktop studio.

Thank you!