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Logging to the output window

Logging to the output window

- [Instructor] Okay now, I'd like to talk about using the logged message activity to trace the steps of your robot down in this output window so that you can verify the right things are happening and use it for troubleshooting. In addition to showing up down here in the output window, these logged messages, once you publish the robot to Orchestrator and run a job, you'll be able to use this view logs feature in orchestrator to view the log messages in a similar way. So, I'll close up that output window and go to activities. And notice we have a right line activity. I never use that because it only writes the specified string to the output window. I'm fairly certain that this does not show up in Orchestrator, and since our automated processes are always going to run in Orchestrator, we should instead click up here and type log M and click and drag log message into your workflow. When I click on Log Message, you can see the properties are basically the same as what we see on the…

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