From the course: Complete Guide to UiPath RPA Development

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Overview

Overview

- [Narrator] Almost every automation you create is going to have to look at some kind of data and make a decision about which path through the logic needs to be taken. Choosing activities to handle those decisions is referred to as adding flow control to your automation, and sometimes we refer to this as conditionals and that simply means, if the data is this condition, then do that. Otherwise, if it's that condition, do something else. The most basic conditional activity we have is called If/Else, and we use this when we only have one or two choices, whether the data is this or that. The If/Else activity can be used in either a sequence or a flowchart. The decision diamond activity is exactly the same as If/Else in that we use it when we have only one or two choices. But the key difference is a decision diamond can only be used in a flowchart, and you may have seen in static flowchart documents a diamond-shaped symbol that has yes or no pathways. In cases where we have more than two…

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