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- Before You Begin
- Getting Started
- How To
- Designing your App
- Events and Rules
- Function: And, Or, Not
- Function: Concat
- Function: Contains
- Function: Count
- Function: EndsWith
- Function: If
- Function: IsBlank
- Function: Length
- Function: List
- Function: StartsWith
- Function: Sum
- Function: Sort
- Function: Now
- Function: Today
- Function: Time
- Function: Year
- Function: Month
- Function: Day
- Function: Hour
- Function: Minute
- Leveraging RPA in your App
- Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
- General Settings
- Permission Management
- Publishing a New Version of an App
- Packaging an App as a Client
- Basic Troubleshooting Guide
Apps User Guide for Automation Suite
Last updated Apr 19, 2024
Packaging an App as a Client
UiPath Apps are designed to be run in the browser but you can create a Windows executable to run them as well. To run a UiPath App as a Windows client executable, simply create an Electron wrapper that points to the production URL of an app. We've created a sample below to make this easy for you to use.
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Download the UiPath Apps Client Sample from GitHub and copy the files to a local directory, i.e.
C:\UiPathAppSample. -
Modify the sample to meet your needs. Here are some of the key modifications:
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icon.png - replace this with any icon you wish.
Note: It's best if the icon is square. - main.js
- RUNTIME_URL (line 7) - change this to point to the production URL of your App
- Window Parameters (lines 18-27) - change these parameters to meet the needs of your app
- package.json
- displayName (line 3) - this will be used as the EXE name of your app
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- Open a command prompt and navigate to the directory containing the files.
- Run "npm install" to install the node packages needed to build the app.
- Run "npm run start" to open the app as a window client (this is good for testing the app).
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Run "npm run dist" to build the app and package it with a Setup file. This will result in an EXE in the dist subdirectory (i.e. dist\UiPath Apps sample Setup 1.2.0.exe) which can be distributed to your users.
Note: Optional you can build the app EXE without a Setup fileRun "npm run pack" to build the app executable and all dependencies.
These will appear in the dist\win-unpacked directory
