Robocorp Visual Studio Code Overview

Install the Robocorp Code and Robot Framework Language Server extensions for Visual Studio Code from the Visual Studio Marketplace.

Creating a new robot

• Open the Command Palette (macOS: Shift-Command-P, Windows / Linux: Ctrl+Shift+P).
• Select Robocorp: Create Robot.

Select the Standard template

Note that a bit more extensive Extended template and a pure Python template are also available.

Provide a name for the robot

Running the robot

You can run the robot in an isolated environment like it would be run in the cloud or in self-hosted environments.

The run:

• Packages the robot just like when uploading to Control Room.
• Sets up a clean environment and executes the robot, just like the App and Cloud containers do.
• Displays standard output and the results in the Debug Console panel.

The run gives you a good grasp on if your robot will work outside your own computer and if you have everything set up correctly in your robot.yaml and conda.yaml files.

Running using Command Palette

• Open the Command Palette (macOS: Shift-Command-P, Windows: Ctrl+Shift+P).
• Select Robocorp: Run Robot.
• If you have multiple robots in the opened directory, select the one you want to run.

Running using the Activity Bar

• Click the Robocorp icon in the Activity Bar.
• Select the robot and the task.
• Click the launch icon.

Debugging the robot

You can add breakpoints and debug the robot execution.

• Add a breakpoint in the robot script.

Debugging using the Command Palette

• Open the Command Palette (macOS: Shift-Command-P, Windows: Ctrl+Shift+P).
• Select Robocorp: Debug Robot.

Debugging using the Activity Bar

• Click the Robocorp icon in the Activity Bar.
• Select the robot and the task.
• Click the debug icon.

Linking to Control Room

• Open the Command Palette (macOS: Shift-Command-P, Windows: Ctrl+Shift+P).
• Select Robocorp: Link to Robocorp Cloud.
• Press Enter to open Control Room, where you can add new access credentials.
• Click Add Credential.
• Provide a name, click Add.
• Click on the View icon.
• Click Copy to clipboard.
• In VS Code, paste the access credential you copied from Control Room.

Unlinking and removing credentials from Control Room

• Open the Command Palette (macOS: Shift-Command-P, Windows: Ctrl+Shift+P).
• Select Robocorp: Unlink and remove credentials from Robocorp Cloud.

Uploading the robot to Control Room

• Open the Command Palette (macOS: Shift-Command-P, Windows: Ctrl+Shift+P).
• Select Robocorp: Upload Robot to the Robocorp Cloud.
• Select a workspace.
• Create a new robot or select an existing robot to overwrite.

Video instructions

You can also see the whole workflow and follow along in this short video series:

Watch us code a full robot from scratch in this live-coding video. The robot Google Translates song lyrics from source to target language and saves the original and the translated lyrics as text files:

Changelog

View the Robocorp extension changelog to keep up-to-date with improvements and new features!