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Process Recording Editor

If you start the recorder from RPA Builder, you can view the current process BPMN and all new recorded BPMNs by selecting them from the drop-down menu.

Select a process and click on the Edit, Merge and Upload Recordings button (Edit, Merge and Upload Recordings button) to open the Process Recording Editor.

RPA Recorder Home screen

Process Recording Editor Panels

The Process Recording Editor consists of two main panels:

  • Automation

    This panel provides a fully integrated BPMN modeler to edit the BPMN of the recording. The previously selected Recording session is automatically loaded into the modeler to start editing.

  • Documentation

    This panel shows the recorded documentation of each activity. Select an element in the Automation panel to view its recorded documentation.

    The Documentation panel provides a fully integrated text editor. You can edit the documentation of every activity by clicking Edit. After editing the documentation, click Save to apply the changes.

Process Recording Editor Panels

Load BPMNs for Edit and Merge

You can load additional BPMNs into the BPMN modeler:

  1. Click the Load File (Load File button) button.

  2. Select the BPMN or BPMNs you want to add and click Open.

    All recordings are stored in a separate folder per process and recording date.

  3. A dialog box opens asking if you want to merge the selected BPMN into the present BPMN in the modeler, or if you want to create a new BPMN with the selected one.
    Merge or create new BPMN dialog box

  4. Click Yes to merge the selected BPMN into the existing BPMN.
    After the import, you can edit and rearrange the new BPMN via drag and drop.

Save Edited BPMNs

To save the edited and merged BPMN locally, click Save.

  • When saving for the first time, a dialog box opens for you to indicate the BPMN file name, a process variant tag for better identifying the newly created BMPN.
    Save Recording As dialog box

    1. Click the folder icon to choose a different saving location.

    2. Click Save to save the BPMN.

  • After saving for the first time, you can click on the Save button (Save changes button) to save further changes to the selected filename and destination.

To open the Save recording as dialog box again, click the Save as button (Save As button) to choose a new name, variant tag and saving destination.

Upload BPMN to RPA Manager

After merging and editing the BPMN and documentation, you can upload the new process BMPN by clicking the Upload to RPA Manager icon (Upload to RPA Manager icon). A message opens confirming that the upload is completed.

You can then close the Process Recording Editor and RPA Recorder by clicking the Close icon (Close icon) in the top right corner.