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Using a Data type as robot inputs or outputs

Data types are structure definitions for your data.

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Written by Henrik Hofmeister
Updated over a week ago

You can configure your robots to take objects as inputs or outputs, as opposed to lists of properties - this allows you to use the pre-defined properties of an object as the inputs or outputs for a robot instead of having to copy lists of properties individually.

When doing this, you can use the properties of the object given as an input inside your robots:

Robot run configurations

Inputs

If your robots are configured to require objects as inputs, then you can add full objects in the Inputs tab of the run configuration:

Outputs

In the same vein, your robots can be configured to output data types instead of lists of properties, this will simply ensure that the properties used as outputs are the top-level ones from the selected data type. Any object or list properties are presented as JSON text:

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