Code quality check in RPA Desktop Design Studio
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- UpdatedAug 1, 2024
- 3 minutes to read
- Xanadu
- RPA Hub
You can use code quality check in RPA Desktop Design Studio to proactively find the issues in an automation activity or the complete automation project. When you publish an automation project, an in-built code quality check is also performed. Code quality check enables you to reduce the number of errors and prevent potential issues that may hinder your automation.
Code quality check overview
Code quality check in RPA Desktop Design Studio is based on the pre-defined set of rules that are enabled from the RPA Hub instance. You must connect to the instance that has Code quality check to RPA Desktop Design Studio before you start using Code quality check. For more information on how to configure Code quality check from RPA Hub, see Code quality check in RPA Hub RPA Desktop Design Studio. For more information on the pre-defined set of rules, see Code quality rules list in RPA Hub.
When you check an activity or the complete automation project by using Code quality check, the issue results and details are displayed as a list of entries in the Code Quality Check Results window. The following example shows the window.

- If an affected component is in the current activity, it’s highlighted in the current activity.
- If the affected component is in a different activity, you can navigate to the activity. The component gets highlighted. See the following example to see the component highlight in RPA Desktop Design Studio.

Code quality check in publishing an automation project
Code quality check is automatically performed when you publish the automation project. If your project has code quality check issues, the Code Quality Check Results window is displayed with the result entries. For more information on how to publish an automation project, see Publish an automation project in RPA Desktop Design Studio in RPA Desktop Design Studio.
You can view the list of active and inactive rules from the View Rules window. You can filter the rules by their severity level from this window.