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State machine basics

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- [Instructor] All right, finally, let's move on and have a look at state machines. Like I said at least once before, UiPath recommends using the state machine as the top-level activity for your automation. And, again, you'll find evidence of that if you go to Home and use this Robotic Enterprise Framework template to begin your project. And my entire curriculum is working you toward being more confident and prepared to use this RE Framework, as they call it. We'll take a closer look at this later in the course. For now, I'll use the back arrow to go back to our project. And I also mentioned that state machines are similar to a flowchart, so let's go into Activities and type State M, and under Installed Workflow we see this state machine collection. So instead of deleting this, I'm going to click and drag a state machine underneath it. And, again, we see that the initial state is this collapsed form, but if I expand it using the chevron, you can see how similar it looks to the…

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