Starting the IBM RPA Studio in offline mode

You can run the IBM RPA Studio in offline mode by adding the --offline parameter when opening the IBM RPA Studio in the run function of Windows™.

To do that, follow this procedure:

1. Press Windows key + R.
2. In the Open field, enter "%programfiles%\IBM Robotic Process Automation\IBM Robotic Process Automation\Studio.exe" --offline.
3. Click OK

You can also create a new shortcut for the IBM RPA Studio on the desktop.

To do that, follow this procedure:

1. Create a new shortcut for IBM RPA Studio.
2. Right-click Properties > Shortcut.
3. In the Target field, after the last quotation, press Space bar. Enter --offline.

When using the IBM RPA Studio in offline mode you can run the bots locally, but you are unable to communicate with the server, and therefore you can't use any features that rely on the server, such as publishing bots and machine learning models, for example.

If a command requires communication with the server, you might get error messages when running scripts.