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title: Creating and Managing Artifacts
slug: blueprint/creating-and-managing-artifacts
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createdAt: 2026-04-17T18:28:53.127Z
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An artifact is the overarching term for all individual assets within Blueprint. Artifacts support the full RPA analysis and migration lifecycle and come in three base types:

1. **Document artifacts** — allow you to upload a file and reference it from multiple other artifacts. When added to another artifact, it is known as a document reference. Document references differ from file attachments, which can only be associated with a single artifact
2. **Folder artifacts** — used solely for organizing your project
3. **Process artifacts** — a sequence of user actions and system responses describing a business process or user-to-system interaction

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ⓘ Instance Administrators can restrict which file types are available for upload on a per-project or instance-wide basis.

ⓘ Regardless of its type, any artifact can have relationships.
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# Creating an Artifact

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Select the folder, artifact, or project you want the new artifact added to
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Click the **New** icon in the Explorer toolbar
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In the **Create Artifact** window, select the artifact type and enter a name; click **Add another artifact** to create multiple artifacts of the same type at once
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Click **Create**
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# Saving and Publishing Artifacts

Saving changes creates a private draft visible only to you. To make changes visible to other users, you must publish.

- Click **Publish** in the artifact toolbar to publish individual changes
- Click **Publish All** in the Explorer to publish all unsaved changes across the project at once

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# Searching for Artifacts

**By artifact ID:**

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Click the **Go To** feature in the navigation bar
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Enter the artifact ID and press **Enter**
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**By artifact name:**

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Enter the artifact name or a keyword in the **Search Open Projects** field in the navigation bar and press **Enter**
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In the Search Results modal, click the artifact ID link to open the artifact
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# Moving Artifacts

## Drag and Drop

Select one or more artifacts and drag them to the desired location in the Explorer. Hierarchies are maintained where possible — dropping an artifact into another makes it a child; dropping it above makes it a sibling.

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⚠️ Drag and drop has the following limitations:

- Only supported in the Chrome browser
- Requires edit privileges in the project
- Folder artifacts cannot be moved into a non-folder location
- Artifacts cannot be moved across projects via drag and drop
- A maximum of 500 artifacts can be moved at one time
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## Via the Actions Menu

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Select the artifact in the Explorer
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Click the **Actions** dropdown and select **Move and Publish**
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In the **Move to...** modal, navigate to the destination location
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To move to another project, click the back indicator next to the current project root to display all accessible projects
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Choose whether to insert the artifact **Inside**, **Above**, or **Below** the destination
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Click **Move and Publish**
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ⓘ Trace relationships and custom properties are all preserved when moving an artifact. Only standard artifact types can be moved to another project, and the artifact must be published and not locked by another user.
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# Discarding and Deleting Artifacts

- **Discard** — reverts the artifact to its last published version; click the **Actions** dropdown and select **Discard**
- **Delete** — permanently removes the artifact; click the **Actions** dropdown and select **Delete**