UiPath Studio

UiPath Studio

UiPath Studio

                  UiPath is a robotic process automation tool which provides capabilities to automate all kinds of processes. The UiPath tool is not a freeware and is available from https://www.uipath.com/studio. The tool provides a trail version for two months from the official site. Lets check more depth into the tool.

                       UiPath studio contains many sections\panes where each has its own importance. On the top we have menu bar and tool bar. The menu\tool bar contains the following menu options


 New- To create a new workflow
Save – To save existing workflow after editing.
Run – Use F5 or this menu button to run the workflow created.
Cut, Copy, Paste – Allows performing Cut, Copy and Paste activities inside a workflow.
Undo, Redo - This allows redoing or undoing the last action.
Launch Ui Explorer – Gives you various options to frame selectors.
Recording – Allows recording a set off actions in various categories.
Screen scraping – Allows extracting data from the screen.
Debug – Allows running the workflow in debug mode.
Start – Starts the execution of workflow.
Stop – To stop the execution of running workflow.
Toggle Breakpoints – To place or remove break points.
Logs – UiPath logs provide detailed information of the realtime execution status of workflow activities.
Publish – To generate a executable package once the workflow is completed.
Setup Extensions – To setup various extensions for different browsers.

Left Pane

 The Left pane contains Library, Project and Activities. Lets see a brief into these 

Library

The library provides examples that are defined by UiPath.

Project

Contains the project files that are created.  The workflows that are created by you will appear here. You can browse all the workflow files.

Activities

This section contains all the activities that are used to build a workflow. A detailed description about the activities is described in activities section.

Bottom Pane

This contains the output where the execution results are displayed while executing a workflow. This section need not be present here it can be present even in the Right Pane.

Right Pane

 This pane contains properties and outline sections.

Properties

This section contains all the properties that are supported by activity. You can change the properties of each activity to perform required actions. The common properties include selector of an activity , timeout, delay before, delay after. 

Outline

This section contains the workflow activities in a flow diagram model. Where you can navigate and check the activities. Each activity is represented in single line.