Uipath Studio – User Interface

The user interface of UiPath Studio has multiple panels for easier access to specific functionalities. It can be docked, function as floating windows, or the Auto-hide option can be enabled.

• The Ribbon – The ribbon is a simple window and can be minimized or expanded by clicking the Minimize / Expand It consists of the following four tabs:
  • Start – to create new or open existing projects.
  • Design – to create or launch sequences, flowcharts or state machine diagrams, access wizards, manage variables, and inspect user interface elements from third-party apps.
  • Execute – Used to run or stop projects, for starting a debug process and open logs.
  • Setup – To publish projects or create shortcuts. Scheduling tasks and installing extensions.

• The Quick Access Toolbar – Provides shortcuts for commands.
• The Universal Search Bar – To find activities, libraries, projects, etc..
• The Designer Panel in UiPath – It is the main dialog box shows the current project
• The Context menu in UiPath – Enables to perform operations in a sequence or flowchart. There are some fields like open, view, collapse, cut, copy, paste and so on.
• The Activities Panel in UiPath – Shows all the activities that can be used in the current project
• The Library Panel in UiPath – Enables to easily reuse automation.
• The Project Panel in UiPath – Used to view the contents of the current panel
• The Properties Panel in UiPath – To view and change the properties of any activity
• The Outline Panel in UiPath – Displays project hierarchy, all variables, and nodes
• The Output Panel in UiPath – Displays the output of Log message
• The Locals Panel in UiPath – Displays all variables which are locally in the current scope.

Automation activity package: Automation in UiPath is done in three different recording types. They are –

• Basic Automation – generally for activity, not container. Suitable for a single activity.
• Desktop Automation – used in native internal applications such as Word, Excel, notepad
• Web Automation – used in web browsers, for web scraping, etc.
• Citrix Automation – used to automate in a virtual environment.

The UI Automation has so many packages such as Click, double click, hover, activate, highlight, get OCR, load image and so on.

Automation life cycle’s process includes –

• Documenting the process
• Development and code review
• Test
• Release
• Monitoring