Release notes

This package version brings in a new activity, currently in preview, aimed to help you execute business rules defined in Orchestrator. The Evaluate Business Rule activity not only streamlines decision-making processes in your workflows, but also enhances auditing of complex decisions, and assesses their impact as part of an end-to-end process.

The Invoke Workflow File activity would still display a warning for missing arguments, even if they were correctly configured.

In cross-platform projects, the Invoke Workflow File activity encountered an issue when trying to access files from a subfolder, causing it to fail.

An issue prevented coded workflow files from being published or compiled if they were declared in a namespace starting with "UiPath."

Wait for Download and Do While activities were incorrectly displaying an extra Body property in Studio Web.

In the Get Transaction Item activity, queues with a Specific Data JSON schema now have a new Specific Data output property, allowing direct access to user-defined queue properties.

When using modules in the Invoke Power Shell activity, you can now directly select a PowerShell version through the Execution Mode property, which displays the following options:

The following recommendations apply:

For the Add Transaction Item activity, we’ve moved the Transaction Item field to the dedicated section for Output properties.

We’ve addressed the issue where System activities for credentials and assets lost their configured values when disconnecting from Orchestrator. Additionally, all Orchestrator activities now maintain values that were associated with the selected Orchestrator folder.

The following activities have been added:

The following activities received an improved interface:

The following activities have been renamed:

An issue causing System Activities to trigger a client side timeout has been resolved. The issue was happening when a direct HttpClientHandler was used in Windows - Legacy Projects. This made the HTTP connection unable to handle the new refresh token and trigger the timeout error.

An issue causing System Activities to trigger a client side timeout has been resolved.

The issue was happening when a direct HttpClientHandler was used in Windows - Legacy Projects. This made the HTTP connection unable to handle the new refresh token and trigger the timeout error.

Some accessibility improvements have been added.

To decrease the package size for runtime, especially for cross-platform projects, the UiPath.System.Activities package was split into design-time package and runtime packages, as follows:

The following activities have been added:

The following activities received an improved interface:

Erratum: added 7 June 2023

An issue has been resolved that was causing the Comment activity to throw the "Input string was not in a correct format." error message when special characters were used.

Support for Traditional Chinese

The user interface of the activities in the System package is now available in Traditional Chinese.

New Activities

Improvements

System 22.10.3 and higher is not fully compatible with versions of Studio that are lower than 2021.10.10.

New Activities

Fixed an issue with the Invoke Code activity which caused imports not to compile in libraries when the activity used an external package.

Fixed an issue where the For Each Row in Data Table activity would not expand when activities with wide designers were added inside.

The package now includes an Else If activity which is useful when multiple conditions must be evaluated. For more information about this activity, see .

Entries inside the Multiple Assign activity can now be reordered using the new Move button. Find out more about this feature here.

The Message Box activity now includes a maximum timeout. When it expires, the message is automatically dismissed. By default, this is set to 0 so that older workflows are still compatible. For more information about this activity, see Message Box.

This activities package now supports .NET 5 Windows and Cross-platform projects. For more information, see About Automation Projects.

The new For Each Folder in Folder activity enables you to execute an activity or a series of activities for each child folder in a specified folder.

The new Create List activity enables you to create a new empty list (array) to be used later in the automation.

The new Append item to list activity enables you to add an item at the end of a specified list.

The new Read list item activity enables you to retrieve the value of a specific item in a list.

The new Update list item activity enables you to update the value of a specific item in a list.

The new Rename Folder activity enables you to rename a specified folder.

The new Rename File activity enables you to rename a specified file.

Fixed an issue which caused the Build Data Table activity to return an error when the Data Table button was clicked.

The Invoke Workflow activity doesn't support variables/arguments as workflow file names in Modern .NET 5 Windows projects. This will trigger an "Expressions are currently not supported" error notification.

The Invoke Code activity from UiPath.System.Activities pack version 21.10 is only compatible with UiPath Studio 21.10 or newer versions.

Fixed performance issues regarding the Message Box activity.

The Orchestrator HTTP Request activity is now compatible with the Modern Folders feature in Orchestrator.

The Check True and Check False activities now have a new property, named Result, which outputs a boolean variable that states whether the expression it was used with was true or false.

The Invoke Process and Invoke Workflow File activities now log additional information when running.

The Invoke Process and Invoke Workflow File activities now receive dynamic arguments as input.

The Message Box activity has a new property, called TopMost, that, if selected, forces the message box to the foreground. The Select File and Select Folder activities are now displayed in the foreground automatically.

The Kill Process activity has a new property field, named AppliesTo, which enables you to choose whether to kill the process only if it belongs to the current user, only if it is on the current session, or if it belongs to a different user.

We have added a new activity, Update Row Item, which enables you to assign a specified value into an indicated column of a DataTable.

The Else section of the If activity is now optional in all Studio profiles.

We have added a new activity, Modify Date, which updates a date value using modifications like adding or subtracting days and finding the first or last day of the week, month, or year.

The following DataTable activities have been ported over to the StudioX profile:

This release addresses the hotfix released by Microsoft for a critical security vulnerability in the way .NET deserializes XML.

We have developed a completely new scope activity for triggers, called Trigger Scope. This activity is usable with all the triggers present in both UIAutomation and System activity packs. It offers the required arguments to work with the trigger out of the box, like trigger name and type or its source event. Moreover, it can treat the incoming events sequentially or concurrently while it can exit after one execution.

The Process Start Trigger, Process End Trigger, and Break activities can now be used inside the Trigger Scope activity.

The activity has been made compatible with Studio, which means you can now use its functionality when building workflows with your favorite profile.

The new Modify Text activity enables you to update a text value using modifications including find and replace, trim, and combining (concatenating) with another text value.

The new Text to Left/Right activity enables you to retrieve the text to the left and to the right of a specified separator.

The new Compress/Zip Files activity enables you to add files or folders to a compressed (zip) file.

The new Extract/Unzip Files enables you to extract all the contents of a zip file archive to a specified folder.

The Wait Queue Item activity has migrated away from using the Timeout (milliseconds) property to determine its timeout duration and, instead, uses the Heartbeat interval, so it can sync much more efficiently with Orchestrator.

The Download File activity has been renamed to Wait for Download to better reflect the intended usage of the activity in your automation projects.

This activity pack has now been upgraded and is fully compatible with the C# Studio feature. For more information about C# support, see About Automation Projects.

The amount of packages you can find on UiPath activity feeds is humongous, and it grows with each passing day. This can prove to be a nuisance when searching for a package with a more common name, for example. We felt your pain and decided to do something about this. From now on, all UiPath official activity packs can be easily filtered in the Package Manager so you’ll be able to reach your favorite package in no time!

This release also addresses the hotfix released by Microsoft for a critical security vulnerability in the way .NET deserializes XML.

The HTTP Request activity now enables you to set custom accepted response MIME types (provided through a dedicated header) when you choose the new CUSTOM value in the AcceptFormat property, thus no longer limiting responses to the built-in formats.

Use the new endpoint SetRobotAssetByRobotKey to set the asset value in the Set Asset and Set Credential activities.

The While and Do While activities have suffered a makeover, extending their functionality. You can now insert Break / Exit Loop and Continue / Skip Current activities in their bodies, enabling you to break loops, or continue to the next cycle. This does not cause any breaking change to your old workflows, as the older versions of these activities still function properly, albeit without the new functionalities.

Also, to complement the Orchestrator Storage feature, we have created activities to work with Orchestrator in performing basic CRUD actions:

The Invoke Process and Run Parallel Process activities now have a new property, Entry Point Workflow, which enables you to designate the first workflow that is to be executed when invoking the process.

The Download File activity detects a file download from any application and waits for the download to complete before any further processing of the file in the automation.

As of this release, the Project Settings feature has been implemented in the System activities pack, enabling you to set project-wide configurations for the activities in this package.

Most of the Orchestrator activities have a new property, FolderPath, which, paired with the Folders feature in Orchestrator, enables you to specify if the Transaction Item you want to process is located in a folder different than the default one.

We have further increased language support by adding Turkish, Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish (Latin America), and Spanish (Spain) to the list of languages present in the UiPath Platform.

A new activity, called Run Parallel Process has been added to the System package, enabling you to run a specified process in Orchestrator, with the ability to pass it a list of input arguments.

Three new languages, German, South Korean, and Portuguese are available for the UiPath.System.Activities package.

The Invoke Code activity now also supports C#, which has been added to our arsenal of programming languages that can be directly invoked from UiPath workflows. You can make the switch between the default VB.NET and C# by using the new Language property.

We want to reach out to the entire world and make automation a language everyone can speak. So, starting with this release, the entire platform is available in Chinese.

The new Invoke Process activity enables you to begin the execution of any process that is present on the machine you are working on directly from your current workflow.

The recently developed Multiple Assign activity helps you clear the clutter in your workflows by letting you use a single activity for multiple assign actions.

The activity has been created with the purpose of adding VBScript to the list of the languages you can directly use into your processes.

The ItemInformationCollection property has been added to the Add Queue Item activity, enabling you to import an entire dictionary as information for queue items.

The Invoke Workflow File activity now has the ability to import arguments, as well as open the workflow that it is invoking, directly from two new buttons in the body of the activity.

Our goal is to simplify the way you interact with Orchestrator, so we've implemented the possibility of adding multiple queue items into a new activity, Bulk Add Queue Items.

Optimising the way queue items are processed, the new Wait Queue Item activity can notify Orchestrator it is ready to receive a queue item, and then wait for Orchestrator to add an item to that queue, eliminating the need for multiple retries.

The Reference and FilterStrategy properties have been added to the Get Transaction Item activity, enabling you to filter the Transaction Item you want to retrieve by its Reference.

With simplification in mind, we have removed the Multiline and Singleline check boxes from the Regex Builder Wizard. No worries, as this does not cause a breaking change, because the Singleline and Multiline options are still available in the RegexOptions property field.

We have developed a RegEx Builder Wizard wizard which gives you the ability to harness the power of Regular Expressions with a simple and easy to use UI. This wizard can be accessed from the body of the IsMatch, Matches, and Replace activities.

The Orchestrator HTTP Request activity has been improved and is now able to retrieve the headers of the requests it performs.

This new year brings two more languages in the entire UiPath Platform - French and Russian. Since we layed down the foundations of localization in our previous release, we are continuing our efforts in bringing you a more immersive experience and lowering the language barrier bit by bit.

To facilitate identifying which step the Robot is performing at any given time, we have created the Report Status activity, which enables you to create a custom status message that is displayed in the Robot Tray at any point in the execution of a workflow.

Also, dark times ahead, the Dark Theme is now available, in its beta version, on all of the activities and wizards in this package.

The Core Activities Package is now split into two distinct packs: UIAutomation and System. The first contains all the activities that mimic human interaction, such as Click or Type Into while the latter sums up all the blocks required for building an automation, from invoking another workflow to logging a custom message in Orchestrator.

This change was made so that both in present and future versions, you can reference any version of the UIAutomation and System packages as dependencies for your projects, completely independent of Studio. This is a step forward for being able to update UiPath Platform components without worrying about how they affect your automations.

We've added a new Continue activity to the Core pack. It enables you to streamline conditions inside a For Each loop, without nesting If activities, by skipping iterations.