UiPath - Develop your own activities

Navigate to UiPath's site, choose the free community edition, create a Google or Microsoft account, and download and install the stable UiPath Studio.

Install Visual Studio 2019 and enable the .NET desktop development workload, then install the extension to create UiPath custom activities.

install the ui path activity creator extension in visual studio to enable creating custom activities, by downloading, closing visual studio, restarting, and verifying the package appears under new project options.

Develop a simple package with two activities, define properties, descriptions, and icons, then publish, generate, and test; then build a complex activity that translates text using the Google Translate API.

Create a new project for developing a custom activity, follow the company name and product naming, select the location, and prepare to explore the project structure in the next lesson.

Explore the project structure, focusing on the shared project containing the fake company calculator and Charlotte projects. Learn where to implement custom activity logic, including client models and activity design.

Define two activities using create and import, and learn to set basic properties such as timeout and icon for simple activities.

Defining properties guides configuring three properties for an addition activity in UiPath, with first number, second number, and result as integer properties—two inputs marked as required and third as output.

Develop your own UiPath activity by configuring properties, validating first and second number inputs, and implementing addition and subtraction logic with the result sent to output.

Publish the project to generate activities, polish the package, create a package profile, and test the generated activities in UiPath Studio.

Learn to install and test your own UiPath activities by linking the folder containing the generated package, and running addition and subtraction tests with results shown in message boxes.

Learn to customize your own UiPath activities by changing the package icon and description, updating package metadata, and publishing to reflect changes.

Create and test a UiPath package that uses Google Translate API to translate text with two activities: a scope activity to authenticate and a translate text activity to perform translations.

define activities and use export to json to save them, then import the json file to reuse saved activities in the extensions panel.

Understand UiPath libraries and how to create one. Choose libraries for simple tasks; they are easier to develop than activities but offer fewer options and less dynamic behavior.

Create a simple UiPath library that adds two numbers by defining three arguments: first number (integer, required), second number (integer, required), and result (integer, out), then publish the package.

Install the developed library in Weipa, create a simple process to test it, and run a calculator activity to display the numeric result in a message box.