- Release notes
- Installation and upgrade
- Before you begin
- Getting started
- Activities
- Designing long-running workflows
- Start Job And Get Reference
- Wait For Job And Resume
- Add Queue Item And Get Reference
- Wait For Queue Item And Resume
- Create Form Task
- Wait For Form Task And Resume
- Resume After Delay
- Assign Tasks
- Create External Task
- Wait For External Task And Resume
- Complete Task
- Forward Task
- Get Form Tasks
- Get Task Data
- Add Task Comment
- Update Task Labels
- Actions
- Processes
- Audit
Managing actions
- Make sure you are in the correct Orchestrator folder.
- You need to have the right user permissions to view and manage Actions.
- Go to the Inbox tab.
Warning: You can only edit an Action that is assigned to yourself. Your Pending Actions are read-only for other users. Unassigned Actions are read-only for all users.
The tables below show the available operations for each action status and the user permissions that are needed.
Here are all the available operations in the My Actions view (for Action Users):
Action status |
More options menu: available operations |
Page header: available operations |
---|---|---|
Pending |
Unassign Show similar actions Edit labels Edit properties (provided the user has the proper permissions) Remove |
Save Forward Unassign |
Unassigned |
Assign to self Show similar actions Edit labels Remove Complete * |
Complete * |
Completed |
Show similar actions Edit labels Remove | NA |
*The Complete operation is available for External Actions only.
Here are all the available operations in the Manage Actions view (for Action Admin users):
Action status |
More options menu: available operations |
Page header: available operations |
---|---|---|
Pending |
Reassign Unassign Show similar actions Edit labels Edit properties (provided the user has the proper permissions) Remove |
Unassign |
Unassigned |
Assign to user Assign to self Show similar actions Edit labels Edit properties (provided the user has the proper permissions) Remove Complete |
Assign to self Complete * |
Completed |
Show similar actions Edit labels Remove |
*The Complete operation is available for External Actions only.
To assign an Action to yourself:
- On the Unassigned tab, click the More options menu for the desired Action.
- Select Assign to self.
All users that have the required permissions for the specific folder can have an action assigned to them. To assign an Action to another user:
- Make sure you are in the Manage Actions view.
- On the Unassigned tab, select the More options menu for the desired action.
- Select Assign to user. The Assign Action window opens.
- Select a user from the drop-down list.
Additional information: The Assign to self operation is also available from the Action page header.
- Select the Actions that you want to assign in bulk.
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At the top of your Inbox, select one of the following:
- Assign to self - assign the Actions to yourself.
- Assign - assign the Actions to yourself or to other users
To unassign an Action as an Action User:
- On the Pending tab, click the More options menu for the desired action.
- Select Unassign to remove the Action from your Pending Actions list.
Additional information: The Unassign operation is also available from the Action's page header.
The currently assigned user is displayed at the top of the Action page. To unassign Actions:
- Make sure you are in the Manage Actions view.
- On the Pending tab, click the More options menu for the desired Action.
- Select Unassign to remove the Action from the current user assignment.
- Select the Actions that you want to unassign in bulk.
- At the top of your Inbox, select Unassign.
Only Action Admin users can perform the Reassign operation. To reassign an Action:
- Make sure you are in the Manage Actions view.
- On the Pending tab, click the More options menu for the desired action.
- Select Reassign to assign the Action to a different user. The Reassign Action window opens.
- Select a user from the drop-down list.
Result: This operation unassigns the Action from the previous user and assigns it to the one selected at step 4.
- On the Pending tab, click the More options menu for the desired Action.
- Select Edit properties to edit the Action properties. The Edit properties panel opens.
- Edit one or more properties, according to the new requirements.
- To save the changes you made, close the editing panel and click Save on the Save changes? window.
- Make sure you are in the Manage Actions view.
- On the Pending or Unassigned tab, click the More options menu for the desired Action.
- Select Edit properties to edit the Action properties. The Edit properties panel opens.
- Edit one or more properties, according to the new requirements.
- To save the changes you made, close the editing panel and click Save on the Save changes? window.
The Actions must be of type bulk form, and they must be generated by the same process version. Otherwise, the Bulk Edit button is disabled. To bulk edit Actions:
- From the Pending list, select the Actions you want to bulk edit.
- Click Bulk Edit at the end of the list. The Bulk Edit page opens.
- In the panel to the left, the form properties you can bulk edit are displayed.
In this panel, you can edit form metadata, such as form title, Action catalogs, priority, etc.
- In the panel to the right, the form fields you are allowed to bulk edit are displayed.
- Enter the new values and click the Save all icon.
Result: All selected Actions are saved with the new set of values.
To bulk complete Actions:
- If your Form Actions have a button that triggers completion, provide the required input for completion and click the corresponding button in the form.
- A pop-up is displayed asking you to confirm the completion of multiple items. Click Confirm to complete the Actions with the same input, or Cancel to review the values or postpone the bulk completion.
- A message informs you if the bulk completion was successful.
Result: The completed Actions are moved to the Completed list.
Both Action Users and Action Admin Users can perform the Show similar actions operation.
In the context of bulk editing, Actions generated by the same process, but with a different form layout, could not be bulk edited, as the Bulk Edit button gets deactivated.
To overcome this inconvenience, you have the option to display similar Actions, i.e., Actions generated by the same process and with the same form layout.
- On the Pending tab, click the More options menu for the desired Action.
- Select Show similar actions. The list gets filtered by similar Actions that can be bulk edited. You can apply further filters to the similar Actions list.
- Select the Actions you want to bulk edit and click Bulk Edit at the end of the list. The Bulk Edit page opens.
- On the Pending,Unassigned, or Completed tab, click the More options menu for the desired Action.
- Select Edit labels. The Edit labels window opens.
- Input the desired label name and press the
Enter
key. For example, create a label called "SAP", to faster identify SAP-related Actions. - Click Save to associate the label to the Action whose ID and name are displayed in the Edit Labels window.
If you already have a list of previously created labels and you start typing a name in the Edit Labels window, a list with possible matches is displayed. Select one or multiple labels that meet your requirements or continue typing to create a new one. This operation prevents duplicating labels.
- Label names cannot contain the following characters:
<, >, %, &, \, ?, /, :
. - You cannot track labels creation or removal in our current logs.
- The following labels are proprietary UiPath Studio tags and you cannot define and use them on your objects:
UiPathStudioProcess
,UiPathStudioTest
,UiPathStudioTask
,UiPathStudioLibrary
,UiPathObjects
,UiPathActivities
,UiPathStudioX
,UiPathTestCases
,UiPathEntities
,UiPathWebServices
,UiPathStudioTemplate
,UiPathStudioLocalizedTemplate
,C#
,CSharp
,VB
,VisualBasic
,GettingStartedTemplate
.
To add a label when creating a Form, or External Action, go to the Label input property field and type in the labels that you want to add for that specific Action that you are creating.
The table below demonstrates the three ways available for displaying labels associated to a specific Action:
Location |
How to |
Mentions |
---|---|---|
Edit Labels window |
Open the Edit Labels window for the desired action. All the associated labels are displayed. |
From this window, you can add or remove labels for the indicated Action. |
Action summary panel |
Select the desired Action and navigate to the corresponding Action summary panel. The Label field displays all the associated labels. | |
Unassigned,Pending, or Completed Action lists |
Hover over the desired Action to display a pop-up listing all the associated labels. |
Clicking in the Edit Labels window displays all the available Action labels. Select the labels that meet your requirements to associate them to the Action.
To remove labels from an Action:
- Open the Edit Labels window for the desired Action
- Click the remove button.
- Click Save.
Only users with Delete permissions on Actions can perform deletions. All successful deletions are logged in the Orchestrator Audit page.
To delete pending, unassigned, or completed Actions go to the More options menu on the Action you want to delete, and click Remove.
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exception. With UiPath.Persistence.Activities v1.2, the process resumes automatically.
Both action users and action admin users can perform the Forward operation. The Forward operation is currently available only for Form Actions and Actions that are inside the My Actions pending list.
To forward an Action:
- On the Pending tab, select an action.
- On the Action page header, click Forward . The Forward Action window opens.
- Select a user from the drop-down list.
- In the Comments field provide the context for forwarding the Action.
Both action users and action admin users can perform the Save operation. The Save operation is currently available only for Form Actions and Actions that are inside the My Actions pending list.
- On your own Pending tab, select an Action and provide some of the required input.
- On the Action page header, click Save .
Result: The Action is saved with the changes you made, and you can access it later to provide further input, or to complete it.
To assign, unassign, or delete multiple Actions, use the Multi-select Actions option. The available bulk operations are displayed at the bottom of the list.
To download Actions, navigate to More options on an Action list and click Download Actions.
csv
format. Otherwise, it downloads all the Actions in the current list, ordered descending by priority and creation time.
- Prerequisites
- Operations summary
- My Actions view
- Manage Actions view
- Assigning actions as an Action user
- Assigning actions as an Action admin user
- Bulk assigning actions
- Unassigning actions as an Action user
- Unassigning actions as an Action admin user
- Bulk unassigning actions
- Reassigning actions
- Editing actions properties as an Action user
- Editing actions properties as an Action admin user
- Bulk editing actions
- Bulk completing actions
- Displaying similar actions
- Adding labels to existing actions
- Label duplicates
- Labeling limitations
- Adding labels when creating an action
- Displaying labels
- Removing labels
- Deleting actions
- Forwarding actions
- Saving actions
- Multi-selecting actions
- Downloading actions