- Overview
- Callout
- Complex Scenarios
- Credentials
- Data Service
- About the Data Service activity package
- Project compatibility
- Create Entity Record (New)
- Update Entity Record (New)
- Delete Entity Record (New)
- Get Entity Record by Id (New)
- Query Entity Records (New)
- Upload File to Record Field (New)
- Download File from Record Field (New)
- Delete File from Record Field (New)
- Create Multiple Entity Records (New)
- Update Multiple Entity Records (New)
- Delete Multiple Entity Records (New)
- Form
- Release notes
- Project compatibility
- Real Time Forms
- Updating form data
- Running forms using JavaScript
- Customizing Forms Using CSS
- Conditional components
- Adding multiple components on the same row in Columns
- Using the Data Table component
- Get File/Folder path
- Reading cell values from a Data Grid component
- Displaying PDF files
- Displaying images in forms
- Scrolling through Data Grids
- Using Dev Tools with forms
- Calculate form component values
- Managing dates in forms
- Opening hyperlinks inside forms
- Displaying a default tab in forms
- Displaying the full label of a component
- Searching long strings in drop-down lists
- About the pre 23.4 Form experience
- Project Compatibility
- Real Time Forms
- Dynamic Checkboxes
- Conditional Dropdowns
- Displaying a Default Tab
- Displaying Images
- Displaying PDF Files
- Displaying the Full Label
- Dynamic HTML Elements
- Managing Dates
- Searching Long Strings in Drop-downs
- Customizing Forms Using Local CSS Files
- Executing Do Block On Checkbox Change
- Customizing Columns Width
- Updating Form Data
- Resetting Collection Data
- Advanced Logic
- Executing Do Block on Dropdown Option Change
- Reading Cell Values From a Data Grid Component
- Conditional Components
- Scrolling Through Data Grid Components
- Using the Grid Component
- Dev Tools
- Calculated Value
- Dynamic Dropdowns
- Switching Tabs With Button Click
- Opening Hyperlinks Inside Form
- FTP
- IPC
- Persistence
- Release notes
- Project compatibility
- About the Persistence activity package
- Bulk Form Designer
- Start Job And Get Reference
- Wait For Job And Resume
- Add Queue Item And Get Reference
- Wait For Queue Item And Resume
- 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
- Get App Tasks
- Add Task Comment
- Update Task Labels
- Create App Task
- Wait For App Task And Resume
- Configure task timer
- Working with App tasks
- Building Your First Form Action
- Advanced Controls for Drop-downs
- Embedding Objects in Form Actions
- Allowing Users to Upload Files to the Storage Bucket
- Adding Advanced Logic Using Java Script
- Setting a Default Tab
- Removing the Delete button from Edit Grid using custom CSS
- Customizing Edit Grid templates
- Using buttons to trigger custom logic
- Using an External Form Layout
- Dynamically expanding form components at runtime
- Aligning the content of a form component from left to right using JSON attributes
- Sample Workflows
- Automation Ops Pipelines
- System
- Release notes
- About the System activity package
- Project compatibility
- Supported character encoding
- RegEx Builder Wizard
- Add Data Column
- Add Data Row
- Add Log Fields
- Add or Subtract from Date
- Add Transaction Item
- Add Queue Item
- Append Item to Collection
- Append Item to List
- Append Line
- Beep
- Break / Exit Loop
- Browse for File
- Browse for Folder
- Build Collection
- Build Data Table
- Bulk Add Queue Items
- Change Case for Text
- Change Type
- Check False
- Check True
- Clear Data Table
- Collection to Data Table
- Comment
- Compress/Zip Files
- Copy File
- Copy Folder
- Combine text
- Comment Out / Disabled Activities
- Continue / Skip Current
- Create File
- Create Folder
- Create List
- Custom Input
- Delete
- Delete File
- Delete Folder
- Delete Storage File
- Delete Queue Items
- Disable Local Trigger
- Do While
- Download file from URL
- Download Storage File
- Enable Local Trigger
- Evaluate Business Rule
- Exists in Collection
- Extract/Unzip Files
- Extract Date and Time from Text
- Extract Text
- File Change Trigger
- File Exists
- Filter Collection
- Filter Data Table
- Folder Exists
- For Each
- For Each File in Folder
- File Change Trigger V3
- Find and Replace
- Find Matching Patterns
- For Each Folder in Folder
- For Each Row in Data Table
- Format Date as Text
- Format Value
- Generate Data Table From Text
- Get Asset
- Get Credential / Get Orchestrator Credential
- Get Current Job Info
- Get Environment Folder
- Get Environment Variable
- Get File Info
- Get Folder Info
- Get Jobs
- Get Processes
- Get Row Item
- Get Transaction Item
- Get Username/Password
- Get Queue Items
- Global Variable Changed Trigger
- Input Dialog
- Invoke Code
- Invoke Com Method
- Invoke Power Shell
- Invoke Process
- Invoke VBScript
- Invoke Workflow File
- Is Text Matching
- Join Data Tables
- Kill Process
- Launch Workflow Interactive
- List Storage Files
- Log Message
- Lookup Data Table
- Manual Trigger
- Merge Collections
- Merge Data Table
- Message Box
- Modify Date
- Modify Text
- Move File
- Move Folder
- Multiple Assign
- New Item Added to Queue
- Notify Global Variable Changed
- Orchestrator HTTP Request
- Output Data Table
- Path Exists
- Postpone Transaction Item
- Process End Trigger
- Process Start Trigger
- Raise Alert
- Read List Item
- Read Text File
- Read Storage Text
- Remove Data Column
- Remove Data Row
- Remove Duplicate Rows
- Remove From Collection
- Remove Log Fields
- Replace Matching Patterns
- Repeat Number of Times
- Repeat Trigger
- Rename File
- Rename Folder
- Report Status
- Reset Timer
- Resume Timer
- Retry Scope
- Return
- Run Local Triggers
- Run Parallel Process
- Set Asset
- Set Credential
- Set Environment Variable
- Set Transaction Progress
- Set Transaction Status
- Should Stop
- Split Text
- Sort Data Table
- Start Timer
- Start Job
- Stop Job
- Stop Local Triggers
- Stop Timer
- Text to Left/Right
- Text to Upper/Lowercase
- Time Trigger
- Trigger Scope
- Timeout Scope
- Update Row Item
- Update List Item
- Upload Storage File
- Wait for Download
- Wait Queue Item
- While
- Workflow Placeholder
- Write Storage Text
- Write Text File
- AddDataRow
- AddQueueItem
- AddTransactionItem
- AppendLine
- BulkAddQueueItems
- ClearDataTable
- CompressZipFiles
- CopyFile
- CreateFile
- CreateFolder
- DeleteFileOrFolder
- DeleteQueueItems
- DeleteStorageFile
- DownloadStorageFile
- ExtractUnzipFiles
- FilterDataTable
- GetAsset
- GetCredential
- GetJobs
- GetQueueItem
- GetQueueItems
- GetResourceForLocalPath
- GetRowItem
- GetTransactionItem
- InvokeProcess
- JoinDataTables
- ListStorageFiles
- LookUpDataTable
- MergeDataTable
- MoveFile
- OrchestratorHTTPRequest
- OutputDataTable
- PathExists
- PostponeTransactionItem
- ReadStorageText
- ReadTextFile
- RemoveDataColumn
- RemoveDuplicateRows
- Replace
- SetAsset
- SetCredential
- SetTransactionProgress
- SetTransactionStatus
- SortDataTable
- StartJob
- StopJob
- UpdateRowItem
- UploadStorageFile
- WaitQueueItem
- WriteStorageText
- WriteTextFile
- Testing
- Release notes
- About the Testing activity package
- Project compatibility
- Project Settings
- Add Test Data Queue Item
- Address
- Attach Document
- Bulk Add Test Data Queue Items
- Create Comparison Rule
- Delete Test Data Queue Items
- Get Test Data Queue Item
- Get Test Data Queue Items
- Given Name
- Last Name
- Random Date
- Random Number
- Random String
- Random Value
- Verify Control Attribute
- Verify Documents Equivalence
- Verify Expression
- Verify Expression With Operator
- Verify Range
- Verify Text Equivalence
- Address
- AddTestDataQueueItem
- AttachDocument
- BulkAddTestDataQueueItems
- DeleteTestDataQueueItems
- GetTestDataQueueItem
- GetTestDataQueueItems
- GivenName
- LastName
- RandomDate
- RandomNumber
- RandomString
- RandomValue
- VerifyAreEqual
- VerifyAreNotEqual
- VerifyContains
- VerifyExpression
- VerifyExpressionWithOperator
- VerifyIsGreater
- VerifyIsGreaterOrEqual
- VerifyIsLess
- VerifyIsLessOrEqual
- VerifyIsRegexMatch
- VerifyRange
- Workflow Events
- Workflow Foundation
Workflow Activities
Create External Task
UiPath.Persistence.Activities.ExternalTask.CreateExternalTask
Creates an External Action with the given data, task title, task priority, and task catalog.
Designer panel
- TaskTitle - The title of the action you want to create. This field supports strings and
String
variables only. - TaskPriority - Enables you to select the priority level of the action. By default, this property is set to TaskPriority.Medium The following options are available: TaskPriority.Low, TaskPriority.Medium, TaskPriority.High, TaskPriority.Critical.
- TaskCatalog - An optional business classification of task items. This field supports strings and
String
variables only. - TaskData - A collection of business data, in the form
Dictionary<String,Argument>
, that you want to store in a given action. ModifyingOut
andIn/Out
arguments maps them back to the workflow after the action is completed. This field supportsDictionary<String,Argument>
objects only. - TaskObject(Output) - The task object that is returned from Orchestrator as an
ExternalTaskData
object after the action is created. This object can be passed to the Wait for External Task and Resume activity in order to suspend the execution of the workflow until the action is completed.
Properties panel
Common
- ContinueOnError - Specifies if the automation should continue even when the activity throws an error. This field only supports Boolean values (True, False). The default value is False. As a result, if the field is blank and an error is thrown, the execution of the project stops. If the value is set to True, the execution of the project continues regardless of any error.
- DisplayName - The display name of the activity.
- TimeoutMS - Specifies the amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait for the activity to run before an error is thrown. The default value is 30000 milliseconds (30 seconds).
Input
- External Tag - A tag that can be used to identify the external system which is the source for the data in the given action. This field
supports strings and
String
variables only. - Labels - The robot adds the inputted labels to the action, allowing future filtering. This field supports string values only and has naming restrictions.
- Orchestrator Folder Path - The path to an Orchestrator Folder different to the one the current process operates in, where you want to create the task. To read more on Orchestrator Folders,
go here. For Classic folders, this property can only be used with Floating Robots and only if the current user has the correct task privileges in the target folder. For Modern folders, folder path overriding is not supported. This field supports strings and
String
variables only.
- TaskCatalog - An optional business classification of task items. This field supports strings and
String
variables only.
- TaskData - A collection of business data, in the form
Dictionary<String,Argument>
, that you want to store in a given action. ModifyingOut
andIn/Out
arguments maps them back to the workflow after the action is completed. This field supportsDictionary<String,Argument>
objects only. - TaskPriority - Enables you to select the priority level of the action. By default, this property is set to TaskPriority.Medium The following options are available: TaskPriority.Low, TaskPriority.Medium, TaskPriority.High, TaskPriority.Critical.
- TaskTitle - The title of the action you want to create. This field supports strings and
String
variables only.
Misc
- Private - If selected, the values of variables and arguments are no longer logged at Verbose level.
Output
- TaskObject(Output) - The task object that is returned from Orchestrator as an
ExternalTaskData
object after the action is created. This object can be passed to the Wait for External Task and Resume activity in order to suspend the execution of the workflow until the action is completed.
- TaskTitle - The title of
the action you want to create. This field supports strings and
String
variables only. - TaskPriority - Enables you to select the priority level of the action. By default, this property is set to TaskPriority.Medium The following options are available: TaskPriority.Low, TaskPriority.Medium, TaskPriority.High, TaskPriority.Critical.
- TaskCatalog - An optional
business classification of task items. This field supports strings and
String
variables only.
- TaskData - A collection of
business data, in the form
Dictionary<String,Argument>
, that you want to store in a given action. ModifyingOut
andIn/Out
arguments maps them back to the workflow after the action is completed. This field supportsDictionary<String,Argument>
objects only. - TaskObject(Output) - The
task object that is returned from Orchestrator as an
ExternalTaskData
object after the action is created. This object can be passed to the Wait for External Task and Resume activity in order to suspend the execution of the workflow until the action is completed.
Advanced options
Common
- ContinueOnError - Specifies if the automation should continue even when the activity throws an error. This field only supports Boolean values (True, False). The default value is False. As a result, if the field is blank and an error is thrown, the execution of the project stops. If the value is set to True, the execution of the project continues regardless of any error.
- TimeoutMS - Specifies the amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait for the activity to run before an error is thrown. The default value is 30000 milliseconds (30 seconds).
Input
- Labels - The robot adds the inputted labels to the action, allowing future filtering. This field supports string values only and has naming restrictions.
- Orchestrator Folder Path -
The path to an Orchestrator
Folder different to the one the current process operates in,
where you want to create the task. To read more on Orchestrator Folders, go
here. For
Classic folders, this property can only be used with Floating
Robots and only if the current user has the correct task privileges in
the target folder. For Modern folders, folder path overriding is not
supported. This field supports strings and
String
variables only.
- Reference - A tag that you
can use to identify the external system which is the source for the data in the
given action. This field supports strings and
String
variables only.
Creating external actions
To create an External Action choose between the following procedures:
-
Add a Create External Task activity into your workflow and provide information for the following property fields:
- Task Title
- Task Priority
- Task Data (Collection)
- External Tag - Specify a tag to uniquely identify batches of external tasks that you want to retrieve from a third-party system. You can use this tag to sync External Tasks with an external system. Also, you can use this tag to complete tasks based on the actions a user takes in the third party system.
- Create External Action using APIs.
Syncing external actions with third-party tools
To sync External Actions with other external systems, you need to first create a corresponding object for it inside the external system, and then retrieve the task, or batch of tasks, created by the third-party system, using an API call.
-
Create an object inside an external system, such as:
- Create an issue in Jira.
- Create a contact in Salesforce.
-
Call the following API in Swagger: GET
/odata/Tasks/UiPath.Server.Configuration.OData.GetTasksAcrossFolders
.For example: GET<ORCH_URL>/odata/Tasks/UiPath.Server.Configuration.OData.GetTasksAcrossFolders?$filter=(Type eq 'ExternalTask') and (IsDeleted eq false) and (ExternalTag eq 'JiraTasks') and (Status ne 'Completed')&$count=true
.
/tasks/GenericTasks/GetTaskDataById
. You can use the retrieved
details to create a similar task in a third-party system.
The screenshots below show the API parameters and responses in Swagger. To access your tenant inside Swagger, follow the Accessing your Swagger file procedure.
/tasks/GenericTasks/CompleteTask
.
Visit the Complete External Task procedure from the Orchestrator API guide for more details.