- Overview
- Productivity Activities
- Classic vs. Modern in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace activities
- Supported character encoding
- Excel
- Release Notes
- About the Excel Activities Package
- Project Compatibility
- Project Settings
- Use Excel File
- Append Range
- Auto Fill
- Autofit Range
- Change Pivot Data Source
- Clear Sheet/Range/Table
- Copy/Paste Range
- Create Pivot Table
- Delete Column
- Delete Rows
- Delete Sheet
- Duplicate Sheet
- Export to CSV
- Fill Range
- Filter
- Filter Pivot Table
- Find First/Last Data Row
- Find/Replace Value
- For Each Excel Row
- For Each Excel Sheet
- Format As Table
- Format Cells
- Get Excel Chart
- Insert Column
- Insert Chart
- Insert Rows
- Insert Sheet
- Lookup
- Match Function
- Protect Sheet
- Read Cell Formula
- Read Cell Value
- Read Range
- Refresh Excel Data Connections
- Refresh Pivot Table
- Remove Duplicates
- Rename Sheet
- Run Spreadsheet Macro
- Save Excel File
- Save Excel File As
- Save Excel File As PDF
- Sort Range
- Text to Columns
- Unprotect Sheet
- Update Excel Chart
- VLookup
- Write Cell
- Write CSV
- Write DataTable to Excel
- Get Cell Color
- Invoke VBA
- Select Range
- Get Selected Range
- Excel Application Scope
- Append To CSV
- Read CSV
- Write CSV
- Delete Column
- Filter Table
- Get Table Range
- Insert Column
- Sort Table
- Append Range
- Close Workbook
- Get Cell Color
- Read Cell
- Read Cell Formula
- Read Column
- Read Range
- Read Row
- Select Range
- Set Range Color
- Write Cell
- Write Range
- Save Workbook
- Create Table
- Get Workbook Sheet
- Get Workbook Sheets
- Refresh Pivot Table
- Create Pivot Table
- Get Selected Range
- Copy Sheet
- Delete Range
- Auto Fill Range
- Copy Paste Range
- Execute Macro
- Insert/Delete Columns
- Insert/Delete Rows
- Invoke VBA
- LookUp Range
- Remove Duplicates Range
- Excel Process Scope
- Manage CSV Files
- Filter CSV Files
- Verify CSV Files
- Table Functions
- Manage Multiple Excel Files
- Interpret Excel Results
- Manage Pivot Tables
- Manage Range Selection
- Read From Excel Files
- Manage Databases in Excel
- Compare CSV Files
- Compare Numeric Values
- Sort Data in Excel Files
- Filter and Delete Rows in Excel Files
- Manipulate Range Selections
- Verify Excel Workbook Data
- Read, Write, and Append Data in Excel
- Google Workspace
- Release notes
- About the Google Workspace activities package
- Project compatibility
- Add Attendee
- Create Event
- Delete Event
- Modify Event
- Search Events
- Use Google Drive
- Share File
- Delete File Permission
- Get File Permissions
- Update File Permission
- Copy File
- Create Folder
- Delete File
- Download File
- Find Files and Folders
- Get File Info
- Move File
- Upload File
- Create Document
- Create New Spreadsheet
- Get Mail Messages
- Send Mail Messages
- Change Labels
- Use Google Spreadsheet
- Add Delete Columns
- Add Delete Rows
- Auto Fill Range
- Add New Sheet
- Append Row
- Batch Spreadsheet Updates
- Copy Sheet
- Copy Paste Range
- Delete Range
- Delete Sheet
- Get Cell Color
- Get Sheets
- Read Cell
- Read Column
- Read Range
- Read Row
- Rename Sheet
- Write Cell
- Write Range
- Clear Range
- Download Spreadsheet
- Use Google Document
- Batch Document Updates
- Get Document
- Get Text Index
- Insert Text
- Replace Text
- Read All Text
- Create Script Project
- Get Project Content
- Upload Script File
- Create Deployment
- Run Script
- Mail
- Microsoft 365
- Release notes
- About the Microsoft 365 activities package
- Project compatibility
- Merge multiple sheets into a new summary Excel sheet
- Automatically accept calendar invites from your manager
- Move files to dedicated folders by type
- Verify if new employment documents (I9 and ID) match
- Add new customers to a SharePoint List
- Delete SharePoint List items newer than yesterday
- Notify me on Slack when an important Outlook Email is received
- Include creation date in new OneDrive file names
- Notify me by email when a new file is created
- Add Sheet
- Append Range
- Clear Range
- Copy Range
- Copy Sheet
- Create Workbook
- Delete Range
- Delete Sheet
- Get Cell Color
- Get Sheets
- Read Cell
- Read Column
- Read Range
- Read Row
- Rename Sheet
- Write Cell
- Write Range
- Set Range Color
- Create Table
- Get Table Range
- Insert Column
- Delete Column
- Insert Rows
- Delete Rows
- VLookup Range
- Use OneDrive & SharePoint
- Copy File/Folder
- Create Folder
- Delete File/Folder
- Download File
- Export File as PDF
- Find Files And Folders
- Get File/Folder
- Move File/Folder
- Upload File
- Share File/Folder
- For Each File/Folder
- Forward Mail
- Get Mail
- Move Mail
- Send Mail
- Reply to Mail
- Delete Mail
- Set Mail Categories
- Add Attachment
- Add Attendee
- Add Location
- Create Event
- Delete Event
- Find Meeting Times
- Get Calendars
- Modify Event
- RSVP
- Search Events
- Create Group
- Delete Group
- Get Group
- List Groups
- Create Bucket
- Delete Bucket
- List Buckets
- List Bucket Tasks
- Create Plan
- Get Plan
- List Plans
- Create Task
- Delete Task
- Get Task
- List Tasks
- Update Task
- For Each List
- Get List Info
- For Each List Item
- Delete List Item
- Add List Items
- Update List Item
- Get List Items
- Presentations
- Word
Classic vs. Modern in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace activities
Activity packages such as Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 include activities grouped under a Classic category.
In this section, you'll learn what the main differences between the "classic" and "modern" activities are, and why we recommend you start using modern activities in all your automations.
UI Improvements
The Modern activities bring significant UI improvements which makes them more business friendly:
- Easy to use file and folder browser widgets, which help you navigate through your folder structure in Google Drive, OneDrive and SharePoint sites, to choose the right folder or file that you need for your workflow.
- Easy to use filters and condition builder.
- Automatically generated dynamic datatables, which include additional file metadata.
- Other features which reduce additional steps when building processes.
Additionally, the Modern activities bring enriched features. The Microsoft 365 package includes SharePoint List activities which are not available in the Classic version, as well as SharePoint List triggers.
Trigger-based automations
With the Modern Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 activities, you can build trigger-based automations. Each package includes more than ten trigger activities, covering all applications: Calendar, Gmail and Outlook, Sheets and Excel Online, Google Drive and OneDrive, as well as SharePoint Lists.
On-premises vs. Cloud
If you're using UiPath Automation Cloud, we recommend the modern activities, which authenticate via UiPath Integration Service. These activities are available in cross-platform and Windows projects. Cross-platform project compatibility means you can use them regardless of your operating system, on Linux, Mac, or Windows. You can use them in Studio Desktop, Studio X, and Studio Web, and you can move projects across the three Studio flavors, depending on your needs.
If you're using the on-premises version of UiPath Orchestrator, use Classic activities, which are available for Windows and Windows – Legacy projects. These activities are available only in Studio Desktop.
Connections
Classic activities use different authentication methods, through the Application Scope activities. Modern activities use OAuth 2.0 protocol, through Automation Cloud – Integration Service connectors.
The Integration Service experience brings additional connection features, such as connections binding, connection sharing, and override possibilities.
- Connection sharing: the possibility to share a connection between multiple projects in your Personal Workspace or Shared Folders.
- Connection and properties, bindings and override: the possibility to update the connections and some activity proprieties after deployment, to suit the needs of each user. This facilitates an easier mechanism to distribute automations across the company and to move from development to production environments.
This means you can share and govern your Integration Service connections across individual users and groups within your organization. You can:
- Create, manage, and govern system connections in specific, sharable folders.
- Share connections with individual, groups, attended, or unattended executions and robots.
- Manage connections through UiPath Assistant, Apps, Studio, and Studio Web by reusing Orchestrator’s folder structure and permission management.
Security
When using Integration Service connectors, authentication credentials are no longer stored at activity or project level. They are stored at platform level in a dedicate system, where the connection is created and managed. You can also easily distribute roles and permissions, and maintain connection authorization control across users, folders, and folder connection contents.
Cloud vs. Serverless
You can use Modern activities for seamless unattended deployments. When you use Modern activities with Integration Service connections, you can set up and share connections across your team, to be used during design time or runtime, without having to store those credentials as assets in Orchestrator. As Integration Service is a Cloud-first offering from UiPath, this effectively opens up all types of robot setups, including attended, unattended, serverless, etc. As long as the connection is created in your Orchestrator tenant, the connection is still good, and your robots have access to Orchestrator, you’re all set.
Performance
Through activity caching and batching, you benefit from better performance both at runtime and at design time.
