- Getting Started
- Demo apps
- How To
- Notifications
- Using VB Expressions
- Designing your App
- Events and Rules
- Rule: If-Then-Else
- Rule: Open a Page
- Rule: Open URL
- Rule: Close Pop-Over/Bottom Sheet
- Rule: Show Message
- Rule: Show/Hide Spinner
- Rule: Set Value
- Rule: Start Process
- Rule: Reset Values
- Rule: Upload File to Storage Bucket
- Rule: Download File From Storage Bucket
- Rule: Create Entity Record
- Rule: Update Entity Record
- Rule: Delete Entity Record
- Rule: Add to Queue
- Rule: Trigger workflow
- Rule: Submit Action
- Leveraging RPA in your App
- Leveraging Entities in Your App
- Leveraging Queues in Your App
- Leveraging Media in your app
- Leveraging Actions in your app
- Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
- UiPath® First-Party Apps
- Basic Troubleshooting Guide
About Events and Rules
When you design your app, you may need to associate user interactions to specific app behaviors. For example, when X happens, do Y, where:
- X is called an Event.
- Y is called a Rule.
Here are a few examples:
- When the "Submit deposit" button is clicked, run an automation.
- When the value of the "Cash In" textbox changes, change the label color to red if the value is < 0.
- When the help icon is clicked, open the browser to show a documentation page.
- When a tab button is clicked, change the page container to show a different page.
By specifying what rules to execute when an event occurs, your app becomes a dynamic and interactive console.
Events are triggers that happen when a user interacts with an app or control. Each control supports a single event:
Event |
Control(s) |
---|---|
Clicked On |
Button, Header, Label, Icon, Image, etc |
Value Changed |
Checkbox, Date picker, Dropdown, Slider, Switch, Text Area, Textbox, List |
Loaded |
Page, Table |
Rules define what actions your app takes when a certain event occurs. Below is a list of the rules that Apps provides:
Rule |
Description |
---|---|
Set Value | Sets the value of a property. |
Show Message | Shows a message as a toast notification. |
Open a Page | Opens a page of the app as a pop-over or as the contents of a page container. |
Close Pop-Over/Bottom Sheet | Closes the current Pop-Over. |
Open URL | Opens a URL in the browser. |
Show/Hide Spinner | Shows or hides a spinner overlay to show the app as busy. |
Provides support for conditional statements in the rules builder. | |
Reset Value |
Reverts a control to a default value, or clears it if a default value is not configured. |
Create Entity Record | Creates a Data Service entity. |
Update Entity Record | Updates a Data Service entity. |
Delete Entity Record | Deletes an entity from Data Service. |
Starts a process. | |
Add to Queue | Adds an item to queue. |