- Getting Started
- Before You Begin
- How To
- Build Your First App
- Build a Mobile-friendly App
- Embed Apps
- Embed Maps
- General User Experience Guidelines
- Hide Containers Using a Button
- Include Excel Charts in Apps
- Include MailTo Links
- Include Star Ratings
- Use Count With Choice Set Values
- Use Document Viewer
- Use Master Detail View
- Use Selected Values From a Table
- Use the Send Interim Result Activity
- Set External Context
- Work With Data Source and Value Bind
- Notifications
- 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 Values
- Rule: Start Process
- Rule: Upload File to Storage Bucket
- Rule: Get File From Storage Bucket
- Rule: Reset Values
- Rule: Create/Update Entity Record
- Rule: Delete Entity Record
- Rule: Add to Queue
- Function: And, Or, Not
- Function: Concat
- Function: Contains
- Function: Count
- Function: EndsWith
- Function: If
- Function: IsBlank
- Function: Guid
- Function: Length
- Function: List
- Function: StartsWith
- Function: Sum
- Function: Sort
- Function: Now
- Function: Today
- Function: Time
- Function: Year
- Function: Month
- Function: Day
- Function: Hour
- Function: Minute
- Function: New
- Function: Lookup
- Function: Filter
- Leveraging RPA in your App
- Leveraging Entities in Your App
- Referencing an Entity in Your App
- Replacing an Entity
- Using Apps With Data Service
- Leveraging Queues in Your App
- Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
- Basic Troubleshooting Guide
Referencing an Entity in Your App
To create better, more complex apps, UiPath Apps can connect and interact with entities from UiPath Data Service. Data Service is a persistent data storage service that brings powerful no-code data modeling and storage capabilities to your Robotic Process Automation (RPA) projects. For more information on Data Service, you can check the Data Service guide.
For the moment, there is no infinite scroll for entities.
Once an entity has been created in Data Service, you can reference that entity from an app.
For more information on how to create an entity in Data Service, see Creating an entity.
In the example below, we'll show you how to reference an existing entity into an app.
- From an existing app in App Studio, click on the icon next to the app title.
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Click on Entity to open the entity reference dialog.
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A list of tenants for the current account is displayed. Choose the one that hosts the entities you need and click Next.
- A list of processes, organized by folders, is shown for the currently selected tenant. Highlighting a process displays the contents of the entity.
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Check the checkbox next to the entity you want to use in your app and click Add.
The entity has now been added to your app.
Entities can be bound to the following controls:
- Dropdown
- List
- Tables
- Custom List
In the example below we will bound an entity called Customer to a table.
Before binding an entity to a control in App Studio, make sure that the entity is referenced in your app.