Hello, and welcome back to the next module of this course, UiPath Activities and Activities Packages. In the previous module, you had a brief introduction to UiPath Studio and Orchestrator. You also watched a demo about the installation of Studio and took a walk through of its user interface. By the end of this module you'll be able to, explain the activities packages inside Studio, describe how to manage Studio extensions for browsers, describe version control, automation debugging and activities, build Hello World automation project. In this video of the lesson, you will understand UiPath Activities and activity packages. UiPath Activities are building blocks used in UiPath Studio and are designed to help you create a clear and smooth automation process. We need multiple activities with connections between them to create a workflow. The complexity of activities varies from simply defining a variable to configuring them by using custom wizards. All activities are integrated into packages that cover specific areas of interest. For example, activities related to manipulating.xlsx or.CSV files are organized under the Excel activities package, making it easier to navigate through the list of packages. The activities can be managed by using the feeds available at the application level or the project level. Now, let's move on to understanding activity packages. An activity package is a bundle of activities that can help automate a certain application. The good thing is that UiPath Studio includes several activity packages by default as dependencies for all newly created projects. These activity packages are, system activities, mail activities, Excel activities, and UI Automation activities. Let's understand each of these activity packages. System activities. This package contains all the basic activities used for creating automation projects. The activities in this pack enable the robots to manipulate data tables by adding or extracting information and directly interact with directories and files on the user's machine performing any action a human user would. Several activities in this pack help create and execute the automation projects themselves, such as logical operators and expressions. Mail activities. It facilitates the automation of any email related tasks covering various protocols such as IMAP, POP3 or SMTP. UiPath also features activities that are specialized for working with Outlook and Exchange. These includes sending emails, receiving emails, deleting emails, and sending attachments. This pack is compatible with the Microsoft Outlook versions 2010, 2013, 2016, and Office 365. Excel activities. It helps users automate all aspects of Microsoft Excel, an application used by many in all businesses. It contains activities that enable the user to read information from a cell, columns, rows, or ranges, rank to other spreadsheets or workbooks, execute macros and extract formulas. The users can also sort data, color-code it, or append additional information. The last one, UI Automation activities. The activities in this package enable the robots to simulate human interactions, such as performing mouse and keyboard commands or typing and extracting text for basic UI automation. You can use technologies such as OCR or image recognition to perform image and text automation. It enables you to create triggers based on UI behavior, thus enabling the robots to execute certain actions when specific events occur on a machine. You can also perform browser interaction and Window manipulation using this package. That's the end of this video. Next video of this lesson is a demonstration where you will learn how to add more packages using the manage packages button. Thanks for watching.
