Activities
An activity is a single automation task performed by a bot. As a part of the activity configuration, you must define these properties:
- Common: Properties common for most of the activities. For example: Continue on Error.
- Input: Values required for an activity to run.
- MISC : Display name property.
- Output: Values produced after an activity is run.
This chapter describes each of the pre-defined automation activities that you can use for designing your RPA flow.
To display the list of available activities, click
or click on a particular project in the table on the Home tab. Select the Activities panel to display the pre-defined activities.See, Examples to review few basic workflows using the pre-defined activities.
- Standard mode : All activities are displayed
- Agentless Mode: Activities compatible only with the agentless mode are displayed.
See, Agentless execution.
These activity categories are available:
- Desktop
- Excel
- Flowchart
- HTTPS
- IONAPI
- OCR
- OneDrive
- Primitives
- Programming
- State Machine
- System
- Two Factor Authentication
- Web
- Workflow
Microsoft 365 graph activities
Microsoft 365 graph activities provide a seamless integration between RPA application and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. The activities leverage the MS Graph API that enables the RPA bots to access and interact with various Microsoft 365 services, such as SharePoint, Outlook and so on.
RPA developers can use the Microsoft 365 graph activities to automate tasks. For example, document management and email processing. The activities included in Microsoft 365 are pre-fixed with “graph” as part of the name.
To use the Microsoft 365 graph activities, you must perform these actions:
- Create an Oauth of Microsoft 365 type on the Oauth Provider page ( ). See, OAuth Provider Configuration.
- Authorize the create application on the Authorization page ( . See, Authorizations.
These activities are included in the Microsoft 365 graph:
- Send Outlook Email
- Get outlook Emails
- Move outlook Emails
- Reply to Email
- Forward Outlook Email
- Delete Email
- Download Email Attachment
- OneDrive