Workflow activities

Last updated Feb 19, 2026

System Activities how-to guides

This page includes guides and resources that can help you learn how to create automations using the activities in the System activity package.

Tutorials

Step-by-step guides on how to create automations from scratch. Each tutorial includes a project that you can download and open in UiPath Studio.

Tutorial	Description	Activities
RegEx Builder Wizard	The RegEx Builder wizard is created to ease your process of building and testing Regular Expression search criteria.
Manage DataTables	Create and print a data table, look up the specified value, clear and print the data table.	Build Data Table, Output Data Table, Clear Data Table, Lookup Data Table,
Match and Replace	Find and match the values corresponding to a defined regular expression and replaces them with a specified value.	Find Matching Patterns, Replace Matching Patterns
Add Data Row/Column	Build a DataTable with columns and rows.	Add Data Row, Add Data Column, Output Data Table
Remove Data Row/Column	Remove rows and columns from a DataTable	Remove Data Column, Remove Data Row, For Each Row in Data Table, Get Row Item
Build and Filter DataTable	Filter and extract data from a DataTable	Build Data Table, Filter Data Table, Output Data Table, For Each Row, Get Row Item
Manipulate Tables	Build a table, merge it, sort the data and remove duplicates.	Merge Data Table, Sort Data Table, Remove Duplicate Rows
Extract Data From Website	Open a web page and display a drop-down list from which to extract the data and display it in a message box.	Open Browser, Find Element, Find Children, For Each, Message Box
Manage Processes	Start an operation, verify it, and then close it.	Start Process, Get Process, Kill Process
User Triggered Activities	Execute activities triggered by the user's actions (mouse click or keystroke).	Monitor Events, Click Image Trigger, Get Source Element, Get Event Info
Working With Files and Folders	Manipulate files and folders, work with conditions, and use the formulas built-in to the Project Notebook in StudioX.	File Exists, Create Folder, Create File, Delete Folder, Move Folder, Move File, Write Text File, Append Line

Studio Web templates

Preconfigured projects that automate common scenarios. You can use a template as is or you can use it as a starting point for a new project to avoid starting from scratch. Templates are also a good way to learn how to automate.

You can find the following templates with activities from this package in Studio Web:

Template	Description	Applications
Extract new lead information from an Outlook email and add it in Salesforce	When receiving an email on Outlook containing information about a lead, extract the relevant data and create a new Salesforce entry.	Microsoft Outlook 365 Salesforce
Extract contents when a zip file is added to OneDrive	Unzips the contents of a newly uploaded zip file from OneDrive to a dedicated folder.	OneDrive
Extract contents when a zip file is added to Google Drive	Unzips the contents of a newly uploaded zip file from Google Drive to a dedicated folder.	Google Drive