Studio release notes

You can now create a new project from a template directly from a Solution. Right-click the Solution in the Explorer panel and select Create Automation from Template. Then, select a template and configure it further. The new project is created as part of the solution folder. This makes it easier to get started with a template without requiring you to create it outside of the solution.

The same template selection experience is available backstage, with each template card exposing a version dropdown and additional information — full description, creator, and last updated date — available on hover.

Non-RPA projects in the Solution Explorer are no longer rendered in a disabled state. Opening a file from a non-RPA project shows a contextual banner explaining the limited editing experience and providing a direct link to edit the project in Studio Web.

The Solution Explorer project icons in Studio Desktop have been updated to match the icons used in Studio Web for Agentic Process, Apps, Agent, API Workflow, and other project types. The JSON file icon has also been refreshed.

Property editing in Compact Mode previously required opening the full Properties Panel for every change. Clicking a pill of an activity opens the Properties Panel pre-focused on the matching field, ready for input.

UI Automation cards allow you to indicate the target directly from the cards. When the project uses Object Repository, the activity card shows the activity name (e.g., Click, Get Text) together with a pill displaying the descriptor name, so it’s clear at a glance which element the activity targets.

In Compact Mode, the branches of Try/Catch, Switch, and Else If now use a merged-container treatment: each branch’s header (condition, case, or exception filter) and body are combined into a single container per branch, reducing the length of the designer.

When a Catch block in a Try/Catch is selected, the Properties panel now also exposes the exception type as an editable property. Changing it from the Properties panel updates the activity on the canvas, and the reverse.

You can now create solutions directly in Studio. Whether you start with a new Process or with a Template, you now have an option to create it part of a Solution by enabling Create new solution.

As part of this work, Add file, Add folder, and Open File Location are now available across all project types in the Explorer, not just the currently open RPA project.

Right-click activities to use Mark as Private or Mark as Public to control whether the activity's values appear in execution logs.