Tooltips for Activities in Libraries

[techxplorer (Corey Wallis)]

Hi,

When you hover over a UiPath activity in the ‘Activities’ pane a small tool tip appears, giving some additional information about the activity. A screen capture illustrating this is below:

This tool tip isn’t available for our custom activities that we’ve created as workflows in a UiPath library project. A screen capture illustrating this is below:

Does anyone know if it is possible to include some metadata or other information for workflows in our library projects that will display as a tool tip like this? It would help in providing some additional context about our reusable activities.

With thanks.

-Corey

[naitik.s (Naitik Sakhiya)]

Hi @techxplorer

You must add description in custom activity.

Make sure you are using correct syntax.

Have a look below discussion.

Add Description to a Custom Activity

Hi, I have created some Custom Activites and would like to know how I can add a description to the Input-fields? Just like the image below. I have tried adding “[Description(“Sample text”)]” when defining the [Category(“Input”)] but it does not seem to show up when using the activity in UiPath Studio. Thanks! [CustomActivity]

Regards,
Naitik

[techxplorer (Corey Wallis)]

Hi @naitik.s,

Unfortunately I’m not writing a custom activity using custom code. Rather I’m using a UiPath Library project as documented here.

Any thoughts on achieving the same result for workflows that are published as activities via a Library project?

With thanks.

-Corey

[naitik.s (Naitik Sakhiya)]

Hi @techxplorer

Sorry, but I’m not having any clue about that.

Regards,
Naitik

[loginerror (Maciej Kuzmicz)]

Hi @techxplorer

This feature is not yet available, but is on our radar

[techxplorer (Corey Wallis)]

Hi @loginerror,

Thanks for the update. We’ll keep an eye on the release notes to see when this feature has been implemented.

-Corey

[evangemert (Erik van Gemert)]

@loginerror Are custom icons, property descriptions and formatting (like checkboxes and dropdowns) and activity layouts also on said radar?

[loginerror (Maciej Kuzmicz)]

Hi @evangemert

Well, now they are It’s been added to the list of suggestions, devs will decide if or rather when

[loginerror (Maciej Kuzmicz)]

This is doable in 2019.4 (already available in beta channel). See this blog post for more info

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[Mikkel_Nielsen]

It is solved now, in 2019.4 (Right click your Library activity and choose “Properties” to make description.
However, it is still not possible to make tooltips for all the parameters / arguments used by the custom activity.

[x.Rei.Ai.x (Reiner Browning)]

Thanks, loginerror! But I think it’s still not doable, since the update only added a Toolltip to the Activity and not the arguments that are passed to (or from) that activity (example below). Since I am now creating custom activities for my own Framework, I would also like this feature.

Is it possible to move this to a user-submitted idea?

Current for Standard Activities

Current for Custom Activities

[loginerror (Maciej Kuzmicz)]

Hi @x.Rei.Ai.x

Have you tried annotating arguments in the Arguments pane?

[x.Rei.Ai.x (Reiner Browning)]

Just tried it! Annotated arguments in the library project, then published the library. Checked the custom activities it created in a new project, and the annotations did not show as a tooltip when hovering over the arguments’ names in the Properties pane.

Did I not do it right?

[loginerror (Maciej Kuzmicz)]

What is your version of Studio?
See here on the latest 2019.10 Preview:

[x.Rei.Ai.x (Reiner Browning)]

Ah… I’m supposed to be on Enterprise Edition, but somehow managed to activate an Enterprise License with a Community Edition version… I prefer to work with the latest UiPath innovations, so I’m afraid to try to upgrade and lose my Enterprise-Community Edition (lol).

Why does Enterprise Edition have to be a year behind Community Edition all the time

[loginerror (Maciej Kuzmicz)]

Hi @x.Rei.Ai.x

Do you own UiPath license? If so, feel free to check out the Insider’s program
It gives access to the latest MSI Enterprise installer.

Check it out here:

Learn More about the UiPath Insider Preview Program

[x.Rei.Ai.x (Reiner Browning)]

Thanks, man! This looks promising. I will give it a shot. I mostly just want to be able to use the latest Community Edition in an enterprise environment (Enterprise Orchestrator). When I had spoken to UiPath Support last month, they were confused as to how I could have a version 2019.7 of “Enterprise Edition”. I explained to them that I activated our Enterprise License on a Community Edition, after explaining we just want the latest offerings as soon as they’re released.

They never mentioned an Insider Program!

[loginerror (Maciej Kuzmicz)]

Then the Insider’s will be your go-to place. It has a direct link to the MSI installer with the same version as the CE