Tooltips for Activities in Libraries

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

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Hi @techxplorer

You must add description in custom activity.

Make sure you are using correct syntax.

Have a look below discussion.

Regards,
Naitik

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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

Hi @techxplorer

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

Regards,
Naitik

Hi @techxplorer

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

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Hi @loginerror,

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

-Corey

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

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Hi @evangemert

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

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

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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. :frowning: :frowning: :frowning:

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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? :slight_smile:

Current for Standard Activities
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Current for Custom Activities
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Hi @x.Rei.Ai.x

Have you tried annotating arguments in the Arguments pane? :slight_smile:

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.

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Did I not do it right?

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

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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).

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

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Hi @x.Rei.Ai.x

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

Check it out here:

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! :laughing:

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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 :slight_smile:

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