CUSTOM ACTIVITIES - Installation Guide 

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Table of Contents
1. ​How to Create your Private Feed in UiPath Go! (Studio 2018.3 and higher)

2. UiPath Studio Setup (Studio 2018.3 and higher)

3. How to Add a Custom Activity in UiPath Studio (manual installation - all versions supported)

1.How to Create your Private Feed in UiPath

Go! (Studio 2018.3 and higher)
 

How to setup your feed:

1. Access the Go! Site at ​https://go.uipath.com​ and login.
2. In the right-upper corner, click/hoover on the user name and a menu will appear
3. Select “My Account” from the menu

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4. On the new page, go to “My Account” menu and select “Studio Integration”.

5. In the new page, click the “Create Feed” button

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6. A new message will appear “User was successfully updated”.

7. Reload the page (click again the menu button “Studio Integration”) and a feed URL for your
studio will be displayed (no 1)

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8. If you need, you can delete the feed just by clicking the “Delete Feed”
button placed under the URL of the feed (no 2).

How to add a component to your feed 

1. You can either go to “Browse components” menu or open any component you need just by
clicking on it.

2. Click on Download button (in the right side of the page) and choose the “Add to studio”
option

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The new component is now available for install in your UiPath Studio. 

2. UiPath Studio Setup (Studio 2018.3 and

higher)
How to setup the feed in Studio
1. Open UiPath Studio
2. Click on the “Manage Packages” icon indicated in the picture

3. In the new window select “Settings” from the left menu (arrow no 1)

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4. Click on “+” button (no 2) to add a new feed source

5. Write the name of the feed (for example “Go!”) on the “Name” area (no 3)
6. Write the link to the feed on the “Source” area (no 4)
7. Press the “Update” button to add your new source (no 5)
8. Press the “OK” button to close the window (no 6)

Now, the new feed source is available in your Studio and you will have the packages visible and 
ready for install 

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 3. How to Add a Custom Activity in UiPath
Studio (manual installation - all versions
supported)
 

How to setup your nuget package 

1. Create a folder in which you will place future custom activities, for example
“C:\Users\%username%\source\repos\ActivitiesOutput” if you also develop custom
activities or “C:\Users\%username%\ActivitiesOutput” if you only use them

2. [Optional: Download component from UiPath Go! To above location]

3. Copy your activity nuGet package (it should be a .nupkg file) into ActivitiesOutput folder

4. Open UiPath Studio, open any project and go to “Activities” (no 1) and afterword click on the
package icon (no 2).

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5. In the new window, right-click on the white space from the left menu

6. Click on the button that appear

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 7. A new window will be displayed. Pres the “+” button (no 1), write a name in Name text area
and browse for the ActivitiesOutput directory created earlier and press OK on “Browse for
Folder” window

8. Click on Apply and OK 

9. Now go to “Available” node from the left menu and the new option will appear

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10. From here you can install the copied package pressing the Install button (no 3)

11. The new installed activity will be shown into the Activities area from Studio and it can be
used

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