Recording, a crucial functionality of UiPath studio, enables us to capture user’s action on the screen and translate them into sequences. It saves lot of your time once you want to automate business process.
In this blog, allow us to discuss recording using UiPath in Detail.
Recording using UiPath Studio
You can find Recording option under Design Tab of UiPath Studio. a crucial point about recording is that a number of the actions are non-recordable. Following table will show automatically recordable also as non-recordable actions –

Automatically Recordable Actions	Non-recordable Actions
Left click on buttons	Keyboard shortcuts
Left click on check boxes	Right click on GUI elements
Left click on drop-down lists & other GUI elements.	Mouse hover
Text typing	Use of modifier keys

Types of Recording

UiPath studio provides us the power to settle on from following four sorts of recording −
• Basic recording
• Desktop recording
• Web recording
• Citrix recording
Following screenshot shows how we will use recording feature of UiPath studio −

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Basic Recording

Basic recording is suitable for single activity. It basically generates a full selector for every activity. It doesn’t generate containers hence the automation is slower as compared to the opposite type that generates containers.

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Desktop Recording
As the name suggests, it’s suitable for all kinds of Desktop apps and multiple actions. It generates container and hence it’s faster than Basic recording.

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Web Recording
As name suggests, it’s suitable for all kinds of recording in web apps and browsers. It also generates containers and hence faster than Basic recording too.

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Citrix Recording
This kind of recording is employed to record virtualized environments like VNC, virtual machines etc. It basically requires explicit positioning and allows only image, text and keyboard automation.
Automatic Recording
UiPath studio provides us the power of automatic recording of the actions. It saves many time and may easily customized ad parameterized. Followings are the activities that are generated automatically for the recordable actions −
• Click − because the name suggests, it’s automatically generated once we click on a button while performing Basic or Desktop recording and a link while performing Web recording. UiPath studio provides us the choice to feature a time delay before or after the action.
• Type Into − because the name suggests, it’s automatically generated once we type during a text field or any editable UI element. UiPath studio provides us the choice to feature a time delay before or after the action or between key strokes.
• Check − because the name suggests, it’s automatically generated once you click a radio button or check box. UiPath studio provides us the choice to feature a time delay before or after the action and choose or unselect the check box.
• Select Item − because the name suggests, it’s automatically generated once you select an item from drop-down list or combo box. UiPath studio provides us the choice to feature a time delay before or after the action and alter the chosen item.
Example of Basic Automatic Recording
We can perform Basic automatic recording with the assistance of following steps −
Step1 − Open any application say MS Word or Notepad.
Step2 − Create a replacement Sequence in UiPath Studio Designer panel.
Step3 − Choose Basic Recording from Recording tab under Design ribbon tab. it’ll display Basic Recording toolbar.
Step4 − Now from Basic Recording toolbar click Record button.
Step5 − attend your opened application Ms Word or Notepad, click there and a pop-up window would be displayed as follows −

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Step 6 − Type and press enter. The string is going to be displayed in your application.
Step 7 − For exiting and saving the recording, press twice Esc key.
The above screenshot shows the sequence during which automation are going to be executed.
Step 8 − Now press F5 to execute in UiPath studio. The automation are going to be executed.

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Example of Desktop Automatic Recording
We can perform Desktop automatic recording with the assistance o*f above steps used for Basic Automatic Recording. the sole change, in Step3, is that we’d like to settle on Desktop Recording from Recording tab under Design ribbon tab Desktop Recording toolbar. Following is that the screenshot after implementing Desktop recording. it’s generating a container Attach Window.

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Example of Web Automatic Recording
We can perform Web automatic recording with the assistance of following steps −
Step 1 − First, open any internet browsing application say Google Chrome, Internet explorer or Mozilla.
Step 2 − Next, create a replacement Sequence in UiPath Studio Designer panel.
Step 3 − Now, Choose Web Recording from Recording tab under Design ribbon tab. it’ll display Web Recording toolbar.
Step 4 − Now from Web Recording toolbar click Record button.
Step 5 − attend your open browser, click on the URL bar, a pop-up window would be displayed as follows −

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Step 6 − Type the URL and press enter. The string are going to be displayed within the browser URL bar.
Step 7 − For exiting and saving the recording, press twice Esc key.

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The above screenshot shows the sequence during which automation are going to be executed. it’ll also generate a container as like within the Desktop Automatic Recording.
Step 8 − Now press F5 to execute in UiPath studio. The automation are going to be executed.
Manual Recording
As we all know that there are some actions that can’t be handled by automatic recording. they’re called single actions or manual recordings. we will find these manual recording under the Action toolbar of all kinds of recordings, Basic, Desktop, Web and Citrix.
Types of Manual Recordings
The followings are the kinds of manual recordings −
Start and Stop an App or Browser
These manual recording or single actions enables us to open also as close an app or browser. you’ll find these options in Desktop and web recording toolbar respectively.
Click
With the assistance of such quite single actions we will record
• Clicks on the desktop or a running application
• Selecting an option from a drop-down list or combo box
• Selecting a check box or a radio button
Type
These quite manual recordings or single actions require input from keyboard. It includes key presses or keyboard shortcuts.
Copy
As the name suggests, this single action enables us to repeat a specific text from an open application or an internet browser. The copied text is often used later in our project. Option of screen scraping, under copy menu, enables us to extract images or text from browser.
Mouse Elements
As the name suggests, it enables us to imitate mouse movements like right-clicking or double clicking.
Windows Elements
Such quite single actions enable us to shut the window or shift the main target to a special window.
Text
Text manual recording enable us to −
• Hover over text to form tooltips visible for scraping
• Right click to form the context menu visible
• Copy and paste text
Image
Image manual recording enable us to −
• Wait for a specified image to disappear
• Finding a selected image in an app or website
• Right click a picture
• Hover over a picture
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