Glossary

Are you confused by all the strange terms and abbreviations using when developing automations? Are you looking for an RPA dictionary that explains all of these terms in plain English? Then you are in the right place. 

The RPA glossary lists and explains the most common terms used in our tutorials. If you would like to suggest any terms not listed here, please contact us.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Activity

Argument

Automation

Application

Array

Application Exception

Assign

B

Best Practice

Boolean

Business Rule Exception

C

C#

Control Flow

Condition

Conditional Statement

D

Data Collection

DataTable

Do While Loop

Data Type

DateTime

Data Type Conversion

Dictionary

E

Element

Error Handling

Exception

F

Flow Decision

Function

For Each

Flow Switch

For Each Row

G

GenericValue

H

I

If Statement

Int32

Index

Int64

Int16

Integer

J

K

Key

L

List

Loop

M

MailMessage

Math

Method

N

O

Object

Object Modification

Operator

P

Property

Q

R

ReThrow

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Retry Scope

Robot

S

String

Studio

Switch

T

Throw

Try Catch

U

UiPath

V

Value

Visual Basic .Net (VB.Net)

Variable

Visual Basic (VB)

W

While Loop

Workflow

X

Y

Z