Creating and customizing data tables

This section of the chapter will look at how we can create and customize data tables.

Creating data tables

If you have covered Chapter 5, Learning about Variables and Arguments, you are now familiar with creating variables and arguments in UiPath Studio. The same concept applies to data table variables. The only difference is that, for the Data Type property of the variable/argument, we have to select System.Data.DataTable from the drop-down menu.

Apart from the variable/argument creation, you will also encounter specific activities that help to create data tables:

• Build Data Table: This activity provides a wizard that you can use to graphically build your data table by adding columns, changing column properties (auto increment, null value handling, the maximum length of a value, and the default value), and adding rows with static values. This activity is handy when you explicitly expect data table output with a particular structure...