So far, you have learned how to record steps to automate and also learn about control flow, and the use of variables and data tables. The most important part was understanding and mastering controls. Unless you are able to identify controls of an application properly, it is not possible to successfully automate a process. Now, in this chapter, we will step up to learn how to use external plugins and extensions. UiPath has many plugins and extensions to ease UI automation, apart from basic extraction and interaction with the desktop screen. These plugins allow us to directly interact with those applications or ease UI automation. Some of the important sections that are going to be covered in this chapter are:

• Terminal plugin
• SAP Automation
• Java plugin
• Citrix Automation
• Mail plugin
• PDF plugin
• Web integration
• Excel and Word plugins
• Credentials management
• Extensions: Java, Chrome, Firefox, and Silverlight