- Overview
- UI Automation
- UI-ANA-016 - Pull Open Browser URL
- UI-ANA-017 - ContinueOnError True
- UI-ANA-018 - List OCR/Image Activities
- UI-DBP-006 - Container Usage
- UI-DBP-013 - Excel Automation Misuse
- UI-DBP-030 - Forbidden Variables Usage In Selectors
- ST-DBP-021 - Hardcoded Timeout
- UI-PRR-001 - Simulate Click
- UI-PRR-002 - Simulate Type
- UI-PRR-003 - Open Application Misuse
- UI-PRR-004 - Hardcoded Delays
- UI-REL-001 - Large Idx in Selectors
- UI-SEC-004 - Selector Email Data
- UI-SEC-010 - App/Url Restrictions
- UI-USG-011 - Non Allowed Attributes
- SY-USG-013 - Private File Invoke
- SY-USG-014 - Incorrect Execution Template Placeholders
- Applications and technologies automated with UI Automation
- UiPath Browser Migration Tool
- Computer Vision Recorder
- Click
- Hover
- Type Secure Text
- Send Hotkey
- Type Into
- Check
- Select Item
- Select Multiple Items
- Get Text
- Set Text
- Activate
- Highlight
- Set Focus
- Anchor Base
- Context Aware Anchor
- Find Relative Element
- Indicate On Screen
- Element Exists
- Find Element
- Wait Element Vanish
- Find Children
- Get Ancestor
- Element Scope
- Get Attribute
- Set Clipping Region
- Get Position
- Take Screenshot
- Wait Attribute
- On Element Appear
- On Element Vanish
- Click Text
- Hover Text
- Find Text Position
- Get Full Text
- Get Visible Text
- Extract Structured Data
- Text Exists
- Click OCR Text
- Hover OCR Text
- Get OCR Text
- Find OCR Text Position
- Microsoft OCR
- Microsoft Project Oxford Online OCR
- Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR
- Tesseract OCR
- Google Cloud Vision OCR
- OCR Text Exists
- Click Image
- Hover Image
- Find Image Matches
- Image Exists
- Find Image
- Wait Image Vanish
- On Image Appear
- On Image Vanish
- Load Image
- Save Image
- Attach Browser
- Close Tab
- Go Back
- Go Forward
- Go Home
- Inject JS Script
- Navigate To
- Open Browser
- Refresh Browser
- Set Web Attribute
- Attach Window
- Close Window
- Get Active Window
- Hide Window
- Maximize Window
- Minimize Window
- Move Window
- Restore Window
- Show Window
- Export UI Tree
- Invoke ActiveX Method
- Inject .NET Code
- Click Trigger
- Key Press Trigger
- Click Image Trigger
- System Trigger
- Hotkey Trigger
- Mouse Trigger
- Get Event Info
- Monitor Events
- Get Source Element
- Replay User Event
- Block User Input
- Use Foreground
- Element Attribute Change Trigger
- Element State Change Trigger
- Callout
- Copy Selected Text
- Get From Clipboard
- Set To Clipboard
- Close Application
- Open Application
- Start Process
- Get Password
- Tooltip
- Click Picture on Screen
- Click Toolbar Button
- Read Statusbar
- Select Dates in Calendar
- Select Menu Item
- Expand Tree
- Call Transaction
- SAP Logon
- SAP Login
- Table Cell Scope
- SAP Session Attributes Change Trigger
- Expand ALV Tree
- Expand ALV Hierarchical Table
- Use Application/Browser
- Check App State
- Check/Uncheck
- Click
- Extract Table Data
- Get Text
- Get URL
- Go to URL
- Highlight
- Hover
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Navigate Browser
- Select Item
- Take Screenshot
- Type Into
- Get Attribute
- Get Browser Data
- Set Browser Data
- Mouse Scroll
- Inject Js Script
- Drag and Drop
- For Each UI Element
- Application Event Trigger
- Click Event Trigger
- Keypress Event Trigger
- Set Text
- Check Element
- Fill Form
- Perform browser search and retrieve results using UI Automation APIs
- Web Browsing
- Find Images
- Click Images
- Trigger and Monitor Events
- Create and Override Files
- HTML Pages: Extract and Manipulate Information
- Window Manipulation
- Automated List Selection
- Find and Manipulate Window Elements
- Manage Text Automation
- Load and Process Images
- Manage Mouse Activated Actions
- Automate Application Runtime
- Automated Run of a Local Application
- Browser Navigation
- Web Automation
- Trigger Scope Example
- Computer Vision Local Server
- Mobile Automation
- Release notes
- Project compatibility
- Get Log Types
- Get Logs
- Get Page Source
- Get Device Orientation
- Get Session Identifier
- Install App
- Manage Current App
- Manage Other App
- Open DeepLink
- Open URL
- Mobile Device Connection
- Positional Swipe
- Press Hardware Button
- Set Device Orientation
- Take Screenshot
- Take Screenshot Part
- Element Exists
- Execute Command
- Get Attribute
- Get Selected Item
- Get Text
- Set Selected Item
- Set Text
- Swipe
- Tap
- Type Text
- Draw Pattern
- Terminal
Browser Navigation
The example below explains how to open a web page and navigate back and forward through pages. It presents activities such as Navigate To, Go Forward, and Go Back. You can find these activities in the UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities package.
This is how the automation process can be built:
- Open Studio and create a new Process.
- Drag a Sequence container in the Workflow Designer.
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Add an Open Browser activity inside the Sequence container.
- Add the expression
"https://www.name-generator.org.uk/quick/"
in the Url field. - Open Internet Explorer and navigate to https://www.name-generator.org.uk/quick/.
- Add the expression
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Select the Do container of the Open Browser activity and create the following variables:
Variable Name
Variable Type
Default Value
RandomName
GenericValue
 nameHash
GenericValue
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Add a Highlight activity inside the Do container of the Open Browser activity.
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Inside the activity, click Indicate element inside browser, and then select a name from the web page. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Add a Get Text activity below the Highlight activity.
- Inside the activity, click
Indicate element inside browser, and then select the same name as
in the previous step. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- In the Properties
panel, add the variable
randomName
in the Value field.
- Inside the activity, click
Indicate element inside browser, and then select the same name as
in the previous step. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Add a Navigate To activity below the Get Text activity.
- Add the expression
"http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php"
in the Url field. - In Internet Explorer, navigate to http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php.
- Add the expression
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Add a Type Into activity below the Navigate To activity.
- Add the variable
randomName
in the Text field. -
Inside the activity, click Indicate element inside browser, and then select the String text box. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- Add the variable
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Add a Highlight activity inside the Do container of the Open Browser activity.
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Inside the activity, click Indicate element inside browser, and then select the displayed MD5 hash. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Add a Get Text activity below the Highlight activity.
- Inside the activity, click
Indicate element inside browser, and then select the displayed
MD5 hash. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- In the Properties
panel, add the variable
nameHash
in the Value field.
- Inside the activity, click
Indicate element inside browser, and then select the displayed
MD5 hash. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Add a Message Box activity below the Get Text activity.
- Add the following expression
in the Text field:
"MD5 Hash for '" + randomName + "' is '" + nameHash + "'"
.
- Add the following expression
in the Text field:
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Add a Highlight activity below the Message Box activity.
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Inside the activity, click Indicate element inside browser, and then select the browser Back button. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Add a Go Back activity below the Highlight activity.
- In Internet Explorer, go back to https://www.name-generator.org.uk/quick/.
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Add a Highlight activity below the Message Box activity.
- Inside the activity, click Indicate element inside browser, and then select another name. You can follow the instructions explained in the GIF at step 5.
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Add a Get Text activity below the Highlight activity.
- Inside the activity, click
Indicate element inside browser, and then select the same name as
in the previous step. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- In the Properties
panel, add the variable
randomName
in the Value field.
- Inside the activity, click
Indicate element inside browser, and then select the same name as
in the previous step. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Add a Go Forward activity below the Highlight activity.
- In Internet Explorer, go forward to http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php.
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Add a Type Into activity below the Go Forward activity.
- Add the variable
randomName
in the Text box. - Inside the activity, click Indicate element inside browser, and then select the String text box. You can follow the instructions explained in the GIF at step 8.
- Add the variable
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Add a Highlight activity below the Type Into activity.
- Repeat the instructions from step 9.
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Add a Get Text activity below the Highlight activity.
- Repeat the instructions from step 10.
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Add a Message Box activity below the Get Text activity.
- Repeat the instructions from step 11.
- Add a Close Window activity below the Message Box activity.
- Run the process for opening a browser, navigating back and forward between pages, and displaying information from the pages.