- 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
Trigger Scope Example
To better understand the importance of the Element State Change Trigger and Element Attribute Change Trigger activities, we have created a sample automation project which monitors the URL attribute of a web browser and, when changed, moves the automation in a Picture-in-Picture session, monitoring user click actions and saving the UI element as a variable.
In this regard, we need to use the Trigger Scope activity two times: once, to monitor the appearance and element change of the page we navigate on, and second, to monitor the click actions on the page.
Since the first triggers only need to be activated once, we need to set the SchedulingMode property of the Trigger Scope activity to OneTime.
First, we need to know when the web page of interest shows up on screen. In this regard, we use the Element State Change Trigger activity, with the following configuration:
The Event property set to OnAppear
The Selector configured to target the particular web page. In our case, it would look something like this:
<wnd app='chrome.exe' title='Robotic Process Automation | UiPath - Google Chrome' />
<wnd app='chrome.exe' title='Robotic Process Automation | UiPath - Google Chrome' />
Next, we use the Element Attribute Change Trigger to know when the page is changed. We do this by monitoring the Title attribute. This means the activity properties need to be configured as follows:
”title”
(between quotes), because this is the attribute we want to monitor.
The Selector configured, in our case, as follows:
<wnd app='chrome.exe' title='Robotic Process Automation | UiPath - Google Chrome' />
<wnd cls='Intermediate D3D Window' />
<wnd app='chrome.exe' title='Robotic Process Automation | UiPath - Google Chrome' />
<wnd cls='Intermediate D3D Window' />
Optionally, we can add a Log Message activity in the Actions section to log the previously configured triggers.
As soon as these triggers are activated, automation goes into Picture-in-Picture mode. Note that the Picture-in-Picture option from the Debug tab in Studio needs to be enabled.
UIElement
variable. As such, we need to use a second Trigger Scope activity in a new Sequence, which only monitors and responds to click actions.
In the Triggers section of the Trigger Scope, we need to add a Click Trigger activity to monitor the corresponding action, with the following properties:
The MouseButton property set to MouseButton.BTN_LEFT. This monitors the left mouse button clicks.
The TriggerMode property set to TriggerDown. This means the trigger is activated when the left mouse button is pressed (not released).
Lastly, we need to save the UI element on which the click action is performed. In this regard, we add the Get Source Element activity inside the Actions section of the Trigger Scope, with the following properties configured:
The EventInfo property set to args.EventInfo. This means that the trigger arguments are used.
The UiElement property set to an alphanumerical value (not between quotes). This saves the element on which the click action is performed as a UiElement variable.
Run the workflow. The automation tracks the URL attribute of a web browser and, when changed, moves the automation in a Picture-in-Picture session, watching user click actions and saving the UI element as a variable.