- 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
Web Browsing
The example below explains how to automate the action of browsing a webpage by highlighting and showing the content of all items from the header menu. It presents activities such as Open Browser, Highlight, and Hover. 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.
- Open Internet Explorer and
navigate to
www.uipath.com
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Drag a Sequence container in the Workflow Designer.
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Create the following variable:
Variable Name
Variable Type
Default Value
menuItems
System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<UiPath.Core.UiElement>
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Drag an Open Browser activity inside the Sequence container.
- Add the browser's path in the
Url field, for this example being
www.uipath.com
.
- Add the browser's path in the
Url field, for this example being
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Drag a Find Children activity inside the Do container of the Open Browser activity.
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Inside the activity, click the Indicate on screen option. Select the header of the menu like in the following screenshot:
- In the Properties
panel, add the variable
menuItems
in the Children field.
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Drag a For Each activity and place it below the Find Children activity.
- Add the value
item
in the ForEach field and the variablemenuItems
in the Values field.
- Add the value
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Select the Body container of the For Each activity and create the following variable:
Variable Name
Variable Type
Default Value
aanameValue
String
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Place a Highlight activity inside the Body container.
- In the Properties panel, select the option Target from the Target drop-down list.
- Add the value
item
in the Element field. This value selects and highlights each option available in the menu. - Select the option Coral from the Color drop-down list. This specifies what color to use for the highlight.
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Drag a Hover activity below the Highlight activity.
- In the Properties
panel, add the value
item
in the Element field. This value hovers all options available on the menu. - Select the check box for the SendWindowMessages option. When this option is selected, the hover command is executed by sending a specific message to the target application.
- In the Properties
panel, add the value
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Place a Hover activity below the For Each activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate element inside browser option. Select the header of the
menu like in the following GIF:
- In the Properties panel, select the check box for the SendWindowMessages option. When this option is selected, the hover command is executed by sending a specific message to the target application.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate element inside browser option. Select the header of the
menu like in the following GIF:
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Drag a Close Tab activity below the last Hover activity.
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Your workflow should look like in the following screenshot:
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Run the process. A new Internet Explorer is opened and navigates to the www.uipath.com address, where it highlights and shows the content of all items from the header menu.