- Overview
- UI Automation
- Applications and technologies automated with UI Automation
- Project compatibility
- 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
- 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
- UX-SEC-010 - App/Url Restrictions
- UX-DBP-029 - Insecure Password Use
- UI-PST-001 - Audit Log Level in Project Settings
- UiPath Browser Migration Tool
- Computer Vision Recorder
- Activate
- Anchor Base
- Attach Browser
- Attach Window
- Block User Input
- Call Transaction
- Callout
- Check
- Click
- Click Image
- Click Image Trigger
- Click OCR Text
- Click Picture on Screen
- Click Text
- Click Toolbar Button
- Click Trigger
- Close Application
- Close Tab
- Close Window
- Context Aware Anchor
- Copy Selected Text
- Element Attribute Change Trigger
- Element Exists
- Element Scope
- Element State Change Trigger
- Expand ALV Hierarchical Table
- Expand ALV Tree
- Expand Tree
- Export UI Tree
- Extract Structured Data
- Find Children
- Find Element
- Find Image
- Find Image Matches
- Find OCR Text Position
- Find Relative Element
- Find Text Position
- Get Active Window
- Get Ancestor
- Get Attribute
- Get Event Info
- Get From Clipboard
- Get Full Text
- Get OCR Text
- Get Password
- Get Position
- Get Source Element
- Get Text
- Get Visible Text
- Go Back
- Go Forward
- Go Home
- Google Cloud Vision OCR
- Hide Window
- Highlight
- Hotkey Trigger
- Hover
- Hover Image
- Hover OCR Text
- Hover Text
- Image Exists
- Indicate On Screen
- Inject .NET Code
- Inject JS Script
- Invoke ActiveX Method
- Key Press Trigger
- Load Image
- Maximize Window
- Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR
- Microsoft OCR
- Microsoft Project Oxford Online OCR
- Minimize Window
- Monitor Events
- Mouse Trigger
- Move Window
- Navigate To
- OCR Text Exists
- On Element Appear
- On Element Vanish
- On Image Appear
- On Image Vanish
- Open Application
- Open Browser
- Read Statusbar
- Refresh Browser
- Replay User Event
- Restore Window
- SAP Login
- SAP Logon
- SAP Session Attributes Change Trigger
- Save Image
- Select Dates in Calendar
- Select Item
- Select Menu Item
- Select Multiple Items
- Send Hotkey
- Set Clipping Region
- Set Focus
- Set Text
- Set To Clipboard
- Set Web Attribute
- Show Window
- Start Process
- System Trigger
- Table Cell Scope
- Take Screenshot
- Tesseract OCR
- Text Exists
- Tooltip
- Type Into
- Type Secure Text
- Use Foreground
- Wait Attribute
- Wait Element Vanish
- Wait Image Vanish
- Application Event Trigger
- Check/Uncheck
- Check App State
- Check Element
- Click
- Click Event Trigger
- Close Popup
- Drag and Drop
- Extract Table Data
- For Each UI Element
- Get Attribute
- Get Browser Data
- Get Text
- Get URL
- Go to URL
- Highlight
- Hover
- Inject Js Script
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Keypress Event Trigger
- Mouse Scroll
- Navigate Browser
- Select Item
- Set Browser Data
- Set Runtime Browser
- Set Text
- Take Screenshot
- Type Into
- Use Application/Browser
- 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
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Best practices
When using the Output Connection/Existing Connection properties, make sure to close the Terminal Session when it is no longer needed in the workflow/process.
Leaving the Terminal Session open can have adverse effects on performance and on the execution of other terminal sessions.
- Close Connection: True.
- Existing
Connection: The
TerminalConnection
variable that contains the saved session.
Avoid using the Output Connection/Existing Connection properties in conjunction with the IBM EHLLAPI provider.
These options are used for ensuring the connection persistence between workflows.
Since the connection is already persisted in the terminal emulator, a second layer of persistence is not needed. Also, this avoids having to perform the extra steps to close the connection as described above.
Avoid using a Terminal Session activity nested in another Terminal Session activity.
This also applies to indirect nesting, such as calling from a Terminal Session body a workflow that contains a Terminal Session with the same connection, or calling a library function that contains a Terminal Session with the same connection.
Avoid using field-based activities like Get Field/Set Field. It is not always clear if or how the screen is split into fields, which may lead to confusion.
Different providers may split the same screen in different ways because different APIs are used.
It is safer to use methods that mimic human actions, like combinations of Move Cursor or Send Control Key = Tab followed by Send Keys activities for sending data to the screen.
To retrieve data from the screen, use the Get Screen Area or Get Text At Position activities.
Use the Wait Screen Text activity to make sure the correct screen was loaded before doing any operations on it.
- Close the Terminal Session when it is no longer needed
- Avoid using Output Connection/Existing Connection properties for the IBM EHLLAPI provider
- Avoid nesting Terminal Sessions within other Terminal Sessions
- Avoid using field-based activities
- Use the Wait Screen Text activity
- Use the Get Screen Area activity