- Overview
- About the UI Automation activities
- 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
About the UI Automation activities
UI automation activities enable you to interact with graphical user interface elements in software applications. These activities include clicking buttons, typing into text boxes, selecting from dropdown menus, and more. This is done by using UiPath Robots that perform tasks the same way a human user would, making it easier to automate complex business processes and repetitive tasks.
When automating user inferfaces, the initial phase consists in understanding the logical sequence of steps that a human user would take. Then the next phase consists in translating these steps into activities and configuring them. UI automation activities can serve as containers, input, output, and synchronization activities, while the activity properties determine how the UiPath Robots perform an action.
The UI Automation activities include the following packages:
- UI Automation
- Computer Vision Local Server
- Mobile Automation
- Terminal
Use the following table to identify the compatibility between the platform and the activity packages:
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The UI Automation activity package offers an extensive range of capabilities that simulate human behavior. It provides powerful and comprehensive features designed to enhance productivity by building user interface automations, saving time and minimizing errors. Some of the most common use cases are:
- Business process automation, such as customer service, accounting, order processing, employee onboarding, etc.
- Web scraping, such as customer feedback analysis, price comparison, lead generation, product review scraping, etc.
- Automated testing on user interfaces to ensure the applications function correctly
To learn more, go to the UI Automation package section.
The Computer Vision Local Server package contains no activities, but once installed in a project, enables you to use a local AI Computer Vision server.
AI Computer Vision is an AI skill that allows all UiPath Robots to capture the screen and visually identify all the UI elements, rather than relying on selectors or images. It is an algorithm that enables human-like recognition of user interfaces, using a mix of AI, OCR, text fuzzy-matching, and an anchoring system to tie it all together.
To learn more, go to the Computer Vision Local Server package section.
The Mobile Automation activity package offers a robust set of activities for automating mobile application testing and interaction. It provides tools for testing Android and iOS applications, allowing actions like tapping, swiping, entering text, and validating mobile elements, among others. Key features of the activity package include:
- Multi-platform mobile automation - automate mobile applications across Android and iOS platforms
- Mobile element interaction - perform actions like tapping, swiping, scrolling, and entering text on target mobile elements
- Mobile validation and verification - validate mobile element properties, verify expected values, and handle specific scenarios
- Mobile device management - capture device information, manage device orientation, control network connectivity, install and uninstall applications, and handle device-specific settings
Get started with Mobile Automation
The Terminal activity package enables you to connect to a wide range of terminal environments using a direct connection or terminal emulators.
You can then use activities to perform actions such as retrieving text, colors, fields, or screen positions, sending keys, moving the cursor, or waiting for certain text or fields to appear as triggers.
To learn more, go to the Terminal package section.