- 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
Automated List Selection
The example below explains how to automate the selection of various items from a list displayed on a web page. It presents activities such as Select Multiple Items and Element Scope. You can find these activities in the UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities package.
This is how the automation process can be built:
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Open Studio and create a new Process.
Note: Download the example in order to have access to theCheckList.html
page. -
Drag a Sequence container in the Workflow Designer.
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Create the following variable:
Variable Name
Variable Type
Default Value
PagePath
GenericValue
 DaysToSelect
System.String[]
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Drag an Assign activity inside the Sequence container. This activity retrieves the path of the current directory.
- Add the variable
PagePath
in the To field. - Add the expression
Environment.CurrentDirectory
in the Value field.
- Add the variable
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Drag another Assign activity and place it below the first Assign activity. This activity retrieves the file path.
- Add the variable
PagePath
in the To field. - Add the expression
Path.Combine(PagePath, "CheckList.html")
in the Value field.
- Add the variable
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Place a third Assign activity below the previous Assign activity. This activity established the days that need to be selected.
- Add the variable
DaysToSelect
in the To field. - Add the expression
{ "Monday","Friday","Saturday" }
in the Value field.
- Add the variable
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Drag an Open Browser activity below the last Assign activity.
- In the Properties panel, select the IE option from the BrowserType drop-down list.
- Add the variable
PagePath
in the Url field. - Select the check box for the NewSession option for starting a new session of the selected browser.
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Drag a Select Multiple Items inside the Open Browser activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate element inside browser option. The GIF below shows all
the steps you need to follow:
- In the Properties
panel, add the variable
DaysToSelect
in the MultipleItems field.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate element inside browser option. The GIF below shows all
the steps you need to follow:
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Place a Message Box activity below the Open Browser activity.
- Add the expression
"Days were selected."
in the Text field. - In the Properties panel, select the check box for the TopMost option. This brings the message box to the foreground.
- Add the expression
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Drag an Element Scope activity below the Message Box activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate element inside browser option. The GIF below shows all
the steps you need to follow:
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate element inside browser option. The GIF below shows all
the steps you need to follow:
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Place a Click activity inside the Do container of the Element Scope activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option. The GIF below shows all the steps you
need to follow:
- In the Properties panel, select the check box for the SimulateClick drop-down list for simulating the click by using the technology of the target application and working in the background.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option. The GIF below shows all the steps you
need to follow:
- Run the workflow. An
.html
page is open, multiple days are selected from the list then the Submit button is clicked.