- 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
- Clipping region
- Computer Vision Recorder
- Activate
- Anchor Base
- Attach Browser
- Attach Window
- Block User Input
- Callout
- Check
- Click
- Click Image
- Click Image Trigger
- Click OCR Text
- Click Text
- 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
- 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
- Refresh Browser
- Replay User Event
- Restore Window
- Save Image
- Select 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
- 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
- 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
- Enable UI Automation support in DevExpress
- 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
- Directional Swipe
- Draw Pattern
- 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
- Terminal
UI Automation Activities
Manage Text Automation
The example below explains how to automate a text received as an input by using activities like Get Full Text, Get Visible Text, and Find Text Position. 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: Open the Notepad.exe application. -
Drag a Sequence container in the Workflow Designer.
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Create the following variable:
Variable Name
Variable Type
Default Value
question
String
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Drag an Input Dialog activity inside the Sequence container.
- In the Properties
panel, add the expression
"Please ask a 'YES/NO' question"
in the Label field. - Add the value
"Question"
in the Title field. - Add the variable
question
in the Result field.
- In the Properties
panel, add the expression
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Drag an Open Application activity below the Input Dialog activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate window on screen option. Now you can select the desired
application. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate window on screen option. Now you can select the desired
application. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Place a Sequence container inside the Open Application activity.
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Create the following variables:
Variable Name
Variable Type
Default Value
fullText
String
visibleText
String
visibleInfo
System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<UiPath.Core.TextInfo>
position
System.Drawqing.Rectangle
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Drag a Type Into activity inside the Sequence container.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate element inside window option. Now you can select the
desired application. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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In the Properties panel, add the expression `question.ToString + " --
Yes"` in the Text field.
7. Drag a Get Full Text activity and place it below the Type Into activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate element inside window option. Now you can select the
desired application. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- In the Properties
panel, add the variable
fullText
in the Text field.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate element inside window option. Now you can select the
desired application. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Place a Get Visible Text activity underneath the Get Full Text activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate element inside window option. Now you can select the
desired application. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- In the Properties
panel, add the variable
visibleText
in the Text field. - Add the variable
visibleInfo
in the WordsInfo field.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate element inside window option. Now you can select the
desired application. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Drag a Get Position activity below the Get Visible Text activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate element inside window option. Now you can select the
desired application. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- In the Properties
panel, add the variable
position
in the Rectangle field.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate element inside window option. Now you can select the
desired application. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Place a Message Box activity below the Get Position activity.
- In the Properties panel, select the Ok option from the Buttons drop-down list.
- Add the expression
"Text information"
in the Caption field. - Add the expression
"The text '" + fullText.ToString +"' is at position" + position.ToString
in the Text field.
- Run the process. Type a question in the dialog box that is automatically typed into a notepad and then processed. In the end, a message box is displayed with information about the question entered by you.