- 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
Selection Screen
The UI Automation activities enable you to work with UI elements by simulating human interaction. To do this, you can identify UI elements by indicating them on your screen. Usually, a pair of elements are indicated for this purpose: a target and an anchor. This pair is known as a descriptor.
When indicating, the Selection Screen is used to help you perform more advanced tasks, such as pausing the execution, changing the framework that is being used for detection, selecting an anchor, or editing the selector you are using, to name a few.
You can check out the video below for more information.
To indicate an UI element, you must first drag and drop an Use Application/Browser activity into the Workflow Designer in Studio and then indicate the application or the browser you want to automate.
Once the application or the browser is indicated, you can drag any Modern UI Automation activity inside the Use Application/Browser activity and select Indicate in App or Indicate in browser from the application card. This opens the first instance of the Selection Options helper alongside the target application, which enables you to indicate the UI element you want to use.
Next, click the UI element you want to interact with. The element is highlighted green.
In this stage of the Selection Options helper, you can use certain functionalities, as follows:
- Pause selection - You can
pause the configuration for a specified amount of time. From the drop-down menu
you can choose one of these options:
- 1 second
- 3 seconds
- 5 seconds - this is the default value
- 7 seconds
- 9 seconds
F2
as a hotkey.Note: You can scroll in applications that are scrollable without having to pause the Selection Screen. - Hoverable items selection
- You can indicate items that are only visible when hovering over them. You can
use
F6
as a hotkey. - Image region selection -
You can switch from indicating direclty the element you want to use to selecting
a freeform area that contains the target element and which is later processed
via image recognition. You can also drag a selection on the screen to indicate
an area that you want to use as your target. Doing this disables the Strict
selector and Fuzzy selector search methods. You can use
F3
as a hotkey. - Enable Native text - You
can identify all the text labels on the target application that can be viewed
through the Native method.
By clicking the Show all Native elements button, the text labels are highlighted in the target application.
- Enable Computer Vision -
You can enable Computer Vision to automate certain areas or elements especially
when selectors are not available, for instance when automating on a remote
desktop. You can use
F8
as a hotkey.By clicking the Show all CV elements button, all the elements found by Computer Vision are highlighted in the target application.
-
Change UI framework - You can change the technology used to determine the UI elements and their selectors. You can use either the drop-down menu or the
F4
hotkey. The available framework types are:- Auto - Automatically chooses the framework that is considered to be the most suitable for the indicated element. This option is selected by default. Usually work fine with all types of user interfaces.
- Active Accessibility - Uses the Active Accessibility framework, which is Windows specific. It is recommended to use this option with legacy software, when the default option does not work.
- UI Automation - Uses the proprietary UiPath framework. It is recommended to use this option with newer applications, when the default option does not work.
- Validate - Validate the selection you have made. More details in the Validating the descriptor chapter below.
- Confirm - Confirm the changes and close the selection wizard.
- Cancel - Discard all changes and close the selection wizard.
Enter
, or select the blue check mark in the hover menu.
The entire process looks like this:
You can read more about the advanced features of the Selection Screen in the Advanced descriptor configuration page.