UI Automation Project Settings

These project settings apply for Modern activities in Cross-platform projects.

Use Project Settings to configure changes at the project level. These global settings impact all activities in the package that have the properties listed below. For more information, see Configuring Activity Project Settings.

Important: The properties configured in Project Settings only take effect in the activities of the workflow if their properties have not been edited. Editing properties manually no longer applies the project settings to them.

To configure the UI Automation Modern project settings, follow these steps:

1. In the Project panel, go to Project Settings.
2. Navigate to Activities Settings > UI Automation.
3. Modify the settings according to what you want to change.
4. Click OK to save changes.

You can reset all settings to their default values or copy all values between the debug and production fields using the Bulk Actions drop-down menu at the top of the window.

Generic

The settings below apply to UI Automation Modern activities in Cross-platform projects that have either one of the following properties.

Property name	Description
Delay after (seconds)	Delay time between the current activity and the next activity.
Delay before (seconds)	Delay time between the previous activity and the current activity.
Timeout (seconds)	How long to wait for the current activity to be executed before throwing an error.
Wait for page load	Before performing the action, wait for the application to become ready to accept input. The following options are available: None - Does not wait for the target to be ready. Interactive - Waits until only a part of the application is loaded. Complete - Waits for the entire application to load.
Capture screenshots	Dictates if screenshots are captured at design time by all the activities that support this feature. If the setting is set to false, the Remove informative screenshot option from the context menu is disabled.
Alter disabled element	If set to True, the Select Item action is executed even if the specified UI element is disabled. This property does not apply if the Input Mode property is set to Hardware Events.
Wait for primary targeting method until timeout	If set to True, this setting allows the primary targeting method to consume its full timeout until any fallback targeting method can be used.
Enable Java automation (preview)	If set to True, you can indicate Java applications. If set to False, you can indicate only Chrome browser windows.
Automatically add UI elements to Object Repository	If set to True, all UI elements are automatically added to Object Repository.

Targeting methods - Web browsers

The settings below apply to indicated targets and anchors for desktop applications.

Property name	Description
Input mode for Edge, Chrome	Select how to execute the action: Simulate - Simulates the click using accessibility APIs. Recommended in browser automation, Java apps, or SAP. More reliable than Hardware Events. Works even if the target application is not in focus. Test if your target application UI element supports this. ChromiumAPI - Performs actions using debugger APIs. Works for Chromium elements only. Sends all text in one go. Works even if the target application is not in focus. For more details, check out the Chromium API page. Note: When the browser is started with Chromium API, a ribbon shows up stating that the browser started in debug mode. This message does not appear if the extension is installed via policy.
Strict selector	If set to True, uses the Strict selector method.
Fuzzy selector	If set to True, uses the Fuzzy selector method.
Computer Vision	If set to True, uses the Computer Vision method. The default value is True.
Ignore selectors with IDX / tableRow / tableCol	Disable the full selector if the target selector has a tableRow, tableCol, or an idx attribute with a value higher than 1 and anchors exist.

Targeting methods - SAP

The settings below apply to indicated targets and anchors for SAP.

Property name	Description
Input mode	Simulate - Simulates the click using accessibility APIs. Recommended in browser automation, Java apps, or SAP. More reliable than Hardware Events. Works even if the target application is not in focus. Test if your target application UI element supports this.
Strict selector	If set to True, uses the Strict selector method.
Fuzzy selector	If set to True, usesthe Fuzzy selector method.
Computer Vision	If set to True, uses the Computer Vision method. The default value is False.
Ignore selectors with IDX / tableRow / tableCol	Disable the full selector if the target selector has a tableRow, tableCol, or an idx attribute with a value higher than 1 and anchors exist.

Targeting methods - Java

The settings below apply to indicated targets and anchors for Java applications.

Property name	Description
Input mode	Simulate - Simulates the click using accessibility APIs. Recommended in browser automation, Java apps, or SAP. More reliable than Hardware Events. Works even if the target application is not in focus. Test if your target application UI element supports this.
Strict selector	If set to True, uses the Strict selector method.
Fuzzy selector	If set to True, uses the Fuzzy selector method.
Computer Vision	If set to True, uses the Computer Vision method. The default value is True.
Ignore selectors with IDX / tableRow / tableCol	Disable the full selector if the target selector has a tableRow, tableCol, or an idx attribute with a value higher than 1 and anchors exist.

Browser

The settings below apply to the Use Browser activity.

Property name	Description
Open	In which cases to open the target application before executing activities in it. The following options are available: If not open Never Always
Close	In which cases to close the target application after executing activities in it. The following options are available: If opened by Use Browser Never Always
User data folder mode	The user data folder mode you want to set. It is used to start the browser with a specific user data folder. Automatic - Picture In Picture mode uses a different folder than the default mode, automatically generated if User data folder path is not set. Default folder - Uses the default browser folder, no matter if it runs in the main or PIP session. Custom folder - Uses the folder specified in User data folder path or an auto generated path if User data folder path is not set.
User data folder path	The path to the user data folder that the browser uses.
Open browser timeout (seconds)	Configure the browser startup timeout.

Keyboard Events

The settings below apply to the Type Into and Keyboard Shortcuts activities.

Property name	Description
Type Into - Click before typing	Whether to click the specified UI element before typing the text, and the type of click to perform. The following options are available: None Single Double
Type Into - Empty field	Whether to delete the existing content before typing the text, and how to clear the field. The following options are available: None Single line [End, Shift + Home, Del] Multi line [Ctrl +A, Del]
Keyboard Shortcuts - Delay between shortcuts (seconds)	Delay time between consecutive special keys.

Other Activities

The settings below apply to the Check App State, Extract Table Data, Highlight, Hover, Inject Js Script, Close Popup, and SAP Logon activities.

Property name	Description
Check App State - Timeout (seconds)	How long to wait for the target element to appear or disappear.
Extract Table Data - Delay between pages (seconds)	If the data spans multiple pages, how long to wait for each page to be loaded.
Highlight - Duration (seconds)	How long to highlight the target element.
Hover - Duration (seconds)	How long to hover over the target element.
Inject Js Script - Execution world	Applies the InjectJs.ExecutionWorld setting globally. For details, see the Inject Js Script activity.
Close Popup - Popup Appear Timeout	The amount of time (in seconds) to wait for a pop-up to appear.
SAP Logon - Number Of Retries	The number of times that the activity is trying to connect to SAP Scripting interface.
SAP Logon - Retry Interval	Specifies the amount of time (in seconds) between each entry.

Robot Logging

Information about the methods used to identify targets and anchors, and the performance of each method at runtime can be saved in the Robot execution logs. The options apply to all supported activities.

Property name	Property Description	Impacted Activities
Log target & anchor search steps	Log the methods used to identify targets and anchors.	Check/Uncheck Check App State Click Extract Table Data Get Text Highlight Hover Keyboard Shortcuts Select Item Type Into
Log targeting methods timings	Log the performance of each targeting method.	Check/Uncheck Check App State Click Extract Table Data Get Text Highlight Hover Keyboard Shortcuts Select Item Type Into
Log audit information	Specifies at what level the logs generated by the Use Browser activity are stored. The following options are available: Off Info Trace	Use Browser