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- Release Notes
- Getting Started
- Setup and Configuration
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- Types of Workflows
- Control Flow
- File Comparison
- Automation Best Practices
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- Debugging
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- The Diagnostic Tool
- Workflow Analyzer
- About Workflow Analyzer
- ST-NMG-001 - Variables Naming Convention
- ST-NMG-002 - Arguments Naming Convention
- ST-NMG-004 - Display Name Duplication
- ST-NMG-005 - Variable Overrides Variable
- ST-NMG-006 - Variable Overrides Argument
- ST-NMG-008 - Variable Length Exceeded
- ST-NMG-009 - Prefix Datatable Variables
- ST-NMG-011 - Prefix Datatable Arguments
- ST-NMG-012 - Argument Default Values
- ST-NMG-016 - Argument Length Exceeded
- ST-NMG-017 - Class name matches default namespace
- ST-DBP-002 - High Arguments Count
- ST-DBP-003 - Empty Catch Block
- ST-DBP-007 - Multiple Flowchart Layers
- ST-DPB-010 - Multiple instances of [Workflow] or [Test Case]
- ST-DBP-020 - Undefined Output Properties
- ST-DBP-021 - Hardcoded Timeout
- ST-DBP-023 - Empty Workflow
- ST-DBP-024 - Persistence Activity Check
- ST-DBP-025 - Variables Serialization Prerequisite
- ST-DBP-026 - Delay Activity Usage
- ST-DBP-027 - Persistence Best Practice
- ST-DBP-028 - Arguments Serialization Prerequisite
- ST-USG-005 - Hardcoded Activity Arguments
- ST-USG-009 - Unused Variables
- ST-USG-010 - Unused Dependencies
- ST-USG-014 - Package Restrictions
- ST-USG-020 - Minimum Log Messages
- ST-USG-024 - Unused Saved for Later
- ST-USG-025 - Saved Value Misuse
- ST-USG-026 - Activity Restrictions
- ST-USG-027 - Required Packages
- ST-USG-028 - Restrict Invoke File Templates
- ST-USG-032 - Required Tags
- ST-USG-034 - Automation Hub URL
- Variables
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- Introduction
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- UiPathRemoteRuntime.exe is not running in the remote session
- UiPath Remote Runtime blocks Citrix session from being closed
- UiPath Remote Runtime causes memory leak
- UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities package and UiPath Remote Runtime versions mismatch
- The required UiPath extension is not installed on the remote machine
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- Known issues specific to MV3 extensions
- List of extensions for Chrome
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- Known issues specific to MV3 extensions
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Studio User Guide
Last updated Nov 18, 2024
Non-greedy search
The non-greedy search makes it possible to identify the target element from a pool of similar applications, matching the attributes you specify. It needs to be included in the top-level tag of a selector.
If a generated selector contains the
idx attribute, its value is set by default to *.
Introducing non-greedy search in your selectors instructs it to search through all the active windows or browser instances which match the top-level tags of your selector, and not just the window instances in focus.
Non-greedy search makes use of the
idx() attribute, which needs to
be included in the top-level tag, as follows:
|
Option |
Description |
|---|---|
|
|
Searches through all active window instances for the element matching the top-level tag attributes. The
<idx='1'> option only searches through
window instances in focus.
|
Currently,
non-greedy search is supported for the following selector types:
| Selector type | Support |
|---|---|
<wnd> | |
<html> | |
<webctrl> | |
<java> | |
<ctrl> | |
<uia> | |
<sap> | |
<silverlight> | |
Selectors inside the following containers:
| |
| Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications |
For the purpose of the example, let's assume that we want to build an automation process which interacts with the Windows 10 Calculator app.
However, there are two active instances, a Standard Calculator and a Programmer Calculator.
We only need to interact with the Standard Calculator, so we introduce the
idx='*' option in the top-level tag, in our case
<wnd>.
The following selector is generated, which returns the Calculator instance we are looking for:
<wnd app='applicationframehost.exe' appid='Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App'
title='Calculator' idx='*' />
<uia cls='LandmarkTarget' />
<uia automationid='ProgrammerOperators' cls='NamedContainerAutomationPeer' name='Radix selection' />
<uia automationid='hexButton' cls='RadioButton' name='HexaDecimal 0 ' /><wnd app='applicationframehost.exe' appid='Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App'
title='Calculator' idx='*' />
<uia cls='LandmarkTarget' />
<uia automationid='ProgrammerOperators' cls='NamedContainerAutomationPeer' name='Radix selection' />
<uia automationid='hexButton' cls='RadioButton' name='HexaDecimal 0 ' />
