- 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
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.