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v20.10

The Double Click action has been added to the Action Picker menu in the Recorder.

The window selector is now shown when editing a descriptor in offline mode.

The UI Automation and UI Automation Next activity packages have been merged under the UI Automation v20.10.5 activity package, containing the best of both worlds, now taking advantage of the new Unified Target technology, which brings all of the targeting methods together, making all your automation endeavors much easier.

Also, some activities have been reworked to support the Unified Target technology. However, we haven't removed their old counterparts from the package, you can simply opt whether to use them or not by selecting the Modern experience from the Design tab in Studio Backstage Settings.

Choosing the Modern experience also grants you access to the new App/Web Recorder, which is a single recorder to rule them all, replacing all previous UI Automation recorders with a new, anchor-based, multi-technology element identification system that makes recording your actions considerably easier and faster.

You can install the unified UI Automation activity package even on Studio v2020.4.1 or lower. Doing this displays all the classic and modern activities in the Activities pane. Please note, however, that wizards that require newer Studio/Robot versions than 2020.4.1 are not available in older versions.

The new Modify Text activity updates a specified text by using methods such as find and replace, trim, or concatenation, offering you multiple new ways to manipulate any text files you might need to.

Improved the message displayed for the Type Into activity if the EmptyField field is not filled in.

The GetProcessNameByPid and GetWindowProcessName attributes now return a lowercase value instead of the raw process name, which had to be converted to lowercase.

The Google Cloud Vision OCR activity received a new option, named DetectionMode.

To increase support in dealing with troublesome UIs of WPF and WInForms Windows applications, we have created the new Inject .NET Code activity, which enables you to inject .NET code in any target application.

We have now added support for User Events monitoring for Citrix desktops and apps, as well as automations over RDP.

Take Screenshot - This new activity enables you to take a screenshot of a specified UI element and save it as an image file.

You can now place Use Application/Browser activities one inside another. This gives you more flexibility when designing automations that work with multiple applications.

A new option named Configure every step is available in the App/Web Recorder. When it is enabled, the following changes occur before a step is recorded:

The App/Web Recorder now remembers the last position where you moved it on the screen. When you close it and launch it again, the Recorder opens in the same position where you last left it.

We have developed a completely new scope activity for triggers, called Trigger Scope. This activity can be found in the System activity package v20.10.1 but is usable with all the triggers present in both UI Automation and System activity packages. It offers the required arguments to work with the trigger out of the box, like trigger name and type or its source event. Moreover, it can treat the incoming events sequentially or concurrently while it can exit after one execution.

We have added several new trigger activities, and redesigned some of the existing triggers, moving the most used properties at hand. The new activities are:

Most importantly, we have democratized trigger development. We provide a trigger SDK for everyone to use and develop custom triggers, just like you do with custom activities. You can read more about this here.

Two new Workflow Analyzer rules have been added, as follows:

This release brings an update to the user experience offered by the CV activities by modifying the way screens you are working with are cached. The new cache strategy saves all of the screens you are working on within the CV Screen Scope activity and allows you to perform actions on them at design time in an easier fashion.

The CV Get Text activity now also has the RefreshBefore check box, which, when selected, enables you to scan again using the Computer Vision neural network for any changes since the first CV Screen Scope scan.

The new Table Cell Scope activity enables you to attach to an existing Table UI element and perform multiple actions within it. This activity is specifically tailored for SAP WinGUI automation.

We’re extending the capabilities for creating automation projects for SAP. As such, this release, will make it possible and easy to automate SAP FIORI by building selectors out-of-the-box.

The default value for the SAP Logon activity is now retrieved from the corresponding registry entry.