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v21.4

The Extract Table Data activity has been revamped, containing several new properties, as well as a new wizard that helps guide you through the data extraction process. This whole feature can also be used from the new Table Extraction recorder, which appears in the Ribbon if you have selected the Modern Experience. Structured data has never been easier to extract, thanks to the multitude of new features that this release brings!

The new Verify Execution feature allows you to ensure that the action (a Click or Type, for example) was correctly executed at runtime – that it had the expected outcome. This feature can be configured from the following activities and from Project Settings:

The Use Application/Browser activity has a new property field, Incognito/private window, which enables you to open the browser session in incognito or private mode.

The new multi-selector search is now used for all searches, both at run time and design time. This works under the hood, so it won’t impact your experience with the product, but simply yield better results overall.

You can now define an area you want to automate by dragging when using the App/Web Recorder feature, thus enabling you to use Image automation in your workflows.

To increase usability and customizability, certain settings, such as the timer set for Pause (F2) when indicating an element on screen, now persist per machine, across sessions.

You can now indicate dynamic targets, which are no longer dependent on their text labels. This enables you to work with elements that have dynamic text labels, or with specific elements in search lists, in regard to their position in the search rather than their text labels. This is done by harnessing the power of the Fuzzy Selector, which can now also use wildcards for extra fuzziness.

The new Get URL activity enables you to retrieve the URL of a web page and reuse it in your automation, thus making web automation much easier.

Targets that are no longer available, such as apps that are closed, can now be edited in Offline Mode, so you don’t need to pass through the entire process of bringing up the same window again to edit a single character in your selector.

The Check App State activity can now also be used outside the Use Application/Browser activity for situations such as connecting to a VPN, or starting a Virtual Machine.

The App/Web Recorder can now be used with any app on you machine, without the need for switching between apps. We have adapted the recorder to your needs, and it can now automatically determine the fact that you are indicating actions in a different app and behave accordingly, automatically recording your steps.

To make your automation life easier, indicating certain types of apps with the Use Application/Browser now autofills the Arguments property, making it easier to use Java apps, PDFs, Office apps, or Windows apps.

You can now use variables and arguments directly in the Selection Options screen when editing the Selector and Fuzzy Selector.

The Click and Hover activities now have the CursorMotionType property, which enables you to select the type of motion you want the mouse to use while performing the action, be it Instant or Smooth.

Wildcards are now supported in the Item field of the Select Item activity. Also, a new property field has been added to this activity, AlterIfDisabled, which performs the selection action even if the target element is disabled.

Due to the fact that some actions, such as Double-Click failed when performed with the Simulate method, they are now performed with the Hardware Events method by default, thus avoiding the situation when the workflow fails silently.

The Extract Structured Data activity now supports integration with the Object Repository.

The Enforce Element Visibility check box has been implemented in the Selection Options window, enabling users to work exclusively with visible UI elements.

The App/Web Recorder now supports using modifier keys when recording actions.

The Wait for ready property has been renamed to Wait for page load in all of the Modern UI Automation activities, better reflecting its purpose.

The Click and Hover activities now have the CursorMotionType property, which enables you to select the type of motion you want the mouse to use while performing the action, be it Instant or Smooth.

Wildcards are now supported in the Item field of the Select Item activity. Also, a new property field has been added to this activity, AlterIfDisabled, which performs the selection action even if the target element is disabled.

The Table Cell Scope activity has a new property field, Table Row Index, which displays the index of the found row, and is useful in cases of tables that have the first empty row.

Java Native Scraping now retrieves the bounds of words when the Get Words Info check box is selected.

The Attach Browser activity has a new option in the BrowserType property, suitable for other Chromium-based browsers.

Support has been added for websites that use Shadow DOM for their UI elements. These pages can now be automated using Google Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.

When using variables in selectors, changes made in the Variables Panel now also take effect in the selectors. Please note that this does only apply to variables that are modified after upgrading to this version of the UI Automation package, so this does not cause a breaking change in older workflows.

The Key drop-down in the body of the Send Hotkey activity now supports auto-searching hotkeys in the list when it is expanded.

UiPath Studio supports now the latest version of SAP WinGUI 7.70 with all new features such as a new visual theme, Quartz, support for alternative browser control (Microsoft Edge), as well as multi-monitor scaling support.

Data scraping and Screen scraping are supported for data extraction for SAP ALV Tables. One or multiple tables on the SAP screen can be extracted.

The Table Cell Scope activity can be now used for SAP FIORI table automation.

The CV Click, CV Hover, and CV Check activities now have the CursorMotionType property, which enables you to select the type of motion you want the mouse to use while performing the action, be it Instant or Smooth.

The Computer Vision activities now support using only OCR, if you configure them as such, ensuring an overall better user experience.

A better Change Detection mechanism has been implemented in the Computer Vision activities, minimizing the number of full CV analyses required and optimizing the process.

The CV Get Text activity now displays a text result preview in the designer, displaying the text that is going to be extracted.

UI Explorer has a new feature that delays restoring the UI Explorer window until after the selector data is loaded. This is meant to be used with UI elements that auto-close on losing focus.