- 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
Web Browsing
The example below explains how to automate the action of browsing a webpage by highlighting and showing the content of all items from the header menu. It presents activities such as Open Browser, Highlight, and Hover. You can find these activities in the UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities package.
This is how the automation process can be built:
- Open Studio and create a new Process.
- Open Internet Explorer and
navigate to
www.uipath.com
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Drag a Sequence container in the Workflow Designer.
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Create the following variable:
Variable Name
Variable Type
Default Value
menuItems
System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<UiPath.Core.UiElement>
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Drag an Open Browser activity inside the Sequence container.
- Add the browser's path in the
Url field, for this example being
www.uipath.com
.
- Add the browser's path in the
Url field, for this example being
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Drag a Find Children activity inside the Do container of the Open Browser activity.
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Inside the activity, click the Indicate on screen option. Select the header of the menu like in the following screenshot:
- In the Properties
panel, add the variable
menuItems
in the Children field.
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Drag a For Each activity and place it below the Find Children activity.
- Add the value
item
in the ForEach field and the variablemenuItems
in the Values field.
- Add the value
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Select the Body container of the For Each activity and create the following variable:
Variable Name
Variable Type
Default Value
aanameValue
String
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Place a Highlight activity inside the Body container.
- In the Properties panel, select the option Target from the Target drop-down list.
- Add the value
item
in the Element field. This value selects and highlights each option available in the menu. - Select the option Coral from the Color drop-down list. This specifies what color to use for the highlight.
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Drag a Hover activity below the Highlight activity.
- In the Properties
panel, add the value
item
in the Element field. This value hovers all options available on the menu. - Select the check box for the SendWindowMessages option. When this option is selected, the hover command is executed by sending a specific message to the target application.
- In the Properties
panel, add the value
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Place a Hover activity below the For Each activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate element inside browser option. Select the header of the
menu like in the following GIF:
- In the Properties panel, select the check box for the SendWindowMessages option. When this option is selected, the hover command is executed by sending a specific message to the target application.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate element inside browser option. Select the header of the
menu like in the following GIF:
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Drag a Close Tab activity below the last Hover activity.
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Your workflow should look like in the following screenshot:
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Run the process. A new Internet Explorer is opened and navigates to the www.uipath.com address, where it highlights and shows the content of all items from the header menu.