- 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
Create and Override Files
The example below explains how to create a new notepad file, edit it, and save it. It presents activities such as Send Hotkey, Click, Type Into, or Element Exists. 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.
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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
FileAlreadyExists
Boolean
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Drag a Send Hotkey activity inside the Sequence container.
- Select the check box for the
Win option and add the value
r
in the Key field. This specifies the command that needs to be executed by the automation process. -
Inside the activity, click the Indicate on screen option. Now you can select the desired application. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- Select the check box for the
Win option and add the value
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Place a Type Into activity below the Send Hotkey activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the desired area. The GIF
below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- Add the expression "notepad.exe" in the Text field. This indicates what text should be written in the selected field.
- Select the check box for the SimulateClick option. This option simulates the click using the technology of the target application and it works in the background.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the desired area. The GIF
below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Drag a Click activity below the Type Into activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the Ok button. The
GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- In the Properties panel, select the check box for the SimulateClick option. This option simulates the click using the technology of the target application, and it works in the background.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the Ok button. The
GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Place a Type Into activity below the Click activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the Ok button. The
GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- Add the expression
"This is a UiAutomation example"
in the Text field. - In the Properties panel, select the check box for the SimulateClick option. This option simulates the click using the technology of the target application and it works in the background.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the Ok button. The
GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Drag a Click activity below the Type Into activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the File option. The
GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- In the Properties panel, select the check box for the SimulateClick option. This option simulates the click using the technology of the target application, and it works in the background.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the File option. The
GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Place another Click activity below the Click activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the File option. The
GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- In the Properties panel, select the check box for the SimulateClick option. This option simulates the click using the technology of the target application, and it works in the background.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the File option. The
GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Place a Type Into activity below the Click activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the field where the file's
name should be introduced. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to
follow:
- Add the expression
"This is a UiAutomation example"
in the Text field. - In the Properties panel, select the check box for the SimulateClick option. This option simulates the click using the technology of the target application and it works in the background.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the field where the file's
name should be introduced. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to
follow:
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Place another Click activity below the Type Into activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the File option. The
GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- In the Properties panel, select the check box for the SimulateClick option. This option simulates the click using the technology of the target application, and it works in the background.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the File option. The
GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Drag an Element Exists activity below the Click activity.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the pop-up message. The GIF
below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- In the Properties
panel, add the variable
FileAlreadyExists
in the Exists field.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the pop-up message. The GIF
below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Place an If activity below the Element Exists activity.
- Add the variable
FileAlreadyExists
in the Condition field.
- Add the variable
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Drag a Click activity inside the Then container.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the File option. The
GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- In the Properties panel, select the check box for the SimulateClick option. This option simulates the click using the technology of the target application, and it works in the background.
- Inside the activity, click
the Indicate on screen option and select the File option. The
GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
- Run the process. The automation process opens a new Notepad document, writes some text inside it and saves it as a new file. If a file with the same name is already present, it overwrites it.