- 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
- Close Popup
- 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
- 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
Extract Table Data
UiPath.UIAutomationNext.Activities.NExtractData
Extracts structured information such as table data or web search results that can span multiple pages.
Follow the Table Extraction wizard to indicate what information to extract. To find out more about the way to use the wizard, view the Table Extraction page.
This activity must be added inside a Use Application/Browser activity.
To use this activity outside a Use Application/Browser activity, you need to provide an Input element.
This activity is compatible with Object Repository.
Designer panel
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Click Indicate target on screen to indicate the data to extract by following the Table Extraction wizard.
After you indicate the target, select the Menu button to access the following options:
- Edit extract data - Open the Table Extraction wizard to configure the extracted data.
- Test extraction - Run a test of the data extraction with the current configuration. The result is displayed in a preview data window.
- Extract data wizard - Open again the Table Extraction wizard to extract data.
- Remove informative screenshot - Remove the screenshot of the target application or web page.
- Add to Object Repository - Add the current UI element to a library project, from where it can be reused throughout your automation process.
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Extract to - Where to save the extracted data.
Properties panel
Common
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Continue on error - Specifies if the automation should continue even when the activity throws an error. This field only supports
Boolean
values (True, False). The default value is False. As a result, if the field is blank and an error is thrown, the execution of the project stops. If the value is set to True, the execution of the project continues regardless of any error. -
Delay after - Delay (in seconds) between the time this activity is completed and the time the next activity begins any operations. The default value is 0.3 seconds. Adding a delay between activities ensures that one activity has enough time to complete before the next activity begins.
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Delay before - Delay (in seconds) between the time the previous activity is completed and the time this activity begins performing any operations. The default value is 0.2 seconds. Adding a delay between activities ensures that one activity has enough time to complete before the next activity begins.
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Display name - The name displayed for the activity in the Designer panel. A display name is automatically generated when you indicate a target.
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Timeout - Specify the amount of time (in seconds) to wait for the activity to be executed before throwing an error. The default value is 30 seconds.
Input
- ExtractMetadata - An XML string that enables you to define what data to extract from the indicated web page.
- Table settings - The table settings used when extracting data.
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Target - The target element. Target element must be set. Before indicating on screen, this field is set to
(null)
. Once the target is indicated, all properties regarding the element that was indicated are displayed.- CV Control type - Indicates the type of control identified using Computer Vision.
- CV Text - Indicates the text identified using Computer Vision.
- Fuzzy selector - The parameters for the fuzzy selector.
- Native text - The text that is used to identify the UI element.
- Responsive websites - Enable responsive websites layout.
- Strict selector - The strict selector generated for the UI element.
- Targeting methods -
The selector types that you want to use for identifying the element. This
property can be set to any combination from the drop-down menu:
- None
- Strict selector
- Fuzzy selector
- Image
- Native text
- Computer
Vision - To use Computer Vision as a targeting method, you
need to go to Project Settings > Computer Vision
and make sure to set the correct server endpoint. You can leave this
field as it is and use UiPath Cloud, which is filled-in by default,
or you can enter another value either by selecting any of the other
public endpoints specific to a server
region or your own on-premises server.
Another way of using Computer Vision as a targeting method is to set Use Local Server to True. This implies that the UiPath.ComputerVision.LocalServer package is installed in your project. When Local Server is enabled, the server value is over-written. However, the Local Server is not available in cross-platform projects.
- Visibility check -
Checks whether the UI element is visible or not. You can choose one of three
options from the drop-down menu:
- None - Does not check for visibility.
- Interactive (for Fuzzy Selector) - Default option. Checks if the element is potentially visible, ignoring page scroll and obstructions by other apps, or the fact that the application is minimized. This check is useful when trying to ensure that you are not targeting invisible elements that exist in the DOM but are hidden.
- Fully visible - Checks if the UI element is visible or not.
- Wait for page load -
Before performing the action, wait for the application to become ready to
accept input. You can choose one of three options from the drop-down menu:
- None - Does not wait for the target to be ready.
- Interactive - Waits until only a part of the app is loaded.
- Complete - Waits for the entire app to be loaded.
- Window selector (Application instance) - The selector that is used for the application window. Only applicable when the window attach mode is set to Application instance.
- Target (Next button) - The target of the second indicated button, based on which the table is extracted. For more information on the property fields that can be expanded under this property, see the Target property above, as the functionality of the properties is the same.
Misc
- Private - If selected, the
values of variables and arguments are no longer logged at Verbose level. This field
supports only
Boolean
(True, False) values. The default value is False.
Options
- Append results - Specifies whether the results are appended after the already existing values, if applicable, or the entire information is overwritten.
- DataTable - The
information extracted from the indicated web page. This field supports only
DataTable
variables. - Delay between pages - The amount of time (in seconds) to wait until the next page is loaded. The default value is 1.5 seconds. If the loading time of the page is longer, this value should be higher.
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Input mode - Select how to execute the click on the next page link if the data spans multiple pages. This property works only if a next link button is indicated.
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Same as App/Browser - Use the same input mode as the Use Application/Browser activity.
This is the default option.
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Hardware Events - Uses the hardware driver to perform the action. This is the slowest method, it cannot work in the background, but it is compatible with all desktop apps.
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Simulate - Simulates using accessibility APIs. Recommended for browsers, Java based applications, SAP. Usually more reliable than Hardware Events. Sends all text in a single action. Works even if target app is not in focus. Please test if your target application UI element supports this.
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Chromium API - Performs actions using debugger APIs. Works only for Chromium elements. Sends all text in one go. Works even if target app is not in focus. For more details, check out this page.
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Window Messages - Simulate using Win32 messages. Recommended for desktop apps. Usually more reliable than Hardware Events. Sends all text in a single action. Works even if target app is not in focus. Please test if your target application UI element supports this.
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- Limit extraction to - Specifies the type of limit that you want to use when extracting data. This property works alongside the Number of items property. The following options are available: Max UI elements, No Limit (default option), and Max Pages.
- Number of items - The maximum number of results to be extracted. If the value is 0, all the identified elements are added to the output. This property works alongside the Limit extraction to property.
- Work in scope - Choose the browser tab rendering the web application to automate.
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Indicate target on screen - Indicate the data to extract by following the Table Extraction wizard.
After you indicate the target, select the plus button to access the following options:
- Extract data wizard - Open again the Table Extraction wizard to extract data.
- Edit extract data - Open the Table Extraction wizard to configure the extracted data.
Additional options
Timings
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Delay before - Delay (in seconds) between the time the previous activity is completed and the time this activity begins performing any operations. The default value is 0.2 seconds. Adding a delay between activities ensures that one activity has enough time to complete before the next activity begins.
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Delay after - Delay (in seconds) between the time this activity is completed and the time the next activity begins any operations. The default value is 0.3 seconds. Adding a delay between activities ensures that one activity has enough time to complete before the next activity begins.
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Timeout - Specify the amount of time (in seconds) to wait for the activity to be executed before throwing an error. The default value is 30 seconds.
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Continue on error - Specifies if the automation should continue even when the activity throws an error. This field only supports
Boolean
values (True, False). The default value is False. As a result, if the field is blank and an error is thrown, the execution of the project stops. If the value is set to True, the execution of the project continues regardless of any error.
Options
- Limit extraction to - Specifies the type of limit that you want to use when extracting data. This property works alongside the Number of items property. The following options are available: Max Rows (default option), No Limit, and Max Pages.
- Number of items - The maximum number of results to be extracted. If the value is 0, all the identified elements are added to the output.
- Delay between pages - The amount of time (in seconds) to wait until the next page is loaded. The default value is 1.5 seconds. If the loading time of the page is longer, this value should be higher.
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Input mode - Select which method the Robot should use to interact with the target application:
- Same as Browser - User the Input mode setting from the parent Use Browser activity.
- Chromium API - Performs actions using debugger APIs. Works for Chrome and Edge elements only. Sends all text in one go. Works if the target app is not in focus.
- Simulate - Simulates the click using accesibility APIs. Works for browsers. Sends all text in one go. This input method works in the background (even if the target app is not in focus).
Others
- Destination data table - Where to save the extracted data.
- Input DataTable - Data to append to the extracted data.