v21.10

The UiPath Extension for Remote Desktop Protocol can now also be used with Azure Virtual Desktop client.

The Get Attribute activity has been reworked and now comes as part of the Modern design experience. Changes have also been made to improve the usability of the activity, making it offer a better experience overall.

The Get Text activity now features a wizard that enables you to preview the results of the text extraction, as well as configure the extraction method.

Two new activities, Get Browser Data and Set Browser Data, have been created to make it easier to migrate browser data from a session to another.

Adding or editing variables is now easier than ever. With the enhanced Selection Screen variable support this release brings, you can easily edit your selectors by using variables and arguments, and then choose to propagate the change throughout all instances of the said variable from that descriptor.

You can now refresh the Image selection when indicating in an application, by using the new button added in the Selection Screen.

All of the variable features added to the Selection Screen are now also available when editing selectors in the Selector Editor.

The Resize window property in the Use Application/Browser activity now has the option to minimize the window.

Support for Responsive websites has been added with this update. The Selection Screen now features a check box that enables working with elements that reflow when the browser window is resized.

The Open Application/Browser activity can now open applications in remote environments, making automation with the Modern experience in such environments much easier.

The Modern UI from the Selection Screen is now part of the Classic Experience as well.

Starting with this update, every time you start the Recorder, it starts recording automatically, and you no longer have to indicate the window first, thus making your automation life easier.

Applications provisioned through Microsoft RemoteApp can now be automated with the UI Automation activities.

As Internet Explorer 11 is approaching its upcoming end-of-life, we have developed a migration tool that enables you to convert all of the selectors and properties for your workflows seamlessly into ones fit for modern browsers, such as Edge, Chrome, or Firefox, ensuring you do not lose all of your automations based on this soon-to-be legacy browser.

The Type Into activity can now automatically detect the correct Input Mode based on what results each input mode returns for the application you are automating.

The Verify Execution feature in the Type Into, Click, and Hover activities can now check not only if the target element appeared or disappeared, but also if its text has been modified or if its visual appearance has been modified (status icons changing, etc.), via two new options in the Verify Element dropdown.

A new option has been implemented for the Input Mode property, called Chromium API, which is tailored for use with all Chromium-based browsers, being faster and more reliable than the others.

The App/Web Recorder now supports using the Object Repository when recording, enabling you to use already existing objects or create new ones on the fly.

The new Highlight feature in Object Repository enables you to highlight any object you have captured in the screen where you are capturing, making it easier to identify which element you are working with.

When validating results in the Selection Screen, multiple selectors are now searched for simultaneously.

The Extract Table Data activity now extracts all attributes when used on standard table extraction. Also, when automatically extracting URLs, the full URLs are now retrieved.

Adding another human ability to our robot workforce, we have developed a new activity, Mouse Scroll, which enables you to either scroll through pages for a fixed number of lines, or to a specified UI element, in applications you are automating.

The Edge Extension now supports Java Applets and ActiveX controls in IE Mode.

The Display Name property of the Use Application/Browser activity now automatically changes according to the indicated target, so you can easily spot which card points to which application at design time. In the situation when you are using nested application cards, you can now choose from a drop-down in the body of every activity the application card you want to reference when indicating on screen.

When recording Type Into with the Modern Experience, a drop-down for Special Keys is now displayed when entering the text you want to type.

When scraping tables with the Extract Table Data activity, the Extract Table Data Wizard now retains previous changes when reopened.

The Attach Browser and Attach Window activities now enable you to set both the Selector and Browser or Window properties at design time without throwing an error. At design time, the Selector property is used, while, at runtime, the Browser or Window properties are used.

Salesforce Lightning, with specific Salesforce AURA components path and attributes, and reliable selectors, is now supported in Chrome and Edge.

This activity package now supports .NET 5 Windows and Cross-platform projects. For more information, see About Automation Projects. Also, the following OCR engines now support .NET5: Google Cloud Vision OCR, Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR, Tesseract OCR.

Microsoft OCR, however, does not support .NET5; when using the UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities package in a .NET5 project, Microsoft OCR is not displayed.

The Mouse Scroll and Keyboard Shortcuts activities have been visually updated, sharing the same UI as the other Modern activities.

The Object Repository now uses Computer Vision technology for the Capture all elements feature, which can extract all the elements of a specified application and add them to your Object Repository. This can greatly reduce the time needed to build the Object Repository libraries, as you no longer have to manually add each element one by one. You can also open any element in the Capture Elements wizard directly in UI Explorer via a dedicated button.

The Use Application/Browser activity now has a new Input Mode, called Background, which enables you to use all its children activities in the background whenever possible.

You can now open the application or browser targeted by the Use Application/Browser activity by using the new button in the body of the activity.

The UI-SEC-010 and UX-SEC-010 Workflow Analyzer rules now also apply to remote target applications. Also, both rules now allow using wildcards in creating rules.

The App/Web Recorder now has an input method called Auto, which automatically selects the best input method available, making it easier to automate different kinds of apps.

UI elements from CefSharp embedded widgets (e.g. SharpBrowser, SAP NWBC with Fiori Launchpad) are now recognized as belonging to the host application instance.

Starting with UiPath.Excel.Activities version 2.11.3 and UiPath.Presentations.Activities version 1.2.3, you can add UI Automation activities inside a Use Excel File or Use PowerPoint File activity to quickly automate the interface of Excel and PowerPoint.

The Check App State activity has been taken up a notch, and can now monitor the entire application screen for changes, not just a single UI element.

The RDP Extension can now be installed per system, removing the previous limitation, where it required per-user installation.

The new Text Changed option in the Verify element property drop-down menu enables you to verify any changed text in the targets of activities that support this, such as Click, Hover, and Type Into.

The Verify Execution property has been added to the Keyboard Shortcuts activity, expanding this feature to the scenario where you want to verify the way keyboard shortcuts are sent by your automation process.

The CV Activities now support table cell identification, enabling you to automate table cells a lot easier, based on either row and column content or indexes.

The new Runtime Browser project setting enables you to use a different browser at runtime than the one used at design time. This is done automatically, as all related properties and selectors are seamlessly adapted to the browser of your choice.

The Desktop Project Settings Targeting Methods (AA, UIA, Win32) have been merged into a single setting, called Targeting Methods – Desktop.

Multiple new project settings or the UI Automation package have been added or updated, to fit your automation needs, as follows:

A new Capture Screenshots setting that specifies whether activities save screenshots of their targets at design time. This setting is present in both Modern and Classic experiences.

A new Robot Logging section, with the Run value and Debug value settings that specify whether the Robot should log extra values.

The Targeting Methods Project Settings have now been split according to the type of the target application. Now you can configure separate settings for Web, Java, SAP, and Desktop applications.

The Verify Execution project setting has a new option which enables you to always perform verifications for Click, Hover, and Type Into activities in a project.

Also, the Input Mode project setting has been split into two separate project settings, Input mode for Edge browser and Input mode for Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge in IE mode, to make sure the correct input method is selected when using Edge Chromium.

The new SAP Session Attributes Change Trigger activity enables you to create triggers by monitoring changes in SAP session attributes.

Support has been added for Chromium for SAP Business Client. This allows users to use the same features and SAP Fiori capabilities available as when automating with UiPath Studio and Google Chrome.

Support has been extended for SAP ALV Tables with Multiheader. You can now extract data from tables which have their headers split into two or more lines.

The new Expand ALV Tree activity enables you to expand the parent ALV tree to the selected node and use any activities with the resulting elements, making SAP ALV Tree lists a lot easier to automate.

SAP Fiori UI5 attributes are now fully visible and usable with the Modern UI Automation experience.

Full text scraping is now supported in SAP ALV Tables, which means that you can now also scrape the text that is not visible.

When using the Extract Table Data activity to extract data from SAP ALV Tables, you can now distinguish between the column display name and the column tooltip, to make it easier to correctly identify your target.