- Release Notes
- Getting Started
- Setup and Configuration
- Automation Projects
- Dependencies
- Types of Workflows
- File Comparison
- Automation Best Practices
- Source Control Integration
- Debugging
- The Diagnostic Tool
- Workflow Analyzer
- About Workflow Analyzer
- ST-NMG-001 - Variables Naming Convention
- ST-NMG-002 - Arguments Naming Convention
- ST-NMG-004 - Display Name Duplication
- ST-NMG-005 - Variable Overrides Variable
- ST-NMG-006 - Variable Overrides Argument
- ST-NMG-008 - Variable Length Exceeded
- ST-NMG-009 - Prefix Datatable Variables
- ST-NMG-011 - Prefix Datatable Arguments
- ST-NMG-012 - Argument Default Values
- ST-NMG-016 - Argument Length Exceeded
- ST-DBP-002 - High Arguments Count
- ST-DBP-003 - Empty Catch Block
- ST-DBP-007 - Multiple Flowchart Layers
- ST-DBP-020 - Undefined Output Properties
- ST-DBP-023 - Empty Workflow
- ST-DBP-024 - Persistence Activity Check
- ST-DBP-025 - Variables Serialization Prerequisite
- ST-DBP-026 - Delay Activity Usage
- ST-DBP-027 - Persistence Best Practice
- ST-DBP-028 - Arguments Serialization Prerequisite
- Variables
- Arguments
- Imported Namespaces
- Recording
- UI Elements
- Control Flow
- Selectors
- Object Repository
- Data Scraping
- Image and Text Automation
- Automating Citrix Technologies
- RDP Automation
- SAP Automation
- VMware Horizon Automation
- Logging
- The ScaleCoordinates Migration Tool
- The ScreenScrapeJavaSupport Tool
- The WebDriver Protocol
- StudioPro
- Extensions
- Troubleshooting
UI Explorer
UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities
package is installed as a dependency to the project.
Using UI Explorer as a standalone tool does not require you to install Studio. This comes in handy when you want to make sure that an application can be automated with selectors. It enables you to simply inspect elements without building a process. The standalone package also contains the SetupExtensions utility, thus making it possible to install browser extensions and the JavaBridge to inspect elements across all your automation needs.
To open the UI Explorer window, click the button in the Selectors section, in the Design tab, or from the advanced editor in the selection screen of all the selectors of the target and anchors attributes, after indicating the target UI element.
UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities
pack installed as a dependency for the current project, the UI Explorer button does not appear in the Ribbon.
Alternatively, the UI Explorer can be launched from the Tools page in the Studio backstage view. UI Explorer from the context menu uses the UI automation libraries shipped with the current version of Studio.
To be sure that you choose the best selector, remember to:
- Add or remove attributes
- Add parent or children tags
-
Use wildcards to replace changing values
Field |
Description |
---|---|
Validate |
The button shows the status of the selector by checking the validity of the selector definition and the visibility of the target element on the screen. The Validate button has three states:
|
Indicate Element
|
Indicates a new UI element to replace the previous one. |
Indicate Anchor
|
Enables you to choose an anchor relative to the target UI element. |
Repair
|
Enables you to re-indicate the same target UI element and repair the selector. This operation does not completely replace the previous selector. The button is available only when the selector is invalid. |
Highlight
|
Brings the target element in the foreground. The highlight stays on until it's switched off. The button is enabled only if the selector is valid. |
UI Frameworks
|
Changes the technology used to determine UI elements and their selectors. The following options are available:
Click here to read more about Active Accessibility and UI Automation. |
Displays a tree of the UI hierarchy and enables you to navigate through it, by clicking the arrows in front of each node.
By default, the first time when you open UI Explorer, this panel displays all opened applications, in alphabetical order.
Double-clicking a UI element (or right-clicking and selecting Set as Target Element) from the tree, populates the Selector Editor, Selector Attributes and Property Explorer panels.
Field |
Description |
---|---|
Highlight
|
Highlights the selected element from the Visual Tree in real time. The highlight stays on until it's switched off. |
Show Search Options
|
Displays the search box and search filter options. |
Search Box |
Enables you to look for a specific string. If an exact match is not found, nodes containing the nearest match are displayed. Wildcards are supported. Depending on the attribute selected from the Search by drop-down list, the search can be case sensitive. Note: The search only looks for matches in the tree structure under the selected UI object.
|
Search by |
Filters your search to a selected attribute or a selector. The contents of this drop-down list change according to the selected UI element. Note: If Search by is set to Selector, you can only input one node in the
<attribute name1='value1' ... /> format.
|
Children Only |
Limit your search to the first level children of the selected node. By default, this check box is not selected. |
Displays the selector for the specified UI object and enables you to customize it.
The bottom part of the panel displays the actual XML fragment that you have to use in a project. Once you find the selector you want, you can copy it from here and paste it in the Properties panel of an activity, in the Selector field.
The top part of this panel enables you to view all the nodes in a selector and eliminate the ones that are not necessary by clearing the check box in front of them. An element in the list of selector nodes becomes active when you enable or disable an attribute, or when editing a selector in the bottom panel. Only one node is active at a time.
Selecting a node here displays its attributes in the Selector Attributes and Property Explorer panels.
CTRL+K
hotkey to create a variable in the selector itself, or by specifying an already created variable with the CTRL+Space
combination. Using the CTRL+K
hotkey enables you to specify a value and a name for the variable. Please note that only string
variables can be used.
Displays all the available attributes of a selected node (from the Selector Editor panel).
You can add or eliminate some of the node attributes by selecting or clearing the check box in front of each attribute.
Additionally, you can change the value of each attribute yet this modification is retained only if the new selector points at the originally selected UI object.