- Overview
- UI Automation
- About the UI Automation activity package
- 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-DBP-031 - Activity verification
- 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
- Activities index
- 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
- Accessibility Check
- Application Event Trigger
- Block User Input
- Check/Uncheck
- Check App State
- Check Element
- Click
- Click Event Trigger
- Drag and Drop
- Extract Table Data
- Find Elements
- For Each UI Element
- Get Browser Data
- Get Clipboard
- 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 Clipboard
- Set Runtime Browser
- Set Focus
- Set Text
- Take Screenshot
- Type Into
- Unblock User Input
- Use Application/Browser
- Window Operation
- 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
- About the mobile device automation architecture
- 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
- Release notes
- About the Terminal activity package
- Project compatibility
- Best practices
- Find Text
- Get Color at Position
- Get Cursor Position
- Get Field
- Get Field at Position
- Get Screen Area
- Get Text
- Get Text at Position
- Move Cursor
- Move Cursor to Text
- Send Control Key
- Send Keys
- Send Keys Secure
- Set Field
- Set Field at Position
- Terminal Session
- Wait Field Text
- Wait Screen Ready
- Wait Screen Text
- Wait Text at Position
UI Automation activities
Browser Navigation
The example below explains how to open a web page and navigate back and forward through pages. It presents activities such as Navigate To, Go Forward, and Go Back. You can find these activities in the UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities package.
This is how the automation process can be built:
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Open Studio and create a new Process.
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Drag a Sequence container in the Workflow Designer.
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Add an Open Browser activity inside the Sequence container.
- Add the expression
"https://www.name-generator.org.uk/quick/"in the Url field. - Open Internet Explorer and navigate to https://www.name-generator.org.uk/quick/.
- Add the expression
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Select the Do container of the Open Browser activity and create the following variables:
Variable Name Variable Type Default Value RandomNameGenericValue nameHashGenericValue -
Add a Highlight activity inside the Do container of the Open Browser activity.
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Inside the activity, click Indicate element inside browser, and then select a name from the web page. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Add a Get Text activity below the Highlight activity.
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Inside the activity, click Indicate element inside browser, and then select the same name as in the previous step. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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In the Properties panel, add the variable
randomNamein the Value field.
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Add a Navigate To activity below the Get Text activity.
- Add the expression
"http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php"in the Url field. - In Internet Explorer, navigate to http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php.
- Add the expression
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Add a Type Into activity below the Navigate To activity.
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Add the variable
randomNamein the Text field. -
Inside the activity, click Indicate element inside browser, and then select the String text box. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Add a Highlight activity inside the Do container of the Open Browser activity.
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Inside the activity, click Indicate element inside browser, and then select the displayed MD5 hash. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Add a Get Text activity below the Highlight activity.
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Inside the activity, click Indicate element inside browser, and then select the displayed MD5 hash. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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In the Properties panel, add the variable
nameHashin the Value field.
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Add a Message Box activity below the Get Text activity.
- Add the following expression
in the Text field:
"MD5 Hash for '" + randomName + "' is '" + nameHash + "'".
- Add the following expression
in the Text field:
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Add a Highlight activity below the Message Box activity.
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Inside the activity, click Indicate element inside browser, and then select the browser Back button. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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Add a Go Back activity below the Highlight activity.
- In Internet Explorer, go back to https://www.name-generator.org.uk/quick/.
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Add a Highlight activity below the Message Box activity.
- Inside the activity, click Indicate element inside browser, and then select another name. You can follow the instructions explained in the GIF at step 5.
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Add a Get Text activity below the Highlight activity.
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Inside the activity, click Indicate element inside browser, and then select the same name as in the previous step. The GIF below shows all the steps you need to follow:
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In the Properties panel, add the variable
randomNamein the Value field.
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Add a Go Forward activity below the Highlight activity.
- In Internet Explorer, go forward to http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php.
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Add a Type Into activity below the Go Forward activity.
- Add the variable
randomNamein the Text box. - Inside the activity, click Indicate element inside browser, and then select the String text box. You can follow the instructions explained in the GIF at step 8.
- Add the variable
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Add a Highlight activity below the Type Into activity.
- Repeat the instructions from step 9.
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Add a Get Text activity below the Highlight activity.
- Repeat the instructions from step 10.
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Add a Message Box activity below the Get Text activity.
- Repeat the instructions from step 11.
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Add a Close Window activity below the Message Box activity.
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Run the process for opening a browser, navigating back and forward between pages, and displaying information from the pages.
