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- 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-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
- Application Event Trigger
- Block User Input
- Check/Uncheck
- Check App State
- Check Element
- Click
- Click Event Trigger
- Drag and Drop
- Extract Table Data
- 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
UI Automation Activities
Last updated Nov 12, 2025
UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities.NDragAndDrop
Executes a drag and drop operation from the source UI element to the destination UI element.
This activity must be added inside a Use Application/Browser activity.
To use this activity outside a Use Application/Browseractivity, you need to provide an Input element.
This activity is compatible with Object Repository.
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Click Indicate in App/Browser to indicate the UI element to use as target both for Source element and for Destination element.
After you indicate the target, select the Menu
button to
access the following options:
- Indicate target on screen - Indicate the target again.
- Edit target - Open the selection mode to configure the target.
- 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.
Properties panel
- 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.
- 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.
- Responsive websites - Enable responsive websites layout.
Destination - Target - Offset point
The location where you want to drag and drop the UI Element to. Before indicating on screen the target you want to use, this
field is set to
(null). Once the target is indicated, all properties regarding the element that was indicated are displayed. The children properties
of this field are identical to the ones specific to the Target property.
- Anchoring point - Describes the starting point of the cursor to which it offsets from Offset X and Offset Y properties are added. The following options are available: TopLeft, TopRight, BottomLeft, BottomRight, and Center. By default, Center is selected.
- Offset X - Horizontal displacement of the cursor position according to the option selected in the Anchoring point field. This field supports only
Int32variables. - Offset Y - Vertical displacement of the cursor position according to the option selected in the Anchoring point field. This field supports only
Int32variables.
Input/Output
- Input element - The UI element
on which the activity is executed, stored in an
UIElementobject. This field supports onlyUIElementobjects. This object can be obtained from the Output Element property field of other UI Automation activities.
- Output element - Outputs a
target UI Element and stores it in a
UIElementobject, which can be further used to target the same element with other activities.
Options
- Mouse button - The mouse button you want to use for the drag and drop action. The available options are Left, Right, and Middle.
- Delay between actions - Delay (in seconds) between the actions necessary to perform the drag and drop operation. The default value for this field is 0.3.
- Healing Agent mode - Configures the behavior of the Healing Agent for this activity, based on Governance or Orchestrator settings at process
or job level.
- Disabled - Turns off the Healing Agent for this activity.
- Inherit job settings - Applies the settings defined in Governance or in Orchestrator at the process or job level.
- Recommendation only - Enables the Healing Agent to provide recommendations on how to fix UI automation issues on running jobs, but only if permitted by Governance or Orchestrator settings.
- Same as App/Browser - Inherits the configuration from the parent Use Application/Browser activity.
- Key modifiers - This field enables you to specify the key modifiers you want to use during the drag and drop action. Multiple key modifiers can be selected for the action. The following options are available: None, Alt, Ctrl, Shift, and Win.
- 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.
Target
- Expand target properties - Display target and anchor properties. This will hide the other activity properties and display only those related to the target.
- Collapse target properties - Hide target and anchor properties. This will hide target related properties and display the activity properties.
- 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 - The strict selector generated for the target UI element.
- Fuzzy selector - The fuzzy selector parameters.
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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.
- CV Control type - Indicates the type of control identified using Computer Vision.
- CV Text - Indicates the text identified using Computer Vision.
- CV Text occurrence - Indicates a specific occurrence to be used, when multiple matches are found.
- CV Text accuracy - Indicates the accuracy level for OCR text matching.
- Semantic selector - Leverages large language models (LLMs) to generate functional, human-like descriptions of UI elements. These descriptions are highly reliable making them adaptable to UI changes and significantly improving automation resilience when traditional selectors fail.
- Image
- Image accuracy - Indicates the accuracy level for image matching.
- Image occurrence - Indicates a specific occurrence to be used, when multiple matches are found.
- Native text
- Native text - The text to find to identify the UI element.
- Native text occurrence - Indicates a specific occurrence to be used, when multiple matches are found.
- Window selector (Application instance) - Selector for the application window. Only applicable when window attach mode is set to application instance.
- Wait for page load - Before performing the action, wait for the application to becaome ready to accept input. The options are:
- 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.
- Visibility check - When enabled, the activity also 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.
- Responsive websites - Enable responsive websites layout.
- Anchoring point - Describes the starting point of the cursor to which it offsets from Offset X and Offset Y properties are added. The following options are available: TopLeft, TopRight, BottomLeft, BottomRight, and Center. By default, Center is selected.
- Offset X - Horizontal displacement of the cursor position according to the option selected in the Anchoring point field. This field supports only
Int32variables. - Offset Y - Vertical displacement of the cursor position according to the option selected in the Anchoring point field. This field supports only
Int32variables.
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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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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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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.
