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- 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
Last updated Feb 19, 2026
How-to guides
This page includes guides and resources that can help you learn how to create automations using the activities in this package.
Tutorials
Step-by-step guides on how to create automations from scratch. Each tutorial includes a project that you can download and open in UiPath Studio.
| Tutorial | Description | Activities |
|---|---|---|
| Perform browser search and retrieve results using UI Automation APIs | Create an automation that opens the Google search engine, performs a UiPath search, retrieves the result from the official UiPath website, and displays it in the console. |
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| Web Browsing | Automate the action of browsing a web page by highlighting and showing the content of all items from the header menu. | |
| Find Images | Identify the number of appearances of the same image under different names. | |
| Click Images | Automate the interaction of a robot with a simple Windows application by manipulating multiple images until creating a pattern. | |
| Trigger and Monitor Events | Monitor user events and trigger different actions by using different hotkeys for opening certain applications. | |
| Create and Override Files | Create a new notepad file, edit it, and save it. | |
| HTML Pages: Extract and Manipulate Information | Automate the action of browsing a web page, extract information and use it for creating a new, local HTML page. | |
| Window Manipulation | Manipulate an open window from your computer. | |
| Automated List Selection | Automate the selection of various items from a list displayed on a web page. | |
| Find and Manipulate Window Elements | Automate the action of changing the font size in a notepad file. | |
| Manage Text Automation | Automate a text received as an input. | |
| Load and Process Images | Read and retrieve a text from a previously loaded image. | |
| Manage Mouse Activated Actions | Automate the use of the mouse on a website. | |
| Automate Application Runtime | Open, run, and close an application. | |
| Automated Run of a Local Application | Automate the running flow of a local application by opening it, running it, and then closing it. | |
| Browser Navigation | Open a web page and navigate back and forward through pages. | |
| Web Automation | Automate the action of browsing a web page, retrieving the needed information, and displaying it into a message box. | |
| Trigger Scope Example | A sample automation project which monitors the URL attribute of a web browser and, when changed, moves the automation in a Picture-in-Picture session, monitoring user click actions and saving the UI element as a variable. | |
| Working With UI Automation | Copy values from an Excel file and paste them to a desktop application. Then copy the transaction number from the desktop application and paste it to the Excel file. Click a button in the desktop application to submit the data and display a confirmation message. | |
| Extracting Table Data From a Web Page and Editing It in Excel | Extract a table with today's exchange rates for the Euro against other currencies from the European Central Bank website. | |
| Filling Out PDF Forms in Acrobat Reader With Data From Excel | Create an equipment use agreement PDF form for each new employee at a company. |
Studio Web templates
Preconfigured projects that automate common scenarios. You can use a template as is or you can use it as a starting point for a new project to avoid starting from scratch. Templates are also a good way to learn how to automate.
You can find the following templates with activities from this package in Studio Web:
- Table Data Extraction for Sales Opportunities to Excel workbook
- Table Data Extraction for Sales Opportunities to Google Sheets
Quick fixes
This section is designed to provide immediate solutions to some common issues you may encounter while using our product.
