- 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
Project compatibility
In this page, you can check the availability of the UI Automation activities with the different project compatibilities in UiPath Studio.
Classic activities
| Activity | Windows - Legacy | Windows | Cross-platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Classic activities | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Modern activities
| Activity | Windows - Legacy | Windows | Cross-platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application Event Trigger | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Check/Uncheck | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Check App State | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Check Element | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Click | ✅ | ✅ | ✅1 |
| Click Event Trigger | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Drag and Drop | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Extract Table Data | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| For Each UI Element | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Get Attribute | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Get Browser Data | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Get Text | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Get URL | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Go to URL | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Highlight | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Hover | ✅ | ✅ | ✅1 |
| Inject Js Script | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Keyboard Shortcuts | ✅ | ✅ | ✅2 |
| Keypress Event Trigger | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Mouse Scroll | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Navigate Browser | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Select Item | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Set Browser Data | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Set Runtime Browser | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Set Text | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Take Screenshot | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Type Into | ✅ | ✅ | ✅3 |
| Use Application/Browser | ✅ | ✅ | ✅4 |
1 Only the Same As Browser, Simulate, and Chromium API input methods are supported. The CursorMotionType property is removed because it is based on the Hardware Events input method.
2 It only supports the Chromium API input method.
3 Only the Same As Browser, Simulate, and Chromium API input methods are supported.
4 This activity is renamed to Use Browser and is no longer suitable for indicating anything else than browser windows. The Resize window and Window attach mode properties are no longer available. It only supports the Simulate and Chromium API input methods.
Semantic activities
| Activity | Windows - Legacy | Windows | Cross-platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Semantic activities | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
Computer Vision activities
| Activity | Windows - Legacy | Windows | Cross-platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Computer Vision activities | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Cross-platform
Cross-platform automation projects are designed to run cross-platform on Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. With the UI Automation activity package, you can create Chrome browser-based automation projects that run cross-platform.
Design-time experience
The activities available in this project type are pointed out in the provided tables.
Available OCR engines:
- UiPath Screen OCR
- UiPath Document OCR
- OCR for Chinese, Japanese and Korean
- UiPath Extended Languages OCR
Supported browsers:
- Chrome on Windows, Linux, and macOS
- Microsoft Edge on Windows
Activities specifics
Being tailored for a multitude of platforms, the activities used by cross-platform projects have a slightly different behavior when compared to the normal ones and have been, in some cases, stripped of some features, to ensure compatibility. In this section, you can find a list of these differences.
Input methods
The Hardware Events input method is not supported in cross-platform automation. Thus, the Simulate and Chromium API input methods are the only available input methods.
Targeting methods
Only Chrome is supported, and targets are only generated by using Strict Selectors, Fuzzy Selectors, and Computer Vision, without Image and Native Text.
Project settings
The available Project Settings categories are:
- Generic - All Project Settings.
- Targeting Methods Web - Strict Selector, Fuzzy Selector, Enable Anchors, Ignore IDX, Input Modes for Simulate, and Chromium API.
- Application/Browser - Close, Open, UserDataMode, UserDataFolder.
- OtherActivities - CheckAppState, Hover.
- KeyboardEvents - ClickBeforeTyping, Empty Field.
Capture All Elements
To be able to use the Capture All Elements feature, the mandatory Computer Vision API key and URL are displayed in the Project Settings.
Runtime experience
Automations created with cross-platform projects can run on Windows, Linux robots, and macOS via the UiPath Assistant.
On Windows, you can run attended automations serverless from Microsoft Edge.
You can read more on how this is achieved below:
