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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
- Save Image
- 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
- Terminal coded automation APIs
UI Automation activities
Last updated May 14, 2026
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.