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Learning Robotic Process Automation

You're reading from   Learning Robotic Process Automation Create Software robots and automate business processes with the leading RPA tool – UiPath

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788470940
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alok Mani Tripathi Alok Mani Tripathi
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. What is Robotic Process Automation? FREE CHAPTER 2. Record and Play 3. Sequence, Flowchart, and Control Flow 4. Data Manipulation 5. Taking Control of the Controls 6. Tame that Application with Plugins and Extensions 7. Handling User Events and Assistant Bots 8. Exception Handling, Debugging, and Logging 9. Managing and Maintaining the Code 10. Deploying and Maintaining the Bot 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with UiExplorer

UiExplorer is a more advanced version of the selector. It is a tool that gives us the flexibility to customize the selector.

Let us try to understand the concept of UiExplorer with an example. In this example, we are going to type some text into a Notepad window. It is very easy to automate this task. You just have to use the Type into activity and Indicate on screen the area to be typed into and provide the text to be typed. Suppose you have opened a Notepad window, written some text into it, and then saved this file. If you want to write some text into it again, then UiPath Studio gives you an error.

There is nothing wrong with the implementation. What actually happens is that when you write some text in Notepad, UiPath Studio recognizes the file, app, type, title, and class, and saves this information for future recognition.

You have saved the file by...

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