Descriptors in Studio Flashcards
What is the selection option window?
Selection Option window provides Advanced option such as Enforce visibility, Dynamic Text Target, Native text Target and Image selection mode.
When does the image selection method is useful?
When the selectors and Fuzzy selectors aren’t available. In cases like Virtual Machine environments.
How can you enable the image selection mode?
By clicking the image selection option in the selection option window or pressing F3.
Identify and match the keyboard shortcuts for the following options in the selection option window.
a. Pause configuration
b. Image selection mode
c. Hoverable element selection
- F3
- F6
- F2
a. Pause configuration: F2
b. Image selection mode: F3
C. Hoverable element selection: F6
You are building an automation for a webpage, one of the UI elements, which you want to indicate, is available only on hover. How do you select/indicate that particular UI element?
1. By enabling the Hoverable Element selection
2. Using the Pause Configuration Option
3. Need to adjust many things in the workflow to achieve this requirement
4. Using Keyboard Shortcuts
- By enabling the Hoverable Element selection
What’s a target?
A target is a UI element, you want to interact with to perform some actions on it.
How does a robot identify the correct target?
Targeting methods help identify the correct target element. Modern UI Automation activities use multiple targeting methods to identify the UI Element you want the process to interact with.
The key targeting methods are:
Selectors
Fuzzy Selectors
Image
Native Text
How ‘Native Text’ method work?
- It’s used to detect the position of the text on the screen to perform the required action.
- Best suited for automating legacy applications that doesn’t have correctly defined UI elements.
- When enabled, other targeting methods won’t apply to that particular UI element.
How does Fuzzy selector work?
Fuzzy selectors enables you to locate elements based on a pattern.
How does Image method identify elements?
This method reads the array of pixels in a visible region of the application window to identify if it matches the target array.
What is an anchor and when should I use it?
An anchor is another UI element that helps to uniquely identify the target.
- When you indicate a target using a modern UI automation Activity, UiPath tries to identify and automatically select an anchor.
- You can also manually add up to three anchors to the required target.
How many anchors you can add to a targeting element?
upto 3 anchors
In which colors the target and the anchors are highlighted?
Target in Green
Anchor in Blue
What are the frameworks used to identify elements by the unified target?
Default - Proprietary framework
AA - Active Accessibility
UIA - UI Automation
How unified targeting method works?
Using stack of targetting methods: Selectors, Fuzzy Selectors and Images.
These three targeting methods are redundant to one another. Which means that they all try to identify the target element simultaneously, and whichever finds the target first, that targeting method will be considered.
