Drop Down Menus in UiPath (Find Children & Select Item) - Full Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- This video tutorial shows how to automate drop down menus (aka combo-box or list box) in UiPath. First, we get all items in a drop-down menu, then we select/click on one item, more items, and finally all items. The activities Find Children and Select Item are used to get Attribute and For Each.
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0:00 Intro
We want to automate drop-down menus in UiPath. This full tutorial shows how to get all items from a drop-down list (combo-box/list box). Afterward, it's shown how to select/click on items in the drop-down menu.
0:40 How to get all items in a drop-down menu in UiPath (Get Children)
We define the scope with a Use Application/Browser - a Google Chrome browser instance. Remember to rename the activities to make your workflow smooth and easy to interpret for future developers. Use the Find Children to retrieve information about the UI elements in the drop-down. The information is stored in an IEnumerable. Using a For Each, we take the Get Attribute to extract the name of each of the elements (aaname). To test the automation we print the aaname to a Write Line. We can also save the names/elements from the drop-down to a DataTable/Excel sheet.
16:40 Select items from a drop-down menu with Select Item
Selecting a single item in a drop-down menu is easy. We use a Select Item with a string in it. The string needs to have the same value as the name we want to select in the drop down. To select multiple items in a drop-down, we use an array with the names/items in and then a For Each to iterate through the items.
24:59 Click all items in a drop-down menu
To click all items/names in a drop-down menu, we need to first retrieve the items/names and then we can use a For Each to iterate through them.
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Thanks for all your help and support 🙂 You can find my SoMe groups here (including my Discord with more than 1300 RPA developers): ruclips.net/video/C6xmGfEL07I/видео.html Kind regards, Anders
sir make a full video on find children activity , covering all the other properties like find descendants etc.also make a video on 'on element appear' activity and its industry usage
Yet another excellent video, thank you very much :-)
Hey Ken Chang. Thanks a lot 😊 Have a great day. You're more than welcome at my Discord, where we're 5800+ RPA developers networking and solving problems: ruclips.net/video/xWFz-S96XGo/видео.html Kind regards, Anders
Nice video :) I often experience, that the find chirldren activity doesnt properly identify the items in the drop down menu. So i have to use ui explorer to inspect the element and point out the correct parent.
An alternative to get attribute is simply a get text activity :-)
Hey Bjørn. Good old screen scraping with Get Text - thanks a lot and please continue to point out alternatives/give me feedback. It's highly appreciated 🙂 Kind regards, Anders
sir make a full video on find children activity , covering all the other properties like find descendants etc..also make a video on 'on element appear' activity and its industry usage 🙌
Hey Yashobanta Dash
Thanks for writing. I'm getting more than 40 questions/comments every day and having difficulty answering everyone (I try my best).
I've created my UiPath Groups, where we all can post and solve problems or hang out around our favorite tool, UiPath. So you're very welcome. Get the addresses here: ruclips.net/video/C6xmGfEL07I/видео.html
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@@andersjensenorg yess i forgot, i am already in dicord group! i will get help from there.thankss1
Great videos sir!!! Please give us a video on UiPath Interview preparation for experienced professionals... It would be great help...
Hey Balamareeswaran Murugesan
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@@andersjensenorg Thank you sir for your response and time!!!
Going to try this Tonight and See if it works. will let you know
Great, Rohit. Did you succeed? 😊
@@andersjensenorg I almost did, I recorded a Sequence by using the Web Record option. and the script worked for few times. But now it gives me this Error
- Select Item 'Choose One': Cannot select item. It was not found among existing items.
TIP: Some combo-boxes delay load items until its dropdown is expanded. Try to simulate a click on control prior to selecting an item.
I am struggling now to add delays as I cant find any Videos related to this Delays
Great video, but I have a slightly different question;
How do you select from a "dropdown" in a search?
For example, when you google something, it shows you search predictions that you can click. I have programmed a bot to search for names from an excel sheet, but I need it to click on the matching search prediction because the regular search doesn't lead directly to the results I want.
I don't know how to select these predictions because they change with every name from the excel sheet.
Hey Austrian Leninist
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Thanks, Anders for such a nice vedio. I have a question that, I have one excel file in which there is an item name. and i want to filter my dropdown according to that and click on checkbox once that element found. How to proceed with that?
Thanks for writing 😊 I'm getting more than 50 messages daily. While I read all of them, I can’t reply to everyone 😔 But I’ve created an RPA/Automation community where we’re 4900+ RPA Developers helping each other with solutions and our careers. Here’s the video on how to join (the invitation link is in the video description): ruclips.net/video/xWFz-S96XGo/видео.html Kind regards, Anders
I know this is an old video. But I hope you still read this. :) I have a little problem with a combo box. In the combobox I have "Surename Firstname (ID)" The only thing I have is the ID. Do you know how I search and choose the correct file? :) You are a life saver with this videos. :)
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Hey Anders I want to select only 1 element from dropdown list and use form related to that dropdown element. which activity i need to use
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Hi Anders...
Great content on UiPath.
My question is:
If select item is not able find items from the UI...(incorrect control)
What is the other method to select value in the drop-down?
Hey Rajesh, then it's not a drop-down (combo-box) per definition. Can you try with a click? Or use the recorder and see what UiPath suggests? Or join my Discord and post it there: ruclips.net/video/C6xmGfEL07I/видео.html (you're welcome here anyways, we're +1300 RPA Developers). Kind regards, Anders
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@@RajeshAttada007 Nice 🙂
Hey Rajesh. Check this: ruclips.net/video/ExspekA7UYc/видео.html I solved the problem in a live stream for you 🙂
@@andersjensenorg great... I will watch now. Thanks a lot
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I want to select menu bar n i tired that using hover activity but it's not getting selected please help me on this (how can we automate clicking on home button calendar symbol and menu bar) kindly make video on this
Hey priyanka chinnikatti Thanks for writing. I'm getting more than 50 questions/comments every day and having difficulty answering everyone (I try my best). I've created my UiPath Groups, where we all can post and solve problems or hang out around our favorite tool, UiPath. So you're very welcome. Get the addresses here: ruclips.net/video/C6xmGfEL07I/видео.html Have a great day. Kind regards, Anders
Could this also work if the drop down menu consist of ca 650 elements
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Hi how to access submenu if click is the only option and hover does not populate the sub menu
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I have a text that is below the first scroll.i need to get that text i used get text but it is not fetching
Hey Karthikeyan S Thanks for writing. I'm getting more than 50 questions/comments every day and having difficulty answering everyone (I try my best). I've created my UiPath Groups, where we all can post and solve problems or hang out around our favorite tool, UiPath. So you're very welcome. Get the addresses here: ruclips.net/video/C6xmGfEL07I/видео.html Have a great day. Kind regards, Anders
Hi. I want select drowdrop in excel.but select item is not working. Which activity I want to use.
Hey Surya. The easy solution would be to send Keyboard Shortcuts to the Excel sheet (just like a human would do). A bit more robust than mouse clicks (that will also work). The advanced solution would be to create a simple VBA script, which you can run from UiPath. Kind regards, Anders
@@andersjensenorg keyboard shortcut like pageup pagedown.