How to search for element that contains text in RPA.Windows

[revathikanakachalam]

Hi, I am new to windows app automation. We are using RPA.windows library for out app automation. I need to find a element that matches a text in name locator. For example there are few element2 with name value as "Connect to server test1" , "Connect to server test2", "Disconnect from server test3" I need to find elements that matches word "Connect".

Appreciate any help!

[mikahanninen]

Hi @revathikanakachalam .

Here are couple options that can be used for better name attribute matching:

RPA.Windows.Get Element    regex:Connect.*test1    # regular expression matching
RPA.Windows.Get Element    subname:"Connect to"    # inclusive matching

[revathikanakachalam]

@mikahanninen
Both worked, thank you very much

Is there any roadmap in plan to add support for keywords like Wait Until Element Visible, Wait until page contains element, Page should contain element in RPA.Windows library,etc

[mikahanninen]

Windows library keywords already inheritantly wait for an element/window to appear. For example, you could start to execute a Robot that has "Control Window" for a window that does not yet exist, and outside of that execution start the window manually and if there is still timeout left on the "Control Window" it will detect that window exists and takes control of it. The same applies to element-related keywords.

In the RPA context the "Should" type keywords are not really mandatory, but I agree that something like Is Element Visible type of keywords might be usable. There are workarounds that could be used like Get Element with a timeout of 0 and wrapping that into TRY/EXCEPT block.

[revathikanakachalam]

@mikahanninen Thank you that is really helpful

Our application login page elements are not identified by RPA.Windows. When Inspected using Inspect.exe the login page elements has FrameworkId as "Chrome". Where as rest of the pages after login I am able to interact with the elements where the "FrameworkId" is "WPF".

As per info from dev team, web page is integrate inside WPF window

Appreciate any suggestion how to handle the login page

[cmin764]

I haven't used this inspection tool, but maybe you'll have better results with Accessibility Insights. Meanwhile, throw an eye over our How to inspect section of the docs. (so you'd be able to discover more with our windows-record and Print Tree)

You can also try our current Robocorp's Inspector in VSCode:

Read more on Windows Locators

[cmin764]

Will close this for now as the main problem reported in the initial issue got solved. (~please open a new thread in our forum for similar questions~ (just saw the thread) (and report in GitHub issues/bugs/feature requests given the library))