Can we take screenshot when robot running unattended

[pranitha63]

Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to know is my above question achievable

Thank you
Pranitha

[arivu96 (Arivazhagan A)]

Hi @pranitha63 ,
yes its possible. use Take screenshot activity

refer below link to save screenshot image

How To Take A Screenshot Of The Full/ Selected Region On The Screen

How to take a screenshot of the selected region on the screen and how to take a screenshot of the entire screen? UiPath has an inbuilt Take Screenshot activity in UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities package. This activity can be used to take a screenshot of a specified UI element or a region. Steps mentioned below (for Classic Take Screenshot activity): Create a sample process and ensure to install UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities from the Manage packages. From the Activities pane, search for 'Take…

Regards,
Arivu

[nikhil.girish]

Hi @pranitha63

Welcome to community

Kindly check out “Take screenshot” activity

Take screenshot activity can work in both attended and unattended mode

It will work for sure even if you haven’t indicated any screen
In that case it just take the screenshot of the screen present at that moment
And have it as a img object

[Gokul001 (Gokul Balaji)]

Hi @pranitha63

Yes its possible to take screenshot in unattended mode.

Check out the XAML file for Take ScreenShot

TakeScreenshot.xaml (8.0 KB)

Regards
Gokul

[pranitha63]

So this activity would help to take and save to which folder

[Sudharsan_Ka]

Hi @pranitha63
Welcome to Community!

As suggested it is possible what you need is like the studio installion must be in the Service mode when its come to unattended

Unattended but working only when the screen is open

Thanks a lot @seanrockvz13 for explaining to me about many things. After checking the whole system setting again . I have come to know that the path is installed with the Robot type as User Mode in the non-working VM . After the reinstallation is done with the robot type as Service Mode the VM is working fine. [image] If anyone faces the same issue you need to check this first in task manager->Details [image] There should be a Service. host available in the running state for unattended and…

[nikhil.girish]

For that kindly use save image activity

[pranitha63]

Just found it @nikhil.girish
Thanks

Take screenshot & save image activity

[arivu96 (Arivazhagan A)]

@pranitha63

So this activity would help to take and save to which folder

you can give your own path

Regards,
Arivu

[Sudharsan_Ka]

After taking the screenshot you will receive a image varaible in the take screenshot activity @pranitha63

Use that variable in the Image field above and gve your folder path and filename it will be saved in the required folder

[pranitha63]

Thanks @nikhil.girish @arivu96 u made my task easier

[nikhil.girish]

Also
@pranitha63

Uipath Take Screenshot and Save Image | Uipath Save Image | Takes Specific Area Screenshot | ExpoHub

For your reference