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Hi there, hope you’re doing fine!

I’m having an issue with CV click activity and, after researching I realized that it’s not possible to solve it by now with the ui activities package, so I come here to propose it as a future feature, don’t hesitate to ask me to clarify any point, thanks for reading!

Alright, we have an App section where I cannot interact with native selectors so I use CV:

A computer interface displays a grid with a list of articles, descriptions, and several blacked-out sections, alongside buttons at the bottom for utilities, historical data, and reports. (Captioned by AI)
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I use Extract Table Data activity to get all article lines and then, I go line by line, double clicking and editing each line. There is no way but double clicking the line to modify it.
Here you can see that it normally works. I have a CV selector looking for each Article number:

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The issue comes where there is an article duplicated :open_mouth: :

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You can guess, all the data in the line is duplicated so I cannot add an anchor in any place.
At this point I imagine it would be nice if, somehow, I can select dinamically one of the duplicates.
Imagine, I go line by line so, it would tell UiPath ativity, “Yes, you found a duplicate, click in the first one, I will ask you later to go to next one”.
I imagine some basic stuff like we were used with “traditional” selectors… Previously we were going line by line, row by row… I would like to have this in place.

Just FYI, the workaround I’ve made today:

  • If my order has just one line: click in the only article number
  • Else
    • If it is first line, click in the article with the anchor (OVER the next article)
    • Else, click in the one UNDER the previous article

Ok that’s all for today :smiley: hope it’s clear and not so heavy to read/understand.
What do you think guys about it? Is it worthful/less? :rofl:

BIG HUG TEAM!

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@jmedinacarbonell

Its worth an ask..but one thing here is that in a traditional selector you get the full dom but for cv there is ko dom there is only visual things that you can use..so the workaround you used should be the way because visually that is what creates the difference

Cheers

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Hi,

Yes, that’s why I’ve opened this topic.
Since it is a workaround, and I know people using CV can fall in this issue quite often, I let it documented here until we have a better solution.

I have in mind something like a CV DOM :rofl:
Funny but some day… it will be real! I know UiPath can do it!

Hug

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I believe it will improve to provide accurate results.

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hiu @jmedinacarbonell

first of all, thank you for posting this; we have an item to add CV support to the For Each UI Element activity, closing one more functional gap when it comes to using CV in Unified Target.

while we can’t put a finger on a date, I can safely promise we’ll have it by our Oct '25 GA release.

cc @sbotan

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Hi @Bogdan_Sultana ,

It sounds nice! Thank you!

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Do keyboard shortcuts work in this window? Can you use arrow down to highlight an element and then press enter instead of double-click?

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Hi @postwick

Moving between lines work with arrows but, as said There is no way but double clicking the line to modify it so, nor pressing enter, nor any method else, works in this ERP.

Anyway, this is another workaround to have always in mind when we automate so, I think it would be useful as well for future visitors in this post :slight_smile:

Thanks for writing!