I am trying to do a right click activity on an ui element that starts off being off screen. It is a folder that I am accessing using file explorer. I am able to open file explorer and use a type into activity to get to the parent directory but there are many folders in there and the folder I am trying to right click on is off screen.
I cannot get uipath to be able to find the folder, I have tried using simulate click, send window messages in my click activity both give me same error that it cannot find the ui element. It does work if I manually scroll the explorer item list down until the folder comes into view. I have though about using a while loop and sending hot key page down and checking to see if element is visible but want a more elegant solution since I have to loop through a lot of directories and do this for each.
Could you explain what information you are trying to get? I could write a workflow to you
Right clicking in the interface won’t help you, I can write some code to you
Unfortunately, I have to use a right click activity to call an custom application in the context menu of the folder. Its custom code that archives the folder and its contents to HPE content manager. So I am not trying to get information per say. I attached screenshot to show what I am doing. I am right clicking on folder 201705 Data and executing the “Import to CM” executable.
I have been able to use a element exists check inside a while loop and sending hotkey page down until the element shows up to get it to work. But the element exists activity is just too slow. I have to loop through about 200 folders.