First assignment: Unicorn task // Runtime Execution Error + Excel problem

Hi there,

joined “Reboot Your Skills”, your 4-week introductory RPA learning program yesterday.
Installed UiPath Studio today & started the first lesson (Unicorn name).

First of all: Whenever using UiPath Studio, I have to re-install the Excel Add-In, otherwise Studio will not find Excel at all & sends an error message.
How can I change that?
Working with Office 2010 (unfortunately).
When checking Excel Options, the UiPath Add-In is always on Inactive Status. Excel keeps pushing it to Inactive & I don’t know how to change that.

Second problem:
When running the first assignment, it starts out looking good, getting the name from the unicorn xls file, entering it in the dedicated website but then it stops, freezes for a while and after some time the following message occurs:

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RemoteException wrapping UiPath.UIAutomationNext.Exceptions.NodeNotFoundException: Could not find the user-interface (UI) element for this action.

Possible solutions:
• Ensure application is opened and the UI element is visible on the screen at
execution time
• Edit the Target of the UI activity and use Validation to debug the issue.
• If needed, re-indicate the element as its properties might have changed
• Use “Check state” activity to check the application state before executing the action
• Increase the “Delay before” value to allow time to the application to render entirely
and become responsive
at UiPath.UIAutomationNext.Activities.TargetCommonLogic.d__8.MoveNext()
— End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown —
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at UiPath.UIAutomationNext.Activities.TargetBase.d__40.MoveNext()
— End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown —
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at UiPath.UIAutomationNext.Activities.NGetText.d__11.MoveNext()
— End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown —
at UiPath.Shared.Activities.AsyncTaskCodeActivityImplementation.EndExecute(AsyncCodeActivityContext context, IAsyncResult result)
at UiPath.Shared.Activities.ContinuableAsyncCodeActivity.EndExecute(AsyncCodeActivityContext context, IAsyncResult result)
at System.Activities.AsyncCodeActivity.System.Activities.IAsyncCodeActivity.FinishExecution(AsyncCodeActivityContext context, IAsyncResult result)
at System.Activities.AsyncCodeActivity.CompleteAsyncCodeActivityData.CompleteAsyncCodeActivityWorkItem.Execute(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager)

No clue about that.
Can you help me out please?

Thanks & kind regards,
Jane

  1. on you first problem , make sure you are not unde some domain/security policy that would disable the addin.
  2. might that something has changed on the indicated target. try to indicate again all targets from begining. Also try to maximize the target on the screen before running the wf, as a workaround