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Daily Forum Report | 13 April 2026

Top 3 Topics with Most Views

UiPath Ongoing certification framework program made by @Manisha24 with 29 views.

ClosedXML.Excel.XLWorkbook Exception in UiPath – Type Initializer Error made by @aparna.dhanesh with 22 views.

How to reliably extract Checkbox and Radio Button state from a fixed-format PDF? made by @Shoshana_Amrusi with 22 views.

Top 3 Topics with Most Replies

Public app is showing process error bad request made by @Mathkar_kunal with 11 replies.

ClosedXML.Excel.XLWorkbook Exception in UiPath – Type Initializer Error made by @aparna.dhanesh with 5 replies.

How to reliably extract Checkbox and Radio Button state from a fixed-format PDF? made by @Shoshana_Amrusi with 4 replies.

Top 3 Users Who Posted The Most

@Anil_G made 6 posts!

@aparna.dhanesh made 5 posts!

@ashokkarale made 3 posts!

Top 3 Most Liked Posts

This post made by @postwick received 1 likes!

UiPath Activity Migrator is Generally Available

It’s not difficult, it’s just annoying to have to do - especially when you have multiple XAML files in one project, you have to do each one separately. Open each XAML file in Notepad and in the first line you will see xmlns references to the library. Rename the reference to each upgraded library and save the file. For example, the old reference for FirstHorizon.Utilities_Windows will look like this: xmlns:f="clr-namespace:FirstHorizon_Utilities_Windows;assembly=FirstHorizon Utilities_Windows…

This post made by @Jon_Smith received 1 likes!

Read Text File - Exception Has Been Thrown

I’d strongly advise always ignoring the suggestion to delete the project.json. Maybe 5-6 years ago it was kind of ok to basically ‘reset’ dependencies, but these days you lose so much stuff by deleting it that its terrible advice and very rarely will it solve anything in my opinion. Its a layover of brute force, guessing until it works, type of debugging. Regarding your actual root cause, dependency conflict. Make sense, try to include that in descriptions of your issue, you mentioned you’d be…

This post made by @postwick received 1 likes!

Change Input mode when retrying

An excellent feature would be for the verification retry in the Type Into, Click etc activities to be able to cycle through different Input modes. For example, say the activity is set to Hardware - if the verification fails it tries Chromium API. If that fails it tries Simulate. We’d want to have a property where we can select which Input modes it should try.

Top 3 Most Liked Solutions

This solution provided by @rmorgan received 1 likes!

Read Text File - Exception Has Been Thrown

This has been confirmed by UiPath as a compatability issue between the latest paackages ,the root cause appears to be a dependency conflict between UiPath.WebAPI.Activities and UiPath.System.Activities. Specifically, there is a version mismatch in the UiPath.Platform dependency, which is causing this exception in Studio

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