How to change drop down selected value on a windows application?

[pradeepin2007 (PRADEEP KUMAR KASI)]

Hi Team,

I am trying to change the selected value from the dropdown list with another value.

I have 3 values in drop-down list ,default selected with one value
I tried different activities to capture the required value but couldn’t succeed.

Any one can suggest a solution ?

[ManiPrajwal_K (Mani Prajwal Katta)]

Have you tried using Select Item?

[pradeepin2007 (PRADEEP KUMAR KASI)]

Yes, tried using Select Item also, not working for me

[THIRU_NANI (NANI)]

Hi! @pradeepin2007, welcome to community!

You can achieve this by using the select item. if it is not working you can try

Find children Activity followed by Get attribute values

for your reference please go through this.

Find Children - Drop down menu's

I’ve been trying to gather the options available in various drop down menu’s. I have used the Find Children on the drop down element, then wanted to do a write line to just output the options to the output window. so For Each item in Status (FindChildren Variable IEnumerable) WriteLine item.tostring but it outputs “UiPath.Core.UiElement” rather than the actual option that the drop down contained" Any help greatly appreciatedFndChildren.xaml (7.6 KB)

Regards,
NaNi

[Vishnu_Baburajan (Vishnu B)]

Hi @pradeepin2007 ,

Does it shows any error popup while using Select Item…?

Just open UiExplorer and adjust the selectors of Select Item activity by adding the attributes like aaname.

Or if it is typable dropdown, then use combination of Click,Type Into, Send Hotkey activities.

Regards
Vishnu

[pradeepin2007 (PRADEEP KUMAR KASI)]

Yes. I got below error message then Set the property to true.but still can not interact with the control.

Select Item ‘combo box Down’: The target element is disabled. Set ‘AlterIfDisabled’ to ‘True’ to enable interaction with disabled elements.

[lakshman (Ganta lakshman)]

@pradeepin2007

@pradeepin2007

Select Item ‘combo box Down’: The target element is disabled. Set ‘AlterIfDisabled’ to ‘True’ to enable interaction with disabled elements.

Set AlterIfDisabled to True in properties of Select Item activity and check it once.

[Vishnu_Baburajan (Vishnu B)]

Is it still shows the same error even after changing the property AlterIfDisabled to True…?

[Nam_Pham]

My solution is:

• Click drop down button
• Take a screenshoot & paste in on PAINT program
• Then use click image activities → adjust the selector from paint to your program which one you need automation