How to read the items in listBox in windows application form and store them in datatable?

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how to read the items in listBox in windows application form and store them in datatable ?

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Did you try select item activity?

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yes, but it(select item activity) doesn’t give the output . how to get that cause i was not able to get it .
thank you

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Then, did you try full text scrapping method? i couldn’t access UiPath in my work place otherwise i would have tried various methods and give you answers

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Hi,

Here we go.

  • Find Children activity (indicate on the listbox ) .output type (IEnumerable UiElement) (childVar)

  • ForEach Activity loop to iterate through all the UiElement (childVar)

  • Get attribute Activity pass ForEach item in the element property and choose aaname to get each item of the listbox.

  • Finally you can build DataTable or add the value to the existing DataTable using add data row.

GetListBoxItem.xaml (10.4 KB)

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This seems same like RPA challenge 6 lol :slight_smile:

instead @ddpadil you can share that link as well :slight_smile: so all things will be at common place :slight_smile: :stuck_out_tongue:

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I am curious if anyone has solved the issue to the original question. The supplied answer seems to refer to a browser and not a windows form as indicated in the original post. I have tried both with UiPath and another RPA solution to read from multi column listboxes and both applications seem to have difficulty reading from more than the first column.

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Try with "Select mulitiple " activity in UiPath 2017.1.* studio version but For now, select multiple works only for web pages. UiPath Team are working on adding support for other type of applications in the next service pack release.

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Looks like the “select multiple” activity wasn’t quite what I was looking for. After some tinkering I found that the “Get Attribute” activity looks like it fits my needs for the most part. If I use that and have it grab the “virtualname” attribute that brings back a string with the values I am looking for which I can parse from there.