How To Take A Screenshot Of The Full/ Selected Region On The Screen

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How to take a screenshot of the selected region on the screen and how to take a screenshot of the entire screen?

UiPath has an inbuilt Take Screenshot activity in UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities package. This activity can be used to take a screenshot of a specified UI element or a region.

Steps mentioned below (for Classic Take Screenshot activity):

1. Create a sample process and ensure to install UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities from the Manage packages.
2. From the Activities pane, search for 'Take Screenshot' activity and drag the same into the designer pane.

3. Set the required Target (Input) in the Properties pane.

Required parameters:

• Selector: The target window.
• ClippingRegion (Keep this field blank if a screenshot of the entire screen is needed): Defines the clipping rectangle, in pixels, relative to the UiElement, in the following directions: left, top, right, bottom. It supports both positive and negative numbers.

4. Set the required Output parameter from the Properties pane

Output :

• Screenshot: The resulted screenshot. The field supports only Image variables.

5. To save the taken screenshot, drag “Save Image” activity into the designer pane to save the screenshot to the specified location.

Input:

File Name: The full file path where you want to save the image, and its name.

Output:

Target Window:

Resulted screenshot:

Note: The advantage of using modern Take Screenshot activity (by enabling Modern Design Experience) is, both the actions of taking a screenshot and saving a image is clubbed into this single activity.