Indicate on screen option - menu click not working

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not able to click on notepad menu using indicate on screen option. It takes notepad click event instead of menu click.

2

make use of anchor base which prompts while doing basic recording and choose yes.

3

I was trying by dragging the activity and then selecting the menu using “indicate on screen” link. Anyways as you suggested I tried by recording but didn’t get any promp and still have same issue that i am not able to capture menu click, it always go notepad click.

4

Here we go.
notepad.xaml (16.5 KB)

5

notepad has thrown an exception

Message: Cannot find the UI element corresponding to this selector:

Source: Click ‘menu item Format’

Exception Type: SelectorNotFoundException

UiPath.Core.SelectorNotFoundException: Cannot find the UI element corresponding to this selector: —> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Cannot find the UI element corresponding to this selector:
at UiPath.UiNodeClass.FindFirst(UiFindScope scope, String nodeID)
at UiPath.Core.UiElement.FindFirst(FindScope scope, Selector selector)
— End of inner exception stack trace —
at UiPath.Core.Activities.TaskAsyncCodeActivity`1.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)

6

oops sorry forgot to edit the selector.
check this one.
notepad (1).xaml (9.1 KB)

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notepad (1) has thrown an exception

Message: Cannot find the UI element corresponding to this selector:

Source: Click ‘menu item Format’

Exception Type: SelectorNotFoundException

UiPath.Core.SelectorNotFoundException: Cannot find the UI element corresponding to this selector: —> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Cannot find the UI element corresponding to this selector:
at UiPath.UiNodeClass.FindFirst(UiFindScope scope, String nodeID)
at UiPath.Core.UiElement.FindFirst(FindScope scope, Selector selector)
— End of inner exception stack trace —
at UiPath.Core.Activities.TaskAsyncCodeActivity`1.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)

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strange i kept static selector .
I sent xaml file to my team mates to give a try its working fine in their system.
:roll_eyes:

You can try doing this
use recorder then click on format then hit F2 which gives you 3 sec of delay to choose the menu.