Multiple windows in CV Screen scope

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Hi, I am trying to add multiple screens in the CV screenscope as mentioned in the uipath 20.10 updates.
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Not able to add multiple screens. Can any one help me with this issue.

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Any update on the above issue

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I’m having trouble with this feature as well. Did you find a solution to the problem yet?

Neither the Academy course nor the activity documentation describes how multiple screens can be added, so I’m assuming the activity should automatically cache new screens whenever they are indicated. However, this doesn’t happen.
The only workaround is to create multiple screen scopes with 1 cached screen each, which eliminates the new feature entirely.

EDIT:
The Academy Course states: “Screens are automatically cached in the CV Screen Scope when a new screen is being used in an activity (at design time);”
This doesn’t work for me, since all activities within the CV Screen Scope default to the Screen selected in the Screen Scope, even if a different screen is currently opened.

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Same question here. Not a single work in doc. Can @loginerror help?

Cheers

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Hi @mani_manisha

After pointing to the first screen, add an activity, let’s say CV Click activity.

Then, go to the step where you will indicate where it should click. You will notice a small helper window, where one of the buttons is called Refresh Scope. When you hover over this button, it will say what it does:
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All that is left to do now is to click it, and a new screen will be added to the list :slight_smile:

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@loginerror Hi,

I have followed your theory that did not work for me.

I have captured a login page (1st screen), using a click activity and refresh method isn’t adding the 2nd screen, instead, throwing an error and then waiting for the user to select an element from the 1st screen but not adding the 2nd screen (Welcome page). Please check the screenshots and help me to clear my doubts. :slight_smile:

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Thanks and regards,
Ray

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I want to refresh my screen automatically, not manually.
In UiPath docs I found
" From v20.10.5, new caching strategy that enables CV Screen Scope to auto-refresh screens whenever necessary .
this was not happening in my case.

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As the message says, iit looks like the application you are targeting is no longer available.

I see in your first screenshot that the scope is the login area, which is targeted by the CV Screen Scope selector. Since that area is no longer available, it cannot be refreshed.

The solution is to indicate the whole window, not that element which disappears after the login.

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Try this:

  • add a CV Scope
  • indicate the app window, not an element within it
  • add a click activity, and inidicate an element
  • in the application, go to a different screen
  • add a new click activity, indicate
  • click the Refresh Scope button in the helper (2nd button)
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You should now have 2 screens in the Screen Scope, if they were actually different

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If anybody in this thread still has this issue after following these steps, pls post a video so we can better understand your usecase.

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any idea , how to remove an already added screen in cv scope?
thanks

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Hi @Abhash_Kumar did you receive any feedback on how to remove unnecessary screen in cv scope?

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hey @emil.kozub no solution of it as of now.

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[sorry for the extremely late reply - in all honesty, this got buried under a pile of other issues/feedback/urgent tasks I needed to care of; I’m replying now just to try and close some of the leftover questions]

CV is mostly (not 100%) now integrated in Unified Target as a targeting method, so our recommendation is to switch to the UIAutomation activities - where you don’t even have a screen manager because the UX is different; we gave up the “screenshot UX” idea because it was much more difficult to work with and brought an entire set of unnecessary issues (such as this one, how to add/remove screens if needed) vs. the current UIAutomation UX.

So the answer is: use the UIA scope, “Use Application/Browser”, CV activities will at some point be deprecated - once we’ll finish integrating all the functionality in Unified Target.

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