Pick Branch triggers - Find Element's timeout is breaking it - it won't cancel

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Hi, I would like to just lift up this problem I am having now also.
Here in an old thread the users found some dirty workarounds, but I believe this needs attention of the Product team, hence creating new thread in Feedback channel

@loginerror I will leave it up to you if you want to merge this post with the post below but we need some attention on this… Thanks! :slight_smile:

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Aha, so it turned out my Pick activity is actually not having issues with Find Element, it works fine, but is not working due to Wait For Download activity.

I have these three triggers: Delay (for complete timeout), Find Element (to find an popup error that is present in the moment of testing) and Wait For Download.

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If I delete the Wait For Download, the Fidn Element (error) in the middle one is indicated properly, all works as expected.
But in the way how it is now - as you see on the screenshot - it just get stuck and the Find Element stops working no matter how long or short timeout I put here (even 100 miliseconds).

Also (nice to haves:)

  • Pick branch cannot be easily Disabled so in order to temporary disable it I need to Create new Pick activity, insert that pick branch in and then comment the whle thing jesus christ
  • It would be SO MUCH NICER if the branches are aligned on top.

end of feedback :wink:

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If anyone is curious how to workaround untill UiPath will fix this:

  • before the pick activity I used For Each File In Folder and inside - Delete File (to clean up the folder)
  • then instead of Wait For Download I put a while loop with Condition Directory.GetFiles(name of th directory).Count > 0 and inside few seconds Delay activity

So in case there is new file, the while loop will break and this will trigger the 3rd branch.

How easy…

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Thanks for a nice summary @Roman_hruska, we’ll use this feedback for future improvements :slight_smile:

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Just to clarify - without delay if triggers for other branches do not fire, it would throw an exception? I just need it for case when I want to continue execution when no trigger fires.
Edit:
Wow, indeed, when I add Delay in a new branch it doesn’t throw exception when no other branch trigger executes. Thank you @Roman_hruska