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

[Roman_hruska (Roman Hruška)]

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!

Pick branch: Cancellation of 'Get Text' activity takes (timeout-)time

@claytonm Pick starts all branches simultaneously. Once one of the branches’ Trigger activities has run through succesfully, all other pick branch triggers are cancelled. Pretty detailed described in the microsoft docs (Auswahlaktivität - .NET Framework | Microsoft Learn) @rjSampaio: My workaround for the exception thrown by the “find element” activity was to create a replacement for the “find element” activity. I put a “element exists” with a small timeout (to reduce the waiting time due to t…

[Roman_hruska (Roman Hruška)]

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.

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

[Roman_hruska (Roman Hruška)]

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…