UI Element is not found by the UI Explorer

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Hello dear colleagues,

Another day, another issue :slight_smile:

Context:
I am trying to automate a process which uses a custom application developed within the company. It is a legacy app and the support for it is low to non-existent. I did some digging and found out it is a Windows app developed using Microsoft Forms.

Steps performed by the user:

  • Opens the app & logs in
  • The app displays a large set of structured data
    image
  • The user clicks on the bottom part of the “VD” column name
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  • The user clicks again on the same spot (the left side of the binoculars icon). A text field opens.
    image
  • The user enters the “100” value + ENTER key
    image. The data has been filtered.
  • The user performs other actions.

Steps performed by the robot:
The same steps, in the same order.

The issue I am facing:
You can see in image bellow that the VD column header is split into 2 parts: the top part which contains “VD” and the bottom part (on which I want to click on and then add text into).
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UI Explorer can identify the top part, but not the bottom one. And this is the same with all the other columns.

I tried all sorts of workarounds - nothing works. Different input methods, UI Frameworks, used the Image Region selection + well defined anchors, manually searching for that element using UI Explorer 
 that UI Element is somehow invisible.

Have you ever encountered an issue like this?
I would greatly appreciate your inputs.

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Hey,

Could you try n play with some properties of the first element and see if you get the element below it.

If VD(Column Name) is always fixed you could use Anchor base activity.

Thanks.

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Huh, never though of that. It works, thanks for the help!

For whomever is interested in this fix: Activities - Anchor Base (uipath.com)

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Great, Happy Automation

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