What is the meaning of available options of Scope field in Find Children activity

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Hi everyone,

I am currently using Find Children activity for my project.I am selecting “Find Descendants” value to “Scope” field of this activity But I wonder what is the meaning of these available options in that field.
Please help me to clarify this.

thanks and best regards,
Hoang Anh.

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Hi,

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Hi @ddpadil,

Thank you so much for your link.
I read that before but I didn’t see the information that I’m looking for.
Could you provide clearer information?

thanks and best regards,
Hoang Anh.

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please check this.

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Hi @ddpadil,

I found the explanation of Find_Children, Find_Descendants in your link.
How about other options like: Find_Top_Levels, Find_Process, Find_Thread?

Thanks and best Regards,
Hoang Anh.

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Hi, Anhth15

Have you got the answers for Find_Top_Levels, Find_Process, Find_Thread? I am looking for them too. If you got, could you share with me?

Thanks,
Judy

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@anhth15
Have you got the answers for Find_Top_Levels, Find_Process, Find_Thread? I am looking for them too. If you got, could you share with me?

Thanks,
Judy

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Hi everyone,
Does any of you have found the answer for the use of the three last options in the Find Children activities? (Find_Top_Levels, Find_Process, Find_Thread)
Thank you,
Jb

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Hi @jb.dtl

I pointed our documentation team in this direction and they will look into improving the article about Find Children :slight_smile:

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Hi Maciej,

Thanks a lot for your answer, it will help us a lot !! :grin:

Kind regards,
Jb

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Having said that, I can also hint that those options might have been left for legacy purposes and will become deprecated. Personally, I would not use those until they are well documented.

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Hi @anhth15 @jb.dtl

The article on the activity has been updated :slight_smile:

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Hi @loginerror,
Do you have any workflow examples? I havent succeed using those scopes.
Thanks,

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Sure, have a look at this basic example:
FindChildrenExample.zip (2.3 KB)

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Thanks, but I mean Find_Top_Levels, Find_Process, Find_Thread.
I haven’t figured out how these work.

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Any chance you have any examples on Find_Top_Levels, Find_Process, Find_Thread?
The documentation is quite short about it.
Thank you!

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Although I don’t have any specific examples, I would suggest targetting a simple top level object with children elements and then using the debug Locals panel to see what the output will be.

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Okay, well, I found one setup for them.

  • filter: <wnd />
  • selector (empty)
  • Scope: FIND_TOP_LEVELS or FIND_PROCESS or FIND_THREAD

This combination gives me all running processes (all the scope settings so so far I have no idea what is the difference between them. They don’t work with some element for example some parent DIV on website.

I found this website: How To : Kill All IE Browsers Except Selected One (Using Find Children Activity)- UiPath (By Pinky Agrawal) - RPA Tools
where author use for Filter <html /> and in his example it should retrieve all html processes, however, when I try to run his workflow or replicate, I recieve nothing.

End of my research for now. :wink:

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