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UI Nodes - FAQs

Last Updated: Mar 8, 2023

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  1. How can Captchas be handled?
    There are two options.
    1. Disable the captcha for the login id used by the bot or for requests coming in from a specific IP/subnet.
    2. Enable email Multi-Factor Authentication so that the bot monitors mailbox for the second factor and uses it to login into the portal.
  2. What is the Default delay for a web element to be captured?
    Two attempts at a delay of five seconds.
  3. What is Default delay to navigate to next page?
    20 seconds.
  4. If the session ID in URL keeps changing how can such applications be automated?
    Any dynamic values after the port are not considered. Protocol//domain:port is considered for URL.
  5. During Web automation, I have a file explorer popup to which the filepath has to be passed. How do I handle this?
    Image description If there is a desktop application pop up to be handled during web automation, you can record the elements of the desktop applications by toggling the Desktop toggle in the UI Learn Window as shown below: Image description The recorded element can be used in the Actions tab, and inputs passed as shown below: Image description
  6. I have a website, after clicking a button, new tab opens up and I need to extract data from the new tab. After navigating to new tab the get text element is failing with “Element Not Found” Error. How can I resolve this?
    Use the Switch tab in the browser function to pass the control to the new tab.
  7. I have recorded the dropdown, but I am unable to select the values from the dropdown directly. How can I handle these types of dropdowns?
    There are different ways of handling this, based on the type of dropdowns.
    • Dropdowns that support search: The option to be selected can be sent as input and click on the search button. The element is displayed in the dropdown and click enter to select the option.
    • Dropdowns that support recording of options directly: In this case record the option that must be selected and the same will be selected when the task is executed.
    • You can also send keys to select the required option from the dropdown using send string or by writing a selenium custom expression in python.
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