A developer indicated a Ul element for a Get Text activity. The automatically-generated selector is shown below.
Correct Answer:
D
Based on best practices, the selector attribute that is unreliable is innertext. The innertext attribute is the text content of a UI element, such as a table, a button, or a label. The innertext attribute is unreliable because it can change dynamically depending on the data or the state of the UI element. For example, the innertext attribute of a table can change when the table is updated with new values, or the innertext attribute of a button can change
when the button is clicked or disabled. Using the innertext attribute in a selector can cause the selector to fail or to identify the wrong UI element if the text content is different from the expected value1. Therefore, the innertext attribute should be avoided or replaced with a more reliable attribute, such as tag, class, or title. The tag attribute is the name of the HTML element, such as table, button, or input. The tag attribute is reliable because it does not change unless the UI element is replaced with a different element. The class attribute is the name of the CSS class that defines the style or the behavior of the UI element, such as ui_side_menu, btn-primary, or form-control. The class attribute is reliable because it does not change unless the UI element is styled or modified differently. The title attribute is the text that appears when the mouse pointer is hovered over the UI element, such as temperature now, submit, or username. The title attribute is reliable because it does not change unless the UI element is renamed or removed2.
References: Selectors with Wildcards and UiPath Selectors from UiPath documentation and forum.
A developer downloads a published package from UiPath Orchestrator 2021.10 to use locally. What is the extension of the downloaded package?
Correct Answer:
C
The extension of the downloaded package from UiPath Orchestrator 2021.10 to use locally is .nupkg. A package is a file that contains the workflows and the dependencies of a project that is ready to be executed by a robot. A package can be created and published from UiPath Studio, or uploaded manually to UiPath Orchestrator. A package can also be downloaded from UiPath Orchestrator to use locally, such as for debugging or testing purposes. The extension of the package file is .nupkg, which is the standard extension for NuGet packages. NuGet is a package manager that is used to manage the dependencies of a project, such as libraries, frameworks, or components3. A .nupkg file is essentially a ZIP archive that contains the files and metadata of the package4. For example, if a package named Process1 is downloaded from UiPath Orchestrator, the file name and extension will be Process1.nupkg. The .nupkg file can be opened or extracted using a ZIP utility, such as 7-Zip or WinZip, or renamed to .zip and extracted using Windows Explorer5.
To retrieve all Outlook emails with the word "UiPath" in the subject, which filtering property and filter schema should a developer use?
Correct Answer:
B
To retrieve all Outlook emails with the word “UiPath” in the subject, a developer should use the Filter property and the filter schema “@SQL=”“urn:schemas:httpmail:subject”" like ‘%UiPath%’“. The Filter property allows developers to specify a DASL query that filters the emails based on various criteria, such as subject, sender, date, etc. The filter schema “@SQL=”“urn:schemas:httpmail:subject”” like ‘%UiPath%’" uses the SQL dialect of DASL to search for emails that have the word “UiPath” anywhere in the subject. The “%” symbol is a wildcard that matches any character or string. (UiPath Automation Developer study guide)
References:
✑ Get Outlook Mail Messages
✑ Chapter 11: Searching Outlook Data | Microsoft Learn
Where can a process be found, after being published from UiPath Studio and deployed as an automation in Orchestrator?
Correct Answer:
B
A process can be found in the UiPath Assistant after being published from UiPath Studio and deployed as an automation in Orchestrator. UiPath Assistant is a desktop tool that enables users to easily access, manage, and run automation workflows on their machines. It displays all the available automations that the user can run, either from Orchestrator or locally. To run an automation from Orchestrator, the user needs to connect the UiPath Assistant to Orchestrator and synchronize the automations and settings with the cloud. The user can also add automations to the launchpad for quick and easy access, create custom folders and sections to organize the automations, view the status and progress of the running automations, and access the help and feedback options.
References:
✑ Software Robot Assistant - Desktop Automation | UiPath
✑ Robot - About UiPath Assistant - UiPath Documentation Portal
A developer created an automation which scrapes data from PDF reports. The reports have the same structure and the title format is always "Report X - PDF"T where X is a number from 1 to 100. Only one report will be open at a time but other PDF files may be open on the desktop.
What is the recommended method to ensure the selector identifies the correct PDF to use?
Correct Answer:
D
The recommended method to ensure the selector identifies the correct PDF to use is to use the * wildcard character in place of the “X” in the title attribute value. The * wildcard character is a symbol that can replace zero or more characters in a string. It can be used to handle dynamic elements in a selector, such as the title of a PDF file that changes for each report2. For example, if the selector for the PDF file is:
<html title=‘Report X - PDF’ />
Then the selector can be modified as:
<html title=‘Report * - PDF’ />
This selector will match any PDF file that has a title starting with “Report” and ending with “PDF”, regardless of the number in between. This way, the selector can identify the correct PDF file to use, even if other PDF files are open on the desktop, as long as only one report is open at a time.
References: Selectors with Wildcards and Wildcards in selector from UiPath documentation and forum.