While implementing solution for Level 3 Advanced Training on a separate machine, connected via RDP, i had to use the default UiPath Academy Recorder in order to upload my solution.
Here is the tricky part, although the automation completed successfully without the Academy Recorder on, while it was activated it failed (at random iterations) to recognize the download pop-up window element using the on-element appear activity. If the Academy Recorder was launched from the main machine the automation was also completed without errors.
Additional actions tried:
Check if element vanished
Check with On element exist instead
Also used wait for active and wait for visible options
Checked options for Interactive and Completed as well
-Is this related to the fact that the Academy Recorder slows down remote machine?
Thank you in advance,
Konstantinos
I'm quite aware this hasn't been answered in 2+ years (so hopefully you've solved it!)
An alternative way is to use the Wait For Download Activity.
This activity will wait for the file to be completely downloaded before moving to the next step (so be aware of any timeouts if a bigger file)
The activity is included with the UiPath.System.Activities
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Situation and Problem: We are working with Citrix + Windows Terminal Server 2012 R2 and we are experiencing that a single Internet Explorer (Version 11.0.96) process can use up to 60-80% of CPU-Power. Since there are 15 user working on one Server any given time, one or two users can disturb all the others by using all the available CPU-Power.
First (insufficient) Solution: To overcome this Problem, We changed the Internet Explorer shortcut from the users startmenue (tile-design menue): We are starting the Internet Explorer just with three cores (out of 6 core) with this command:
start /Affinity 7 iexplorer.exe
Problem: If the users start the Internet Explorer from a link (out of word, Outlook or wherever), the Internet Explorer is starting again with all six cores.
Question: Is there a way to start the iexplorer.exe process (Independent from the starting point) always with less cores, or is it possible to limit the CPU-usage for a specific process..?
That's just two possibilities I'm thinking about, if you have other solutions in mind, feel free :)
Thanks and greetings Kevin
Many reasons can cause this issue, Like due to issue in a update, due to homepage, due to add on.
So you need to check one by one that what thing cause this issue.
You can try steps below and check whether CPU consumption reduced or not.
(1) On the General Tab click Tabs button and unchecked the option "Show Previews for individual tabs in the task bar".
(2) Go to the "Advanced" tab in "Internet Options" and checked "Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering".
(3) Temporarily disable all the add on and turn on them one by one and check the consumed memory every time. If if you find any add on consume high CPU then remove it from IE.
(4) Try to check whether issue caused by a faulty update.
You can also try to refer MSDN article below and if you are using that specific update then try to apply the hot fix may solve your issue.
Internet Explorer 11 consumes high memory and CPU cycles after you install update MS15-106
I have a problem trying to schedule a task with Automation Anywhere 10.5.
I've actually activated the Auto login option at AAE Client but when the computer is locked and the task is suppose to start the computer doesn't login and the task starts normally as in background without unlocking the computer.
The problem with it is that we can only run tasks that normally would run on background (tasks that don't need to activate windows and perform operations like clicks or object cloning).
Example: I schedule a task that shows a simple Messagebox but when apparently it doesn't run. Then, I log in to the computer and I can see the messagebox active.
Do you know how to solve it?
My team has hit a few snags on this previously. If you haven't solved this yet - please utilize the following link:
http://www.automationanywhere.com/techsupport/Customers/Support/Utility/Autologin_Diagnose_Fix_Utility.zip
I received this from an AA employee as well as a best practice document. The utility tool should alert you of any practices you're not currently adhering to and resolve them if it can.
Please let me know if you need additional assistance.
I am trying to test the Login feature of my Android app with multiple user-password entries that I have in an Excel. I have already been able to import that data from the Excel successfully and run the same test with each row (with "Run on all Rows" option), but now I am facing a problem that I am not being able to solve.
After a test runs with one row, one the test starts over with a new row, it will not restart the app, but start at the same point where the previous one finished. I think this is not the expected behaviour, in general, since most of the GUI testing tools restart the app when testing a feature with parametrization (data from Excel, mostly). Anyway, I "fixed" this by logging out in my app.
In this case there was an "easy solution" by logging out. But what if I was testing a different feature in which I cannot simply "log out". The problem is that in those different cases I would have to navigate back or do something that may fail and has nothing to do with the feature I am testing.
I am not sure if I am not using the right approach. Is there a good general solution for this issue?
I would suggest the following two ways to solve your problem if you cannot simply use logout as the last step.
Use App.Launch function you can add one line to the top of your script like Device("iPhone 7").App("myApp").Launch NotInstall, Restart . Here the device and the app can be TO in object repository or identified using descriptive programing like Device("id:=123456")
Check options in Test Settings Please check the latest UFT version maybe 12.53 or later if there are any options in Test Settings for users to choose to restart or reinstall app for iterations.
Thanks
I have a small VB .Net application that, among other things, attempts to substitute system wide typed text by the user(hotstrings concept). To achieve that, I have deployed 'ahk2exe' and 'AutoHotkeySC.bin' with my application and did the following:
When a user assignes a new 'hotstring':
Kill 'hotstring' exe script file if running
Append new hotstring to the script file (if non exist then create a new one)
Convert edited/new script file to exe (using ahk2exe)
Run the newly converted script exe
(somewhere there I also check if the hotstring has been already assigned)
However, I am not totally satisfied with this method for the following two main reasons:
The extra resources deployed with the application.
Lag: The time it takes for the system to kill the process and then restart it takes a minimum of 5 seconds on my fast computer and more on other computers. That amount of time is much more than the time it takes the user to assign the hotstring, minimize/close the window and then test his/her new hotstring. When the user does so initially with no success they will think the process failed. So this method is not very good for user experience.
So, I am looking for a different method or implementation. May be using keyboard hooks? Or maybe adding a .dll library that achieves the same. Are there any resources you know about that might help (free or commercial)? What is the best way to achieve my desired goal?
Many thanks for your help.
Implementing what Autohotkey does would be a pretty non trivial task.
But I'm pretty sure that AHK supports an "autoreload" option for scripts
googling "autohotkey auto reload" turned up several pages discussing that very concept. IF that worked, all you'd have to do is update the script file and that's it, AHK should automatically reload the script.
Every morning when I get into work I launch about a dozen apps and whatnot (FF, TB, VSx2-3, Eclipse, SSH, SVN update x2-3). Needles to say this does a good job of warming up my HDD for the day. I rather suspect that it would run a lot faster if they were launched sequentially (not to mention that I wouldn't need to click in 17 different places).
Is there a preexisting product that can kick off a sequence of tasks/apps/etc. where each task is only started after the last app is done hammering the HDD?
It would nerd to be able to kick apps like VS and firefox and also be able to trigger explorer context menu items like SVN update in TortoiseSVN.
Try SlickRun, it's free, I've used it for years, I use it constantly and I'd be lost without it.
Think of it like a configurable Start->Run command, it'll do what you want (you can configure n second pauses between multiple commands), and if you install it you'll use it for a thousand different things before the first week is out.
P.S. I have no stake in SlickRun, I just like it :)
Unfortunately, I don't know of any software that can do this for you automatically.
However, can't you trigger the updates through a console SVN task? If so, can't this be done by creating a batch file? It's low tech, and you might want to add a few pauses between each task, but it should do what you want.
As you mention TortoiseSVN, I'll assume your O/S is windows.
You could launch an Autohotkey script at startup. I don't think it can easily detect HDD activity, but you can at least wait until each window appears with the WinWaitActive command.
If each application has an average time they take to complete, you could simply use Windows' Scheduled Tasks application. Obviously you'll need to be running Windows but Scheduled Tasks can be found in the Control Panel.
Execute "Add Schedules Task", select the program, the frequency and then the specific time.