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- Release Notes
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- About Workflow Analyzer
- ST-NMG-001 - Variables Naming Convention
- ST-NMG-002 - Arguments Naming Convention
- ST-NMG-004 - Display Name Duplication
- ST-NMG-005 - Variable Overrides Variable
- ST-NMG-006 - Variable Overrides Argument
- ST-NMG-008 - Variable Length Exceeded
- ST-NMG-009 - Prefix Datatable Variables
- ST-NMG-011 - Prefix Datatable Arguments
- ST-NMG-012 - Argument Default Values
- ST-NMG-016 - Argument Length Exceeded
- ST-DBP-002 - High Arguments Count
- ST-DBP-003 - Empty Catch Block
- ST-DBP-007 - Multiple Flowchart Layers
- ST-DBP-020 - Undefined Output Properties
- ST-DBP-023 - Empty Workflow
- ST-DBP-024 - Persistence Activity Check
- ST-DBP-025 - Variables Serialization Prerequisite
- ST-DBP-026 - Delay Activity Usage
- ST-DBP-027 - Persistence Best Practice
- ST-DBP-028 - Arguments Serialization Prerequisite
- ST-USG-005 - Hardcoded Activity Arguments
- ST-USG-009 - Unused Variables
- ST-USG-010 - Unused Dependencies
- ST-USG-014 - Package Restrictions
- ST-USG-020 - Minimum Log Messages
- ST-USG-024 - Unused Saved for Later
- ST-USG-025 - Saved Value Misuse
- ST-USG-026 - Activity Restrictions
- ST-USG-027 - Required Packages
- ST-USG-028 - Restrict Invoke File Templates
- Variables
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- Microsoft Office issues
- Identifying UI elements in PDF with Accessibility options
- Repairing Active Accessibility support
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- Automating Applications Running Under a Different Windows User
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Studio User Guide
Last updated Jul 16, 2025
The Non-Greedy search makes it possible to identify the target element from a pool of similar applications, matching the attributes you specify. It needs to be included in the top-level tag of a selector.
If a generated selector contains the
idx attribute, its value is set by default to *.
Introducing Non-Greedy search in your selectors instructs it to search through all the active windows or browser instances
which match the top-level tags of your selector, and not just the window instances in focus. Non-Greedy search makes use of
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idx() attribute, which needs to be included in the top-level tag, as follows:
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Searches through all active window instances for the element matching the top-level tag attributes. Please note that the
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For the purpose of the example, let's assume that we want to build an automation process which interacts with the Windows
10 Calculator app. However, there are two active instances, a Standard Calculator and a Programmer Calculator. We only need
to interact with the Standard Calculator, so we introduce the idx='*' option in the top-level tag, in our case
<wnd>. The following selector is generated, which returns the Calculator instance we are looking for:
<wnd app='applicationframehost.exe' appid='Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App'
title='Calculator' idx='*' />
<uia cls='LandmarkTarget' />
<uia automationid='ProgrammerOperators' cls='NamedContainerAutomationPeer' name='Radix selection' />
<uia automationid='hexButton' cls='RadioButton' name='HexaDecimal 0 ' /><wnd app='applicationframehost.exe' appid='Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App'
title='Calculator' idx='*' />
<uia cls='LandmarkTarget' />
<uia automationid='ProgrammerOperators' cls='NamedContainerAutomationPeer' name='Radix selection' />
<uia automationid='hexButton' cls='RadioButton' name='HexaDecimal 0 ' />
