UI Automation Activities

Last updated Jul 16, 2025

Supported Attributes for macOS

The following tables present the supported attributes for desktop applications in a macOS environment, from the Get Attribute activity.

Window attributes

Attribute	Description
app	The process name such as Google Chrome, Safari, Calculator (String).
title	It specifies extra information about an element (String). Most often shown as a tooltip text when the mouse moves over the element.
tid	The identifier of the thread that created the window containing the element
pid	The process identifier (Int32).
role	The role of an element (String). E.g. button, link
enabled	Indicates if the element is enabled (Boolean).
focused	Indicates if the element is focused (Boolean).
selected	Indicates if the element is selected (Boolean).
expanded	Indicates if the element is expanded (Boolean).
subsystem	The subsystem used to generate the selector (String). E.g. `<wnd />`.
text	It refers to all of the font, style, alignment, and other formatting associated with a given character or series of characters (String).
AppPath	The fully qualified path of the process' folder (String). E.g. `/System/Applications/Calendar.app/Contents/MacOS/Calendar.`
AppCmdLine	A string representing the arguments used to start the process the target belongs to. For example, it would return `-jar /Applications/TestApps/SwingSet2_withJava8.jar` for an application started with the command line: `/usr/bin/java -jar /Applications/TestApps/SwingSet2_withJava8.jar`.
isminimized	Returns `true` if the application is minimized, `false` otherwise (String).
ismaximized	Returns `true` if the application is maximized, `false` otherwise (String).
hwnd	It retrieves the native window handle (Int32).
position	The element position (Rectangle).
scaleFactor	Retrieves the scale factor that is currently applied to this element (Double). On macOS scale factor and DPI scale factor are generally equal to 1.
displayDpiScaleFactor	Retrieves the DPI scale factor of the display on which this element is placed (Double). On macOS scale factor and DPI scale factor are generally equal to 1.
IsJavaWindow	Checks if the given window implements the Java Accessibility API (Boolean).
relativeVisibility	The (partial) visibility of an element inside all of its ancestors (Boolean)
visibility	It specifies a value corresponding to the following visibility levels: 0 - Visible, 1 - Hidden, 2 - Offscreen, 3 - Partial (NVisibilityLevel).
foreground	Indicates if the process or browser tab is in foreground or not (Boolean).
driverVersion
alterIfDisabled
supportsMultipageScraping
disabled	Indicates if the element is disabled (Boolean).
readonly	Indicates if the element is read only (Boolean).
isSapWinGuiSession	Indicates if the application is a SAP application (Boolean).
sapScriptingStatus	Enum (UiSapScriptingStatus) representing the state of availabiltiy for SAP scripting: UI_SAP_SCRIPTING_INTERNAL_ERROR = 0, UI_SAP_SCRIPTING_NOT_INSTALLED = 1, UI_SAP_SCRIPTING_DISABLED_BY_ADMINISTRATOR = 2, UI_SAP_SCRIPTING_DISABLED_BY_USER = 3, UI_SAP_SCRIPTING_WARN_ON_ATTACH = 4, UI_SAP_SCRIPTING_WARN_ON_CONNECTION = 5, UI_SAP_SCRIPTING_OK = 6

Java attributes

Attribute	Description
AppPath	The fully qualified path of the process' folder (String). E.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application.
PID	The process identifier (Int32).
TID	The identifier of the thread that created the window containing the element
aaname	The Active Accessibility name. It represents the text that is displayed, such as 'Submit' on a button or 'First Name' for an edit box. (String).
aastate	The Active Accessibility state. Identifies the current condition of the control, such as checked for a checkbox. State advises whether a control can be selected, focused, and/or other types of changeable functionality. (String).
accessibleClass	The accessible Java class of the element (String).
accessibleFullClass	The fully qualified accessible Java class of the element (String).
app	The process name such as chrome.exe, msedge.exe, java.exe (String).
backgroundColor	The background color of the element formatted as ‘(Red, Green, Blue, Alpha)’ (String).
baseClassName	The underlying base Java class of the element (String).
checked	An attribute which specifies that an HTML <input> element is pre-selected (Boolean).
cls	It specifies one or more CSS classnames for an element. Or the class name of a native window handle (String).
editable	Indicates if the element is editable (Boolean).
enabled	Indicates if the element is enabled (Boolean).
foreground	An attribute that indicates if the process or browser tab is in foreground or not (Boolean).
foregroundColor	The foreground color of the element formatted as ‘(Red, Green, Blue, Alpha)’ (String).
fullClassName	The fully qualified name of the Java class of the element (String).
hasFocus	Indicates whether the element has focus or not (Boolean).
hasTableAncestor	Indicates whether the element has an ancestor with role ‘table’ or not (Int32).
hwnd	It retrieves the native window handle (Int32).
isMDIChild	Indicates whether the form is a multiple-document interface (MDI) child form (Boolean).
javastate	A list with all the available states of a java type of control (String). E.g. enabled, visible, editable.
position	The element position (Rectangle).
relativeVisibility	The (partial) visibility of an element inside all of its ancestors (Boolean)
role	The role of an element (String). E.g. button, link
selecteditem	The selected item of a dropdown element (String).
subsystem	The subsystem used to generate the selector (String). The selector's second level tag: webctrl, ctrl, uia, java, silverlight, sap.
text	It refers to all of the font, style, alignment, and other formatting associated with a given character or series of characters (String).
title	It specifies extra information about an element (String). Most often shown as a tooltip text when the mouse moves over the element.
virtualname	The accessible virtual name of the element (String). E.g. the static text label for a combo box.
visibility	It specifies a value corresponding to the following visibility levels: 0 - Visible, 1 - Hidden, 2 - Offscreen, 3 - Partial (NVisibilityLevel).
visible	Indicates if the element is visible (Boolean).
wndExtStyles	Returns a combination of Win32 API constants (WS_EX_MDICHILD, WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW, WS_EX_TOPMOST, etc.) that define an extended style of the window (Long). This is the full list of Win32 API constants for extended windows styles.
wndStyles	Returns a combination of Win32 API constants (WS_CAPTION, WS_BORDER, etc.) that define the window style (Long). This is the full list of Win32 API constants for window styles.

SAP attributs

Attribute	Description
AppPath	The fully qualified path of the process' folder (String). E.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application.
PID	The process identifier (Int32).
TID	The identifier of the thread that created the window containing the element
aaname	The Active Accessibility name. It represents the text that is displayed, such as 'Submit' on a button or 'First Name' for an edit box. (String).
aastate	The Active Accessibility state. Identifies the current condition of the control, such as checked for a checkbox. State advises whether a control can be selected, focused, and/or other types of changeable functionality. (String).
app	The process name such as chrome.exe, msedge.exe, java.exe (String).
cls	It specifies one or more CSS classnames for an element. Or the class name of a native window handle (String).
editable	Indicates if the element is editable (Boolean).
enabled	Indicates if the element is enabled (Boolean).
focused	Indicates if the element is focused (Boolean).
foreground	An attribute that indicates if the process or browser tab is in foreground or not (Boolean).
hasFocus	Indicates whether the element has focus or not (Boolean).
hwnd	It retrieves the native window handle (Int32).
id
leafid
name
sapClient
sapLanguage
sapProgram
sapReadyState
sapScreen
sapSession
sapSysName
sapSysNumber
sapSysSessionId
sapTransaction
sapUser
tooltip
type
isMDIChild	Indicates whether the form is a multiple-document interface (MDI) child form (Boolean).
position	The element position (Rectangle).
relativeVisibility	The (partial) visibility of an element inside all of its ancestors (Boolean)
role	The role of an element (String). E.g. button, link
selecteditem	The selected item of a dropdown element (String).
subsystem	The subsystem used to generate the selector (String). The selector's second level tag: webctrl, ctrl, uia, java, silverlight, sap.
text	It refers to all of the font, style, alignment, and other formatting associated with a given character or series of characters (String).
title	It specifies extra information about an element (String). Most often shown as a tooltip text when the mouse moves over the element.
virtualname	The accessible virtual name of the element (String). E.g. the static text label for a combo box.
visibility	It specifies a value corresponding to the following visibility levels: 0 - Visible, 1 - Hidden, 2 - Offscreen, 3 - Partial (NVisibilityLevel).
visible	Indicates if the element is visible (Boolean).
wndExtStyles	Returns a combination of Win32 API constants (WS_EX_MDICHILD, WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW, WS_EX_TOPMOST, etc.) that define an extended style of the window (Long). This is the full list of Win32 API constants for extended windows styles.
wndStyles	Returns a combination of Win32 API constants (WS_CAPTION, WS_BORDER, etc.) that define the window style (Long). This is the full list of Win32 API constants for window styles.

AX attributes

Attribute	Description
role	The role of an element (String). E.g. button, link
subrole	Subrole of an element, provides additional info on the element. E.g.: AXCloseButton
name	The accessible name of the element (String).
title	It specifies extra information about an element (String). Most often shown as a tooltip text when the mouse moves over the element.
identifier	Unique identifier of an element that is often provided by the application. It is not necessarily consistent across application versions and OS versions.
filename	Provides specific information for elements that represent FIles, for example, file items in Finder application.
url	It specifies the URL of a browser tab. It can also be found on items that represent file items in Finder application and represent a full path to the file: `file:///Users/{username}/Documents/EditableNonEditable/` (String).
value	Gives the value of an element. Represented by the text for text elements, 0 or 1 for checkboxes, and so on (String).
help	Provides an additional description text for the element (String).
enabled	Indicates if the element is enabled (Boolean).
focused	Indicates if the element is focused (Boolean).
selected	Indicates if the element is selected (Boolean).
expanded	Indicates if the element is expanded (Boolean).

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