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Drop Down Menus in UiPath (Find Children & Select Item)

Free tutorial from andersjensenorg: Drop Down Menus in UiPath (Find Children & Select Item). Video walkthrough, exercise files, hints, and solutions.

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Get all elements of a drop-down menu with Find Children

The 'Find Children' activity in UiPath is often used to retrieve the value of all elements in a drop-down menu (combo-box or list box).

The output is stored in the variable type IEnumerable. An IEnumerable is a non-generic collection and read-only. It's faster than a list (= lazy loading).

Task: Find all items in the drop-down list below. Next, use a Find Children to get the attributes from the drop-down into an IEnumerable, then iterate through each element and extract the vendor's name.

Select specific elements in a drop-down

The 'Select Item' activity is used to select elements in a drop-down menu (combo-box or list box).

You can select:

  • A specific item
  • Some items
  • All items

Task: Create an automation that selects specific elements and then all elements (hint: see the previous paragraph).

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  1. Zulfiqar Memon

    I want to select an item from drop down list. No keyboard option is available to select that particular item. Select Item is not working with me.

  2. Aiza

    Where is drop-down menu list

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