Text-based automation: Text Exists, Find Text Position, Click Text, and screen string cleaning.
Traditional / Ad-Hoc Approach
Manual human clicks, brittle unmanaged scripts, zero centralized control, and missing fault tolerance.
Enterprise UiPath Standard
Production-grade execution, dynamic Unified Target selectors, automated retry recovery, and centralized governance.
Text activities locate and interact with elements based on the textual strings rendered inside them—useful when structural XML tags are missing or generic. Key Sub-topics Breakdown: • Subtopic 1: Text Verification: Text Exists, Find Text Position, and Click Text on screen • Subtopic 2: Text Extraction: Get Text, Get Visible Text, and Get Full Text activities • Subtopic 3: String Sanitization: Splitting, trimming, regex cleaning, and formatting extracted screen strings In enterprise automation environments, Text Activities guarantees reliable execution within the UiPath ecosystem. Key Sub-topics Breakdown: 1. Text Verification: Text Exists, Find Text Position, and Click Text on screen 2. Text Extraction: Get Text, Get Visible Text, and Get Full Text activities 3. String Sanitization: Splitting, trimming, regex cleaning, and formatting extracted screen strings
In virtual desktops or non-standard UI controls where element tags are generic `<div>` or `<pane>`, locating elements by their text is simple and effective.
The robot scans the target window's text rendering layer to find matching string characters and returns element bounds or clicks the text center.
Zero unmanaged credentials, explicit timeout ceilings, and structured audit logging.
This enterprise architecture diagram illustrates the execution lifecycle and component boundaries for Text Activities:
ENTERPRISE AUTOMATION PIPELINE (Text Activities):
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Design & Governance Plane: UiPath Studio & Orchestrator │
│ • Packages (.nupkg) • Modern Folders • Credential Assets / Queues │
└───────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┘
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┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Execution Plane: UiPath Robot (Attended / Unattended Agents) │
│ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ┌────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ UI Automation (Simulate / Chromium)│ │ Data & API Processing │ │
│ │ Unified Target & Object Repo │ │ LINQ / HTTP Web Requests │ │
│ └───────────────────────────────────┘ └────────────────────────────┘ │
└───────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┘
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┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Enterprise Exception Handling & Telemetry Sinks │
│ • REFramework States • Try-Catch / Global Handler • Audit Logs │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘At a global enterprise handling over 75,000 monthly transactions, operational teams implemented Text Activities to resolve critical production bottlenecks:
Manual intervention caused processing delays and human error in mission-critical transactions.
Deployed Text Activities with automated retry rules, dynamic error recovery, and end-to-end audit logging.
Eliminated 98% of manual touchpoints, achieved sub-second execution latency, and maintained 99.9% uptime.
Evaluate the trade-offs, performance SLAs, and production constraints when deploying Text Activities: