UI.Vision RPA Upgrade Completed
What's new with V8.3.9 released August 9, 2023
- - Improved: OCRExtractByTextRelative
- - Improved: DemoXClickTextRelative macro
- - Improved: OCR settings tab (clarified some settings)
What's new with V8.3.8 released August 2, 2023
- - Added: Visual commands (e. g. XClick) have now a "Jump to image" option in the right-click menu
- - Improved: setProxy - now with password support
- - Improved: OCRExtractByTextRelative
- - Improved: XClickTextRelative
- - Improved: OCRExtractByTextRelative
- - Fixed: Ui.Vision was not saving the recorded Selenium locator list in local storage mode
- - Fixed: ${!LAST_DOWNLOADED_FILE_NAME} (since V6.2.6 it was always empty)
- - Fixed: continueInLastUsedTab=1 failed (macro was opening a new tab)
New: Proxy switching with a password-protected proxy
New: Visual commands (e. g. XClick) have now a "Jump to image" option in the right-click menu
What's new with V8.3.6 released May 13, 2023
- - New command: XMoveText
- - New command: XMoveTextRelative
- - New command: OCRExtractByTextRelative
- - Fixed: ${!LAST_DOWNLOADED_FILE_NAME}
- - Fixed: White Window bug
What's new with V8.3.2 released March 25, 2023
- - New command: SaveItem | Locator. SaveItem retrieves the element that is defined by the locator (typically a picture/image) from the browser cache.
What's new with V8.3.1 released March 17, 2023
- - New command: XClickTextRELATIVE | text#R5,12.
- - Fixed: Log file reporting
The new XClickTextRELATIVE command explained.
What's new with V8.2.7 released January 27, 2023
- - New command: XClickText | text.
- - Improved: We removed the "_v2" notation from the if/elseif commands.
- - Fixed: Local OCR issue
What's new with V8.1.23, released December 1, 2022
- - Improved: Close tab bug has been fixed and the overall tab handling improved.
- - Added: New internal variables for the absolute tab index ${!current_tab_number} and the relative tab index ${!current_tab_number_relative}. Relative means relative to the macro start tab. Example: The relative index of the start tab is 0, the index of the first tab to its right is 1 and the index of the tab to its left (if any) is -1. This is the same value as used by the tab switching command.
- - Fixed: Auto-close download bar
- - Fixed: !OCR_LEFT_X bug
What's new with V8.1.3, released October 13, 2022
- - Added: The &savelog= parameter supports full paths now and saves the log directly via the XModule module instead of triggering a download. This is much faster and more reliable. We recommend to update your automation scripts to use this new feature.
- - Added: The localStorageExport command supports full paths now, for example "LocalStorageExport | path=c:/test/log.txt"
What's new with V8.1.1, released October 10, 2022
This update some new features and bug fixes.
- - Added: openBrowser command - run the macro in a new browser window.
- - Added: New option in right-click menu "Play from here **and keep variables content**" - very useful for debugging longer and more complex macros.
- - Added: New internal variable !current_tab_number
- - Added: In addition to !ocry and !ocry, more information about the found text is avaiable now: !ocrheight, !ocrwidth, !ocr_left_x and !ocr_right_x. These are populated with the result (text found location) and width variables. We updated "DemoXDesktopAutomation_OCR". It runs now purely with OCR, no image recognition.
- - Improved: Added marker (cross-hair) in the center of screenshot box during screenshot creation - this helps you to see exactly where the XClick even will land.
- - Fixed: Break command does not reset !times
- - Fixed: #180 error when starting UI Vision from the command line
- - Fixed: !URL undefined when no OPEN command is used
What's new with V8.0.1, released July 22, 2022
This update brings local OCR (called "XModule OCR"). Yes, you heard that right! You can now use high-speed local OCR to automate your tasks. We have been working on this for a long time, and this is the first release of it. Oh, and even better: This is a free update for all users - including the free RPA users.
Future PRO and Enterprise RPA users: Thank you for evaluating our RPA software. Are you currently considering buying the PRO and Enterprise version? If so, then please do so soon. A significant price increase is planned for August. This will be the first price increase after more than five years. Existing users (and anyone that still buys in July) are not affected by this.
- - Added: Local RPA OCR! - To use it, you must update your XModule app to the 2022 version. Just install the new version. There is no need to uninstall the older version first.
- - Improved: Executescript_Sandbox can return arrays (again).
Local OCR is available for Windows and Mac (Linux in the future). It is part of the UI.Vision XModules add-on app.
IMPORTANT FOR RPA VERSION 7.0.x: If you use macros that run more than ~2 minutes you MUST install the XModules. The XModules app prevents Chrome from stopping UI.Vision macros after about 2 minutes at a random point in the macro run. This behavior is not a bug in our software, but a "feature" of the new Chrome API. But again - simply installing the XModules resolves this issue.
What's new with V7.0.14, released June 14, 2022
This update fixes again some regression issues reported in the RPA forum. If you encounter other issues, please continue to report them! Thanks again for your patience during this Chrome Manifest V3 transition. But with UI.Vision running on V3 now, you can rest assured that your RPA software is future-proof.
- - Fixed: JS Dialog click OK issue
- - Fixed: Several other issues
What's new with V7.0.13, released June 1, 2022
This update fixes again some regression issues reported in the RPA forum. If you encounter other issues, please continue to report them! Thanks again for your patience during this Chrome Manifest V3 transition. But with UI.Vision running on V3 now, you can rest assured that your RPA software is future-proof.
- - Fixed: Regex issue
- - Fixed: PANEL_CALL_PLAY_TAB error after a few seconds if Chrome is offline
- - Fixed: XModule "xfile"" connection is lost after switching storage mode
- - Fixed: Several other issues
What's new with V7.0.11, released May 9, 2022
- - Fixed: XPath retry not done
What's new with V7.0.10, released May 2, 2022
- - Fixed: Waiting for element loaded timer not displayed.
- - Fixed: FIND IMAGE and SELECT IMAGE buttons had no reaction in desktop computer vision mode
What's new with V7.0.8, released April 25, 2022
- - Fixed: !clipboard, !url variables not defined.
- - Fixed: OnDownload command does not wait.
What's new with V7.0.7, released April 18, 2022
This update completes the manifest V3 update. It is the first release running with manifest V3.
There are a few breaking changes:
- - Changed: ExecuteScript_Sandbox only supports ES5 Javascript (Workaround: If you want to use ES6 features, use executeScript instead).
- - Changed: ExecuteScript_Sandbox can no longer return arrays (Workaround: Use executeScript instead).
What's new with V6.3.3, released January 16, 2022
This update fixes the annoying memory leak that shows during longer RPA automation sequences. Now there are no more open major issues. If you still encounter a breaking issue please report a bug in the RPA software forum.
What's new with V6.3.2, released January 3, 2022
Happy New Year 2022! The first update of the year fixes the regression issues introduced with the previous V6.3.1 update. Thanks to everyone that reported a bug.
What's new with V6.3.1, released December 20, 2021
With this update we start the transition to Chrome Manifest V3 , which is an updated version of the Chrome extension system. Ideally these changes should be completely transparent to you, so there is nothing for you to do. UI.Vision should work exactly as before.
But if you encounter any issues with this update please report them in the RPA software forum, so that we can fix them ASAP.
If needed, you can always return to a previous version from the RPA software archive.
New UI.Vision RPA tutorial
Video content: Jump to Web Browser Automation | Windows Automation | Mac Automation | Linux Automation | Command Line API.
What's new with Windows XModule V2021-3b, released October 8, 2021
- - Added: Windows 11 support added (download link). New Screencapture XModule version number is now V1.3.6.
What's new with V6.2.8, released September 8, 2021
- - Improved: Easier UI: In Robotic Process Automation (RPA) mode all Selenium IDE-style web automation commands are hidden from the command dropdown.
- - Fixed: Some smaller issues
What's new with V6.2.7, released August 3, 2021
- - Fixed: Chrome V92+ issue: MAX_CAPTURE_VISIBLE_TAB_CALLS_PER_SECOND
What's new with V6.2.6, released May 17, 2021
- - Added: DemoXMove macro (How to move slider with XMove)
- - Improved: editContent triggers onblur event
- - Fixed: visionLimitSearchArea issue
What's new with V6.2.2, released May 1, 2021
- - Added: Inline comments
- - Added: New command: Assert | variable | value
- - Added: New command: Verify | variable | value
- - Added: Button to collapse the logs area
- - Added: Customize a wait time for capturing desktop screenshots
- - Improved: Lines without command are automatically considered to be comments
- - Fixed: visionLimitSearchArea ${!imagex} ${!imagey} values
- - Fixed: OPEN relative path support
- - Fixed: Regression: closeRPA=1 did not work
New button: Collapse Logs area.
What's new with V6.1.1, released March 22, 2021
- - Added: New command: XMouseWheel for scroll wheel automation
- - Added: New "pure echo" display filter
- - Added: "nodisplay" for faster macro replay speed
- - Improved: Replaced "Export to HTML" with "Create AutoRun HTML".
- - Improved: XClick replay speed in browser mode
- - Improved: XClick calibration in browser mode
- - Fixed: Source code view: Key down now applies to macro code, not the macro list tree view
- - Fixed: Macro fails with " detail: still same ipc secret" if page is already loaded
- - Fixed: Local OCR server option no longer limits OCR conversions
Simulate mouse wheel scrolling with XMouseWheel. The video shows how to automate Google maps to zoom in on the city of Oxford (-200) and then zoom out again (+200). We use two XMouseWheel for each zoom simply to make things a bit slower for us humans to see.
What's new with XModules V2021-03, released March 3, 2021
- - Improved: Faster desktop screencapture (up to 50% faster)
- - Added: Linux: Support for RPA on Linux with Wayland (Fedora, CentOS, Redhat)
Do you need an older UI.Vision version?
If you need an older UI.Vison version, you can get it from the UI.Vision Extension Archive. We beta test each production release, but with the amazing variety of use cases for UI.Vision RPA there is always a chance that a rare regression bug escaped our QA tests. For this reason we keep an archive of older UI.Vision RPA and XModule versions. So if you need, you can temporarily downgrade and are up and running again quickly. But please don't forget to report the downgrade reason to us so that we can fix whatever the issue is.
What's new with V6.0.6, released February 5, 2021
In addition to the RPA core (browser extension) we updated the XModule RPA tools, too: Get the new XModule V2021-3 for Mac, Windows and Linux
- - Added: Easier input image creation for desktop automation. This requires the new updated XModule V2021-2 (see link above).
- - Added: bringIDEandBrowserToBackground - minimize the RPA software itself so that it does not block your desktop automation. This is the opposite of BringBrowserToForeground.
- - Fixed: Click command to open select drop menu failed for certain XPath
- - Fixed: After an error macro, next log file status keeps the error, even if macro run is ok
- - Fixed: Nested IF bug
- - Fixed: Check/Uncheck did not work on some websites
- - Fixed: $!Times was not clearly defined in nested loops.
- XModules Native App V2021-2:
- - Added: Faster desktop screencapture
- - Added: PKG installer for macOS
- - Added: AppImage installer for Linux
- - Added: Support for RPA on Linux with Wayland (Fedora, CentOS, Redhat)
- - Fixed: XY was sometimes sent to wrong place when 2 or more monitors are connected
- - Fixed: Green/pink box detection issue on HiDPI systems
- - Fixed: XClick not calibrated
New RPA tool: Capture screen images more quickly for desktop automation.
What's new with V5.9.5, released November 17, 2020
- - Added: New commands: Break and Continue to exit loops
- - Fixed: Chrome throttling
- - Fixed: Command line API: Error status not cleared
- - Fixed: Open (some) select drop menu does not work
- - Fixed: Click event issue
- - Improved UI: Tool to create new encrypted text and password strings
- - Improved UI: Ignored errors are now marked in orange instead of red. Red is reserved for real errors.
Do you need an older UI.Vision version?
If you need an older UI.Vison version, you can get it from the UI.Vison Extension Archive. We beta test each production release, but with the amazing variety of use cases for UI.Vision RPA there is always a chance that a rare regression bug escaped our QA tests. For this reason we keep an archive of older UI.Vision RPA versions so that you can temporarily downgrade and are up and running again quickly. But please don't forget to report the downgrade reason to us so that we can fix whatever the issue is.
What's new with V5.8.8, released August 8, 2020
Download the new RPA XModule from here
- - Added: XType support for KEY_SPACE, KEY_HOME, KEY_END (requires RPA XModule V2020-8)
- - Added: TripleClick (requires RPA XModule V2020-8)
- - Added: visualGetPixelColor | x,y | result - get color from any point (Result in HEX notation). See also our open-source color picker.
- - Added: Multi-line input for executeScript
- - Added: Encryption tool. And now encrypted strings work with TYPE, SENDKEY and XTYPE (no longer just for password fields)
- - Added: "!OCRTableExtraction
- - Added: Bring browser to background with "bringBrowserToForeground | false""
- - Improved: sourceExtract * now non-greedy, so * means .*? instead of .*
- - Improved: SELECT and FIND button are now disabled when a command is selected that can not use them.
- - Improved: "selectWindow | TAB=OPEN" can now work on a blank start page
- - Improved: If the LOG mode is set to ECHO, **ignored** warnings are not shown.
- - Fixed: Cannot read property 'toUpperCase' of undefined
- - Fixed: Select does not trigger onchange event
New XModule 2020-8, released August 7, 2020
Download the new RPA XModule from here
- - Added: XType support for KEY_SPACE, KEY_HOME, KEY_END.
- - Added: TripleClick (requires next UI.Vision Core update, later this month)
- - Added: Mousewheel support (requires next UI.Vision Core update, later is month)
- - Improved: Mac files are signed and notarized now. This means they have passed the anti-malware check by Apple.
- - Fixed: (Mac) Real-User Module now compatible with Chinese input methods
- - Not yet added: Multi-monitor support for XClick. This is the next feature we plan to add.
What's new with V5.7.5, released June 2, 2020
- - Added: Alternative Selectors - the IDE records and keeps all possible selectors and uses them if main selector fails.
- - Added: Error messages show line numbers and calling stack (RUN subroutines)
- - Added: Export macro with images, CSV and subroutines (RUN) as ZIP
- - Added: Import macros directly inside a folder (use right-click or hamburger icon inside folder to import)
- - Added: Get the name of the downloaded file with !LAST_DOWNLOADED_FILE_NAME
- - Added: sourceExtract <html*</html> works now. * can match \n on Chrome now, but not Firefox. Firefox workaround: Use regular expression explicitly, something like regex=/<html(.|\n)*</html>/g
- - Added: Toggle "Desktop automation" notice with xdesktopautomation=true/false
- - Added: !StringEscape = true/false: If true /n /r are interpreted as escape sequence (default). If false they are interpreted literally.
- - Added: New context menu options: "Play until this point" and "Record from here""
- - Added: Full path support for csvRead and csvReadArray
- - Improved: Test suite reporting provides more details and error information
- - Improved: "data-kantu" tag only inserted in web page when "Run embedded macros" options are enabled on the API page
- - Improved: Reset status color to white if macro is edited.
- - Improved: Main macro gets a new orange macro status color if the error is in subroutine, and not in the main macro.
- - Improved: Replaced "Delete" circle with "Toggle comment" (thanks for this suggestion anonymous user)
- - Fixed: Times command does not reset the ${!Times} Variable
- - Fixed: Heartbeat timeout if long string is filled into text box
- - Fixed: setProxy authentication
Export macros with everything: Macro, images, CSV and all subroutines (as used by RUN command) all stored inside a ZIP file.
Import macros directly at the folder level. Images, CSV and subroutines are imported as well.
What's new with V5.5.7, released March 29, 2020
- - Added: New command: forEach
- - Added: New command: times
- - Added: New command: csvReadArray
- - Added: New command: csvSaveArray
- - Added: New command: executeAsyncScript and executeAsyncScript_Sandbox
- - Added: Embedded macros can have images via URL now e. g. XClick | button_dpi_96.png@0.8#2[https://a9t9.com/image.png]
- - Added: Selenium IDE style array support e. g. ${a[0][5]}
- - Added: Disable the hard-drive logs when "No log" is selected
- - Added: New second OCR engine with store | 2 | !ocrEngine. OCR engine 2 is often better for number and special character OCR.
- - Fixed: In the bookmark code, `closeKantu: 0` does not work
- - Changed: To reduce the start-up time the macro list not loaded when the RPA software is started from the command line or the bookmark. This behavior can be controlled with loadmacrotree=1 or 0 (default is 0).
- - Changed: closeKantu is now closeRPA (but closeKantu continues to work, no need to change any scripts)
- - Changed: Default for continueInLastUsedTab is now 1
- - Changed: Reduced table view line height - so you can view more commands at once
- - Removed: Deprecated commands removed from the command drop down. But the commands itself continue to work just as beforee. And you can still edit and add these commands in the source code view tab.
- - Fixed and added: Several smaller items as reported in the RPA forum
This updates adds a new screen scraping OCR engine which is especially suited for alphanumeric OCR.
New screencast: Automating file uploads
What's new with V5.3.17, released January 27, 2020
- - Added: Syntax check for command line arguments
- - Added: Option to stop test suite execution after an error. New internal variable !GLOBAL_TESTSUITE_STOP_ON_ERROR = true /false
- - Fixed: XModules not installed issue
- - Fixed: Memory leak/Crash
- - Fixed: Folder loop gives an error if RUN is used
- - Fixed and added: Several smaller items as reported in the forum
Updates 2017 - 2019
For older updates please see the RPA changelog 2018-2019.
Need a specific feature added?
If you need a specific feature added or if your most annoying bug still not fixed, then please let us know in the RPA software forum. We can only add features and fix bugs that are reported to us.
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