Finding the control

There are many activities which can be used to find controls on screen/ applications. These activities are used to find or wait for an UI element.

Following are the activities that help in finding the controls:

• Anchor base
• Element Exists
• Element scope
• Find children
• Find element
• Find relative element
• Get ancestor
• Indicate on screen

We will discuss all these controls one by one.

Anchor base

This control is used for locating the UI element by looking at the UI element next to it. This activity is used when we have no control over the selector. That means when we do not have a reliable selector, then we should use the Anchor base control to locate the UI element.

We can use the Anchor base control as explained in the following section:

1. Drag and drop a Flowchart activity on the Designer panel of a blank project. Also, drag and drop an Anchor base control from the Activities panel. Connect the Anchor base control with Start.
2. Double-click on the Anchor base control:

3. There are two activities...