🍒 [v1.197] [UI-71923] Add UIA hint for interaction that remounts its target (UI-71923)#2106
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…et (#2105) When an interaction (click-before-typing, a click that expands a dropdown/popup) makes the app remount the target as a new node, an activity that resolved the old node faults with "UI element is invalid". Increasing delay or changing input mode does not help — it is a re-resolution problem. Fix: split into separate activities so the second re-resolves its target. Add a "Debugging a failed interaction with an element" section to uia-elements-interaction-guide.md and a one-line pointer to it from ui-automation-guide.md's Common UIA Pitfalls. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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UI-71923
What
Adds a debugging hint to the
uipath-rpaskill for a UI-automation failure mode that a coding agent could not diagnose on its own.Symptom: an interaction faults with
UI element is invalideven though the selector still resolves, and neither increasing the delay nor changing the input mode helps.Cause: the interaction itself remounts the target as a new DOM node (e.g.
TypeInto's built-in click-before-typing, or a click that expands a dropdown/popup). The activity resolved the old node; the next action hits the now-detached one. It is a re-resolution problem, not timing.Fix: split the interactions into separate activities (e.g.
ClickthenTypeInto) so the second re-resolves its target against the new node.Changes
references/uia-elements-interaction-guide.md— new section "Debugging a failed interaction with an element" (generic heading; covers the remount mechanism, the diagnostic tell, and the fix).references/ui-automation-guide.md— one-line pointer to that section from Common UIA Pitfalls (keeps the pitfall list terse and routes the agent to the fuller guide).🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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release/v1.197by @alexandru-petrescu.Jira issue: UI-71923
Conflicted files:
skills/uipath-rpa/references/ui-automation-guide.mdskills/uipath-rpa/references/uia-elements-interaction-guide.md