Can you wait for multiple targets and assign variable for the one that triggered?

UI.Vision RPA General Discussion
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Hi All,

  • Simple explanation of what I’m looking for
    Is there a ways to wait for multiple targets to become visible at the same time
    Then if one of the targets becomes visible assign it a variable so you can goto click code for that specific target?

  • Why
    it will be faster then looking for each button one by one. As one button may pop up while I’m looking for another in my current implementation. I also feel it will slim down and optimise my macro

  • My current implementation
    looping and ignoring errors
    wait for (button a) to be visible with 1sec timeout
    if true gotolabel click button a
    wait for (button b) to be visible with 1sec timeout
    if true gotolabel click button b
    wait for (button c) to be visible with 1sec timeout
    if true gotolabel click button c
    end

  • What I want to do
    Wait for (button a) or (button b) or (button c) to become visible 5min timeout
    (button b) found assign b to WhatButtonVariable
    gotoif WhatButtonVariable == b click button b

There may be a better way to do this I’m just looking to be pointed in the correct direction or informed on if my current way is the only way.

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Currently UI Vision can only search for one image at once. But I think you can speed your code up by using visualSearch:

  • visualSearch | image1.png | i1
  • visualSearch | image2.png | i2
  • visualSearch | image3.png | i3
  • If_v2 | ${i1} > 0 || ${i2} > 0 || ${i3} > 0 … do something

|| means “or” in Javascript syntax. So the command checks if image1, 2 or 3 are found.

See also If {picture} then {do this}

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thanks for the info I’m going to try this with sourcesearch. Are there any other tools like visualseach and sourcesearch that can output in a custom variable?