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    <title>topic Navigate and extract data from SAP GuiUserArea in Product Forum</title>
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    <description>Hi,

I am tasked with automating a manual process using the SAP GUI. One step of this process involves navigating a tree-like representation of data to find a specific item.

Unfortunately that tree seems quite opaque to all of the spying modes offered by Blue Prism. By that I mean I can spy the whole control, but no internals.
When spying in SAP mode I can see that the element is identified as a GuiUserArea, which does not offer any useful actions to navigate or read. Apparently such a control is a collection of labels with no fixed structure.

I have attached a hopefully reasonably obfuscated screenshot of how that looks in SAP.

Does anyone have any idea how I can get at that data? I would be happy if I could just get the whole thing as text for instance and then pick through it using regular expressions. I am comfortable writing C# or VBA code stages if that helps.

Thank you for any pointers.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2018 12:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2018-10-02T12:58:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Navigate and extract data from SAP GuiUserArea</title>
      <link>https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Navigate-and-extract-data-from-SAP-GuiUserArea/m-p/77151#M29467</link>
      <description>Hi,

I am tasked with automating a manual process using the SAP GUI. One step of this process involves navigating a tree-like representation of data to find a specific item.

Unfortunately that tree seems quite opaque to all of the spying modes offered by Blue Prism. By that I mean I can spy the whole control, but no internals.
When spying in SAP mode I can see that the element is identified as a GuiUserArea, which does not offer any useful actions to navigate or read. Apparently such a control is a collection of labels with no fixed structure.

I have attached a hopefully reasonably obfuscated screenshot of how that looks in SAP.

Does anyone have any idea how I can get at that data? I would be happy if I could just get the whole thing as text for instance and then pick through it using regular expressions. I am comfortable writing C# or VBA code stages if that helps.

Thank you for any pointers.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2018 12:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-10-02T12:58:00Z</dc:date>
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