Normally, the user would click on a text field on the screen and type the content using the keyboard. This is exactly what the text activities simulate. As input, the activities expect the specific text and the method by which the activity should set the text.
Hyland RPA provides the following methods:
| Activity | Description |
|---|---|
| Set Text | For simple text that can be read and set by any user, Hyland RPA provides the Set Text activity. It clicks and sets the text in the text box specified by the user. |
| Set Secure Text | Not all text is a simple string. When it comes to login credentials or other secure text input, Hyland RPA provides the Set Secure Text activity to enable interaction with a text field that expects a SecureString as input. |
| Get Text | This activity saves the input into a variable to get a text from an element. It stores the text from the indicated element in the inserted variable. Make sure the variable is a string. |
Other activities are designed to retrieve text from specific applications such as Word or PDF files.
See the Hyland RPA Activities documentation for more information.