To perform Drag & Drop behavior, RPA Designer provides the Left Mouse Button Down and Left Mouse Button Up mouse click types that provide the Drag & Drop function.
These types are available for the following activities:
- Click Element
- Click Image
- Mouse Click
- OCR Click
See the Hyland RPA Activities documentation for more information.
To see which properties you need to be aware of to make it work, see the following screenshot of the Click Element activity's property grid:
To execute it correctly, you must first select the Click Type.
Left Mouse Button Down means that a left mouse click is performed on the indicated element that you want to move.
Left Mouse Button Up means that you release the left mouse button and drop the element to the destination you indicated before.
The method can only be used with the Click Method setting Element Coordinates. If this method is not selected, the activity displays the following error:
