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# Additional options for application screens and elements

# Additional options for application screens and elements in Universal App Connector {#ariaid-title1}

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## Summary of Additional Options for Application Screens and Elements in Universal App Connector

This guide details the additional options available for application screens and elements within the Universal App Connector, allowing users to validate and perform various operations on their applications.
The options are categorized based on the type of application, ensuring tailored functionality for each platform.
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## Key Features

* **Application Types:** Options vary for Java, Windows, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge applications, including operations like refresh, capture, and delete.
* **Screen Options:** Users can refresh screens and elements, set focus, capture elements, add custom elements, and display existing elements in two modes---UI Automation and Active Accessibility.
* **Element Options:** Operations for elements include refreshing, highlighting, re-capturing, deleting, executing default actions, and getting or setting values and text.

## Key Outcomes

Utilizing these additional options enables ServiceNow customers to effectively manage application screens and elements, enhancing interaction with hidden or complex elements. This streamlines workflows by allowing precise control over application functionalities, leading to improved automation and user experience.  
Validate and perform additional operations for the added application screens and their
captured elements. The additional options for the application screens are categorized based on
the application type.

## Type of application screens, their additional options, and descriptions {#contextmenu-application-screens__section_r2j_r1z_bfc}

In the Screens and elements pane, right-click the application screen to perform the following additional operations.
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| Type of application | Additional options |
|-|-|
| Java | * Refresh screen * Refresh screen and elements * Focus * Capture element * Delete {#contextmenu-application-screens__ul_apm_jhx_gwb} |
| Windows | * Refresh screen * Refresh screen and elements * Focus * Capture element * Show elements * Delete {#contextmenu-application-screens__ul_qgz_nhx_gwb} |
| Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge | * Refresh screen * Refresh screen and elements * Focus * Capture element * Add custom element * Delete {#contextmenu-application-screens__ul_bnl_vhx_gwb} |
[Table 1. Type of application screens and their additional options]

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| Additional action | Description |
|-|-|
| Refresh screen | Rematches the selected screen based on the screen match rules or locators that you defined. |
| Refresh screen and elements | Rematches the selected screen and its child elements based on the screen match rules or locators that you defined. |
| Focus | Sets the targeted application screen into focus. |
| Capture element | Captures elements from the application screen. For more information, see [Use the Universal App Connector](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/e7fRbZwETFMQ_4jkZj1ZCQ "Create automations for your Windows, Java, Google Chrome, and Edge browser-based applications by using the Universal App Connector (UAC). Configure the applications from a single, unified connector and capture the screens and elements or screen controls such as check boxes, and buttons. Use the methods of these screens and elements to build your automation."). |
| Add custom element | Adds a custom element to the application screen. For example, you can interact with hidden elements that you cannot directly capture from the web page. |
| Show elements | Displays the Windows Elements dialog that displays all the existing elements in the target application screen in a tree view. You can select the required element from here and add it to the application screen. For Windows application screens, the elements are displayed in two modes. They are UI Automation and Active Accessibility. UI Automation is the default mode. For example, when you capture a notepad windows screen and right-click and select Show Elements, the following modes are displayed.Figure 1. Elements displayed in UI Automation mode for a Notepad Figure 2. Elements displayed in Active Accessibility mode for a Notepad |
| Delete | Deletes the application screen. |
[Table 2. Description of additional options for the application screens]

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## Additional options for elements and their descriptions {#contextmenu-application-screens__section_ohl_d1z_bfc}

In the Screens and elements pane, right-click the application element to perform the following additional operations. For example, for a Windows screen.Figure 3. Additional options for elements, for example, for a Windows screen
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| Additional option | Description |
|-|-|
| Refresh | Rematches the selected element based on the element match attributes or locators that you defined. When you capture an element in both UIA and AA modes of a Windows application screen, you view both elements in the Screens and elements pane. For example, Text Editor_UIA and Text Editor_AA. When you capture a Text Editor element in Active Accessibility mode and perform the Refresh action on that element, the Target objects preview pane displays two text editors with different types, such as window and editable text. |
| Highlight | Highlights the element on the target application screen. |
| Re-capture | Recaptures an element from the application screen retaining the same name. |
| Delete | Deletes the element. |
| Do Default Action | Executes the default action of the target object. This the same action you perform by clicking, pressing Enter, or using another common method of activation. The default actions are listed for the following UI elements. * Button: Clicks the button * Check box: Toggles the check (select/clear) * Link: Opens the link (navigate) * Combo Box: Opens the drop-down * List Item: Selects the item * Tree View Node: Expands or collapses the node {#contextmenu-application-screens__ul_g3f_stz_bfc} |
| Get Value | Retrieves the value of the target object, which typically represents the data the object holds or displays (not the label or name). |
| Set Value | Sets the value property of the target object. |
| Set text | Sets text to the element if applicable. |
| Get text | Retrieves text from the element if applicable. |
| Click | Clicks the elements if applicable. |
[Table 3. Additional options for elements and their description]

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