Important Note: The scope of the activity is to support chrome version 83. When you come across the following issue, requesting you to roll back the chrome version. " This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 83 (SessionNotCreated)"
OpenWebBrowser
When to use the OpenWebBrowser activity
This activity helps you launch the browser and load a particular webpage using the indicated URL.
Figure 1
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OpenWebBrowser |
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Technical Reference
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Figure 1.1
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Select the chosen browser type: 32-bit or 64-bit |
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Select the chosen browser to launch the application |
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Specify the unique name of the session |
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It enables you to enter the website's URL |
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Displays the action that the activity performs in the workflow |
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Specify whether to continue executing the workflow even if the activity fails |
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It enables running of the robot in the backend |
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Define the condition that you prefer to validate. It supports only Boolean value |
Bit can be selected based on your system configuration.
Scenario
Assume you want to extract the data from the Google Wikipedia and the extracted information/data is required to be translated into French language.
Illustration
Activity: The OpenWebBrowser activity helps you open the website for the action that needs to be performed for further processing.
Let's start building the bot
Step 1 Open the SmartDesigner tool
Step 2 Open a new workflow
Step 3 Drag an Open browser activity (Refer figure 1.0,1.1 & 1.2)
- Go to the property section and select the "Bit," based on your system configuration as 32 bit/64 bit
- Double-click the activity and click on the Spy symbol to open the SmartSpy window on the screen
- Select the Browser type, based on your requirement
- Specify the unique name of the session. Here, the session is Wiki
- Specify the website link in the "URL" field that needs to be acted on
- Click "Go" to load the webpage, once the webpage is loaded the property fields gets auto populated.
Figure 1.2
