Navigation between tabs IE

RE: Navigation between tabs IE

stoquep0001 — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 15:11:15 GMT

I have find out what's going on!

I started programming with Selenium and I discovered that when I click on that button and it opens another tab, that new tab has no name (it is really empty!).

Since in Appian RPA we can only switch browser tabs by its name, it's not possible to use Appian RPA in that case.

My sugestion for Appian is to create new actions that lists browser tabs IDs and make it possible to switch them by IDs.

Anyway, thanks for everyone that read and tried to help!

RE: Navigation between tabs IE

stoquep0001 — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:22:26 GMT

Yes. I have tried a lot of regex to find that tab but without success.

RE: Navigation between tabs IE

Danny Verb — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:20:27 GMT

Have you tried using regex on the tab name using the Switch to method?

RE: Navigation between tabs IE

stoquep0001 — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:15:48 GMT

I can't do that because I'm not registered as a Customer/Partner of Appian. But we are in that process to become a partner. As soon as we get it done, I'll open that ticket in Support. Thanks for your help Danny!

RE: Navigation between tabs IE

Danny Verb — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:01:45 GMT

Can you create a ticket with Appian support? We can look into this futher

RE: Navigation between tabs IE

stoquep0001 — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 15:46:07 GMT

I can't click in anything on the new opened page and also 'Get attribute' doesn't works (it cannot find the element). That alternative of using 'Open browser' with the new URL is not an option because the link is not exclusively for that form tha is open when I follow the steps to open it.

I think there is a problem with Appian RPA because when I use the Selenium IDE Plugin, it records the window change (as you can see in the img bellow) and when I record these steps directly from Appian RPA, it don't records the window change.

RE: Navigation between tabs IE

Danny Verb — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:51:19 GMT

Sometimes browsers can be tricky and they can open a new window without context. If you click the button and the new tab opens right away, you should be able to try to click on anything on the page. If that isn't working, use the 'Get attribute' method on the button to extract the hyperlink. You can then use the 'Open browser' method to open a new tab with that link.