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Sub Activity – Keyboard

The section in UI Automation enables automated interaction with applications by simulating keyboard actions.

The Keyboard activity has the following sub activities:

Send Hotkey: This activity sends keyboard shortcuts to a specified UI Element.

Input Properties:

  • KeyModifiers: enter a hotkey to perform a specific action or command.

Options Properties:

  • Activate: Enables the specified UI element field.
  • ClearField: Removes existing text from the specified UI element field.
  • ClickBeforeTyping: The specified UI element field is clicked before sending the keystrokes.

Send Keys: This activity allows the users to send keys to a specified UI Element.

Input Properties:

  • Keys: Input text that is to be written in the specified UI element field.

Options Properties:

  • Activate: Enables the specified UI element field.
  • ClearField: Removes existing text from the specified UI element field.
  • ClickBeforeTyping: The specified UI element field is clicked before sending the keystrokes.
  • DelayBetweenKeys: The time interval, in milliseconds, between each keystroke.

Send Secure Keys:  This activity lets users pass keys as a Secured String variable instead of a String variable format.

Input Properties:

  • Keys: Secure string that is to be written in the specified UI element field.

Options Properties:

  • Activate: Enables the specified UI element field.
  • ClearField: Removes existing text from the specified UI element field.
  • ClickBeforeTyping: The specified UI element field is clicked before sending the keystrokes.
  • DelayBetweenKeys: The time interval, in milliseconds, between each keystroke.