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Sub Activity – Browser

It includes activities for automating web interactions, including opening, navigating, and interacting with web pages.

The Browser category has the following sub activities:

Open UserBrowser: This activity is used to directly open Chrome and retrieve the browser window with selectors.

Input Properties:

  • URL: Location of the web page that needs to be opened.
  • BrowserType: Select the browser type as Chrome.
  • Attach Existing Window: Enable the check box to attach an existing browser window.
  • Arguments: Command line arguments to be used while starting the browser instance.

Output Properties:

  • UserBrowserWindow: BrowserWindow variable that stores all the information regarding the specified browser session.

Close Browser: This activity is used to close the specified browser.

Windows Properties:

  • BrowserWindow: Browser window variable that holds the specified browser session that needs to be closed.

Close Tab: Closes the tab/webpage that is open in the browser.

Windows Properties:

  • BrowserWindow: Browser window variable that holds the browser tab that needs to be closed.

Execute Java Script: This activity can execute a Java script code in the context of a web page.

Element Properties:

  • Element: UI element variable or browser window variable which is returned by another UI activity.

Input Properties:

  • Script: The code to be executed as a string.
  • Arguments: Input parameters to be passed between the script and robot.

Output Properties:

  • Result: It will be the formatted output of the JavaScript execution, which can be a primitive value, a dictionary, a list, or a wrapped Selenium if a DOM element is returned.

Go Back: This activity is used to go back to the specified browser’s history list.

Windows Properties:

  • BrowserWindow: BrowserWindow variable which holds the browser to which it should go back.

Go Forward: This activity is used to go forward to the specified browser’s history list.

Windows Properties:

  • BrowserWindow: BrowserWindow variable which holds the browser to which it should go forward.

Navigate To: This activity is used to direct the browser to a specified URL.

Windows Properties:

  • BrowserWindow: BrowserWindow variable which holds the current browser Session.

Input Properties:

  • URL: Location of the web page to which it should navigate.

Open Browser: This activity is used to Open a browser from different browser types at a defined URL and perform multiple actions within it.

Options Properties:

  • Headless Mode: Headless browser is a tool used for automations where the visible UI shell is not required.
  • Auto Download Driver: Automatically downloads the required web driver for web automation.

Input Properties:

  • URL: Location of the web page that needs to be opened.
  • BrowserType: Select the browser type (Chrome/Edge IE Mode/ MS Edge/ Mozilla Firefox/Internet Explorer/) Default browser is Chrome.
  • Preferences: The preferences for the browser instance.
  • Capabilities: Browser configuration prior to open.
  • Arguments: Command line arguments to be used while starting the browser instance.

Output Properties:

  • BrowserWindow: BrowserWindow variable that stores all the information regarding the specified browser session.

New Window: This activity creates a new window or tab in a browser window.

Windows Properties:

  • BrowserWindow: Browser window variable that holds the specified browser session which needs to be openned as a new window.

Input Properties:

  • WindowType: The type of window in which the browser session needs to be opened.

Refresh: This activity reloads the webpage of the browser that is specified in the input of the browser properties.

Input Properties:

  • BrowserWindow: BrowserWindow variable which holds the current browser Session that needs to be reloaded.

Set Web Attribute: This activity sets the value of the attribute of an element in the webpage.

Input Properties:

  • AttributeName: Name of attribute that needs to be changed.
  • Value: The value assigned to an attribute.

Switch Tab: This activity allows user to switch active tabs in the browser.

Windows Properties:

  • BrowserWindow: BrowserWindow variable which holds the current browser Session.

Input Properties:

  • Title: Title of the tab to which It should be switched.