I am trying to spy a pop-up. But I couldn't recognize any element using any spy mode(Even I tried region mode)on the pop-up. It was throwing an error "Can't perform any spying operation". When I inspect the popup it was created using JQuery Event Handlers. Does anyone know how to solve the spying operation?
There are two reasons why this might be occurring:
Your system's OLEACC.DLL file is not properly registered - More information is available here on how to resolve this, but the solution boils down to the following:
Open a Command Prompt (CMD.EXE) with Administrator privileges
Navigate within that to the location of your OLEACC.DLL file (usually 'C:\Windows\System32' directory)
Run the following command to re-register the DLL file:
regsvr32 OLEACC.DLL
The window is created in the window hierarchy in such a way that it technically doesn't reside within the application you're attached to - Popups generated by certain web applications are not spyable using HTML mode. Instead, you'll have to create an entirely new object with new attaching logic to be able to spy this particular window. More information on this issue is available at the following resources:
Blue Prism Knowledge Base Article - 'The window spied was not found in the model' error when spying
Blue Prism Browser Automation Guide
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Using Application Modeller I indentified some HTML elements on a Chrome web page (for clicking on stuff, fill input fields...)
When my bot clicks 'Attach' button, the Chrome will open the Chrome open tool (where you can browse for files). My problem is that I can't identify elements inside that open tool. I used some writers to type in the path field and file name field the path and the file name, but the bot is acting like the Chrome open tool does not exist. Do you have any idea about how can I make the bot complete those fields?
It's common that browsers (for security, among other reasons) will spawn these file browser windows as separate processes. This means that Blue Prism won't see the resulting window as a part of the same browser.
You'll need to either create a new object to attach directly to the window, or detatch and re-attach to the file chooser window once you've opened it. Attaching by the "Window Title" is usually the quickest and easiest way to target these.
Once you've attached to the file chooser window, you should be able to spy the interface elements there. If you're using the detatch and re-attach functionality within your preexisting Business Object, don't forget to detatch and re-attach to your browser instance once you've completed the required actions in the file chooser window.
I've been working whit Blue Prism on a project that was using at one point IBM mainframe application(ICBS). I've mange to get it working, but only problem that I had was Login in to therminal.
My robot lunched application as mainframe app, but after that therminal is asking me to login in, but its doing that in standard Win window - whit option to enter login and password.
Problem is that Blue Prism is not able to spy on thoes elements because it's launched as mainframe.
If I launch this app as standard win application, then there is no problem in login in, but after that working whit mainframe screen is imposible because I can't spy on specyfic elements of the green screens.
I was trying to launched as mainframe, then using another object(Win app) to logon and then go back to mainframe but I cant to Attach Win app Object to allready launched mainframe object. I get "could not be found" error when I'm tring to Attach.
Any idea how to get it working?
Cheers,
RAFEL
Well, there's no other way than having two different objects.
The first one should be the "Mainframe Application" object that is launching from executable file.
The second one should be the "Windows Applications" object that is attaching to appearing window.
I am guessing that you're having a problem with attaching the second object to the window.
The Blue Prism when trying to attach to the object is checking two things:
The name of the process - you can find that information using task manager.
The window title of the target Application - that's the title that is visible at the top of the window.
There is possibility to use *,# and others as wildcard characters.
You'll have to try there around there to get that working.
Below you can find a print screen of one of mine objects that attaches to windows photo viewer.
I am trying to automate certain things in a remote desktop using surface migration techniques in blueprism.
I have to open Windows Remote Desktop and enter the login details, but i am unable to identify it in application modeller. After launching mstsc.exe using the application modeler the identify button disappears and turns back to launch and due to this i am unable to use region mode to identify or spy elements.
Any solutions for this?
Snippet of the application modeller
I solved this problem creating 2 objects.
- Object one will execute "mstsc.exe"
- Object two will attach an existing mstsc.exe execution
So you have to launch mstsc.exe in your first object then go to the second one and attach it. If everything goes fine, you'll be able to use the application modeler in your second object and identify whatever you need to.
Example first object:
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Example second object:
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I am getting "Not Connected" issue while executing a blue prism object. Currently, I'm working for browser application and I have given browser URL and window title in application modeler.
If I launch the application by navigation stage it's working fine but I'm expecting like already running browser we need to attach and has to do some automation operations on it.
We tried with navigation stage with actions attach/Active application, getting issue "Not connected".
Can anyone help on this issue?
Blue Prism best practice is to call “Attach” page at the beginning of each action to make sure that BP is connected to the application. This page should look like this:
Start
Read stage – to check connection status (it will return Flag with connection status)
Decision stage – connection flag
If connected – go to End
If not connected – Navigation stage – Attach
You also need to provide proper input parameters for Attach action, for Browser automation (Internet Explorer) you need to provide at least process name: “iexplore” & child index: 0 (it depends on your TabProcGrowth registry settings).
Blue Prism also recommends to start browser apps using Utility – Environment VBO & Start Process action. There are 2 inputs: Application – Path to internet explorer exe file & Arguments – webpage address.
If you want to learn more about Browser Automations in Blue Prism I recommend you to familiarize with Blue Prism Guides available on Blue Prism Portal - https://portal.blueprism.com/.
Do you have Attach bookmark created? When you are working with object you are creating bookmarks resposible for different things in your obcject(login, start etc) you need to create Attach bookmark.
I never had any problems with attaching to app, except mainframe app.
Copy your Navigate step from Launch bookmark, then create new one(call it attach) and paste that Navigate step. Then Edit it, Chane from launch to attach and in Properties you need to fill "Window Title" and "Process Title". Window title, you have it at the top window bar. Process title, youll find it in Windows Task Menager - Processes.
Hope it helps!
Well, I am not sure exactly sure if this is your problem but let me try as my issue is close to your issue.
I had encountered this: There is no current stage
So what I did was to trigger the reset button in the upper left corner of the Process Studio. Screenshot below.
Then it works like a charm!
This is because the launched instance of the application is different from the one BP is searching for. To solve this issue close the current instance of the app and Launch it from the Application Modeller.
I have a link http://xxx.yyy.net/zzz/OpacAccess?wsdl that opens in IE and shows the methods of web service correctly.
However, I have a console application where I'm trying to add a web reference but I'm not able to get it working. I right-click the project and click "Add service reference..." From here, I click "Advanced..." and from there I click "Add Web Reference...". When I enter the URL here, it shows me the methods correctly, but I'm unable to add the reference (the button is greyed-out) and the following error is shown:
There was an error downloading 'http://xxx.yyy.net/zzz/OpacAccess?wsdl'. Unable to connect to the remote server. No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:80.
If I use the visual studio command-line with the following command,
wsdl http://xxx.yyy.net/zzz/OpacAccess?wsdl
, I get "There was an error processing http://xxx.yyy.net/zzz/OpacAccess?wsdl", followed by the above errors.
Thanks very much in advance for any assistance you could provide.
In general, when you can access something through the browser, but not through another program you believe should work like the browser, then the problem is that the other program is not, in fact, behaving like the browser does.
The most common reason for this is proxy settings. The browser will usually have them set (perhaps automatically through Group Policy or the equivalent), and your other program will not.