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How to use Global Send Keys with a Password Including Special Keys

Digital_WorkerB — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 11:01:00 GMT

I am trying to enter a password into a Citrix window using global send key events and the username works fine, but I cannot send a password as is. My guess is that I would need to create individual key events for each special character, but that would reveal too much of the password in the design of the action.

Is there another approach?

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RE: How to use Global Send Keys with a Password Including Special Keys

PaulTrouton — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:22:00 GMT

I came across the same issue today and was able to solve it by storing the send key events control characters in the password data item in credential manager.

For example, if you wanted your password to be Password1 then you should store the following in the password data item:

<{SHIFT}p>{SHIFT}assword<{SHIFT}1>{SHIFT}

It will all appear encrypted in credential manager and in any password data items, but when you pass that to a navigate stage with send key events, it will correctly enter the password.

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Paul Trouton
RPA Lead Developer
Allen & Overy
Europe/London
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RE: How to use Global Send Keys with a Password Including Special Keys

vivek.kumar.goel — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 07:35:00 GMT

You can replicate the same issue by sending global send key events to RDP window.
The first letter of the password is always a problem with such screens. Hence the approach suggested by Paul can be tried. Please remember the first letter needs to be handled carefully, rest all will be fine.

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Vivek Goel
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RE: How to use Global Send Keys with a Password Including Special Keys

igorfp25 — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:19:00 GMT

Instead of saving the password with the Send Keys command, I have implemented a short code (in C#) to deal with it.
In my case, the code only replaces capital letters to its equivalent command in Send Keys.
So this way, you don't need to worry about the person in charge of credentials to make any mistakes.

String UpperLetters = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
String LowerLetters = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

for (int i = 0; i < UpperLetters.Length; i++)
{
	inputString = inputString.Replace(UpperLetters[i].ToString(), "<{#!#}"+LowerLetters[i].ToString()+">{#!#}");
}

inputString = inputString.Replace("#!#", "SHIFT");

outputString = inputString;

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Igor Ferreira Pinto
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