https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65179#M17819 Can you not use the Utility - File Management object to work with files and folders? This does not require any modelling of the UI.If you must model the UI then try attaching to the original explore.exe before launching the window. Alternatively, include the window title to see if you can make the attach details more specific. Thu, 01 Sep 2016 13:18:00 GMT John__Carter 2016-09-01T13:18:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65178#M17818 Hi all, I am unable to attach to the window explorer launched by Blue prism, as there are two instances of explorer.exe found during the same. I had tried changing the child index also, but had not been able to attach to the launched explorer window. Currently before trying to attach, in-order to make sure that single instance of explorer.exe exists, I had to manually kill all the explorer.exe due to which the task bar vanishes. Below are the version details of Blue Prism tool being used. BP version : 5.0.12 Windows edition : Windows 7 Enterprise System Type : 64 bit OS Please find the screenshots for your reference. Appreciate any suggestions. Thu, 01 Sep 2016 12:05:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65178#M17818 ChethanaManjego 2016-09-01T12:05:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65179#M17819 Can you not use the Utility - File Management object to work with files and folders? This does not require any modelling of the UI.If you must model the UI then try attaching to the original explore.exe before launching the window. Alternatively, include the window title to see if you can make the attach details more specific. Thu, 01 Sep 2016 13:18:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65179#M17819 John__Carter 2016-09-01T13:18:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65180#M17820 Hi Chetana You can use a specific attach business object using the navigate item. You attach to the IE frame using the parameters Window Title, Process Name, Child Index. Most often i use wildcards for the window title to make sure that it is able to attach to the right instance. See attached Fri, 02 Sep 2016 16:35:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65180#M17820 Stefande_Moor 2016-09-02T16:35:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65181#M17821 Hi John, I tried attaching to the process, before launching the window and it did work. But , going further, any actions involving activating the file explorer window or dragging the files from the required file explorer window -seems not to work due to multiple instances of explorer.exe after the window is launched. Hence I need to make sure that only single instance is available or should be able to attach to the launched file explorer window, so that ,after attaching to the process, I would be able to perform further actions on the window. Appreciate your help! Thanks, Chethana Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:46:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65181#M17821 ChethanaManjego 2016-09-12T10:46:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65182#M17822 Hi SRAdeMoor, Appreciate your input. I am working with file explorer, not IE and hence, I am unable to identify the window using the parameters. Thanks Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:51:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65182#M17822 ChethanaManjego 2016-09-12T10:51:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65183#M17823 Forget spying the file explore UI, use the Utility - File Management object. Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:56:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65183#M17823 John__Carter 2016-09-13T12:56:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65184#M17824 Hi Jhon, Checked the Utility - File Management object, but I don't find any action that I can use to drag files from an explorer window. Appreciate your inputs. Regards, Chethana Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:35:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65184#M17824 ChethanaManjego 2016-09-14T12:35:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65185#M17825 The utility does not use the explorer UI, it manipulates files and folders programmatically. By 'drag' I'm guessing you want to move a file - the utility has an action called Move. Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:45:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65185#M17825 John__Carter 2016-09-14T15:45:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65186#M17826 Hi Jhon, I can only 'drag' the files, as the files have to be dragged and dropped onto an area on a web application. Hence , I cannot utilize any actions from File Management - VBO Regards, Chethana Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:04:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65186#M17826 ChethanaManjego 2016-09-15T12:04:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65187#M17827 Hi Chethana I would try to figure out how the website handles the inputted path, since dragging a file is really just passing a reference to its fully qualified path. Maybe it is as simple as calling a javascript function with the file path as argument. ""Invoke Javascript Function"" can be called as an Action on the Browser Application. Use the developer tool while dragging a file, and have a look at what is really going on in the console. It is very likely javascript, and then you are able to invoke the function without dragging the file. Wed, 12 Oct 2016 18:52:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65187#M17827 Anonymous 2016-10-12T18:52:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65188#M17828 Chetana - so what you are trying to do is drag a file from Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) to Internet Explorer (iexplore.exe)? If that is the case then I don't think it can be done, because you can't manipulate 2 applications with the same object, and you can't execute a drag with 2 objects. I would investigate other mechanisms - it sounds unusual that dragging would be the only option, is there no Add File button? As Indika says, for the web app to react to drag & drop there must be some client side script. Another option would be to try copy & paste using global keystrokes. Thu, 13 Oct 2016 13:27:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65188#M17828 John__Carter 2016-10-13T13:27:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65189#M17829 Hi John, we are using the Utility - File Management object to Kill iexplore. But the thing is there are some dormant sessions open (used powershell script get-process -Name iexpl*) and Utility is unable to KILL it. We have tried loops to ensure it kills but it does not kill. Another thing that we want is BP should pick the next iexplore session but its not doing that. Its always sticking to the dormant one. Is there a way to make this work. Fri, 26 May 2017 06:36:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65189#M17829 charanjiv_janju 2017-05-26T06:36:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65190#M17830 Hi, Can you not attach using a child index? If we assume that the task bar instance is associated to the child index of 0 then the windows explorer should have a child index of 1. try that and see if it works, Lee. Thu, 08 Jun 2017 12:42:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65190#M17830 Anonymous 2017-06-08T12:42:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65191#M17831 Hello John, Just wanted to check if you found any feasible option to work with such scenario ? If Yes, Could You Please share the same as we have one similar requirement. (Drag from Windows explorer and Drop to a Web application ) Thanks ! Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:01:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65191#M17831 DharmendraJhari 2017-09-07T19:01:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65192#M17832 There is a need in 'Click and Hold' and 'Click to release' action by the sounds of things. Since BP doesn't have an alternative, I would say that a 'Code' stage is actually appropriate here. Windows has an option called 'ClickLock' you can enable it in mouse settings with value set as 'Short' for ClickLock settings. In this case you would use Navigate stage: To click where the file is: Code stage: To Click and hold for lets 10 milliseconds Navigate stage: To click where the file needs to be There are plenty of examples online to do this. Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:42:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Product-Forum/Multiple-file-explorer-instances-Window-automation/m-p/65192#M17832 ivan.gordeyev 2017-09-14T15:42:00Z