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How to Use Utility - Environment::: Kill Process

GracieDevine — Wed, 25 May 2022 15:06:35 GMT

Hello,

I am writing a new process and would like to ensure that all instances of Chrome have been terminated- I'd like to add a 'Terminate Chrome' action at the beginning and end of my main process flow.

In the Utility -Environment object, it requires the process name, but I can't type it in and don't understand if I should be adding 'Chrome' or 'My business object'.

I found this article asking the same thing a few years ago, but I don't understand the answer. How do I call my process at 'the object level'? Could someone please give me an example of how to implement this solution?

Screenshot of what I mean below, how do I create the item that needs to be placed in process name?

Thank you,
Gracie

Re: How to Use Utility - Environment::: Kill Process

devneetmohanty07 — Wed, 25 May 2022 15:29:29 GMT

Hi Gracie,

In order to kill any application using the 'Kill Process' action, you need to get the process name. To get the process name, keep your application opened up and then go to Task Manager:

Expand the application and then right-click on any of the container applications being displayed there that you want to terminate and click on 'Properties':

Now here in the next window you can see the actual process name that you need to provide:

In your case, just provide "chrome" and it should work for you.

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Regards,
Devneet Mohanty
Intelligent Process Automation Consultant | Sr. Consultant - Automation Developer,
WonderBotz India Pvt. Ltd.
Blue Prism Community MVP | Blue Prism 7x Certified Professional
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Email: devneetmohanty07@gmail.com

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Re: How to Use Utility - Environment::: Kill Process

GracieDevine — Wed, 25 May 2022 15:49:12 GMT

Hi Devneet,

I found the process the way you showed me in Task Manager, but I still can't type 'chrome' into 'Process Name' in the utility object. Is there a way to create a data item, or some drag and drop element that I can put in 'Process Name'?

Re: How to Use Utility - Environment::: Kill Process

devneetmohanty07 — Wed, 25 May 2022 16:10:07 GMT

Hi Gracie,

That's a pretty weird issue as you should ideally be able to write the text while using any actions like I am able to do:

I think some issue is there with your application as of now. Can you try to save the object then log out of the environment and close the Blue Prism interactive client.

Try to restart the machine and see if you are able to now write or not?

Re: How to Use Utility - Environment::: Kill Process

GracieDevine — Wed, 25 May 2022 17:04:20 GMT

Ooooooh, I feel so stupid! I wasn't writing it under 'value'. I filled it in and ran the process, it works. Thank you so much!