Attach by Window Titles as Collection

[jgregor4]

Upgrading from 6.10 to 7.2 I have noticed that attaching by window titles as collection no longer functions as expected.

If the web site is not launched the exception that is thrown is that Multiple Application match the criteria rather than the expected error that it has not been found.

As a work around we have had to change the attach action to loop through the window titles and utilise the single window title attach field - this does then give the correct exception when the site is not launched.

Is there a change to the window titles as collection function in v7 that I am not aware of?

[Eirik.Sandberg]

Hi!

I think we are seeing the same issue.
Did you find any more, or did you stick with looping window titles?

[mamichielsen]

I saw this yesterday, how I resolved it is that I would put "Window Title - Chrome", whereas before the update I didn't need the browser name.

[jgregor4]

I did try a few different ways with wild cards but it didn't work.
The issue with adding the browser name into the title is that we have "Profiles" in use when using MS Edge - the issue is that the profile name isn't always the same across the resources.  So it might say "xxxxx - MS Edge - Work" or "xxxxx - MS Edge - Work2" etc and with wildcards not working the end part of the window title is then not always matched

[jgregor4]

Hi, no we didn't find another way round it other than to loop the titles.

[swapnadeep_deb]

Hi @jgregor4 ,

We are facing the same issue as we progress with BP 7.4 migration. Attaching to certain applications is failing using the Window Titles as Collection parameter in all objects built for that application. We kept the Application manager mode as Embedded(default) as it worked in 7.1.1.  Was there a resolution or ticket raised for this ?

I can't seem to find it in https://support.blueprism.com/en/support/solutions/articles/7000090061-known-issues-in-blue-prism-version-7-4-releases

@Tejaskumar_Darji , @devneetmohanty07 , @Mukeshh_k , @expertcr , @ewilson , @Community_Team 

[steinarSBM]

Based on my memory while upgrading from 6.8 to 7.3 we had to detach from all apps/windows before reataching to same (or different) app. So in every action in an object, we put a Detach before every End-stage, in the same maner there is an Attach after every Start-stage.

[swapnadeep_deb]

Hi @jgregor4 / Community,

Issue has been resolved for us.

As per BP Docs, we need to use one of these as the field name in the Collection we are using in the Attach action: Window Title, Windows Title ,Window Titles, Windows Titles

We were using Tab Names,Titles as filed name and somehow this worked fine till 7.1.1

I have raised this with the BP team to confirm on how other field names worked previously even though the previous BP docs also mention to use one of the names as listed above.

[jgregor4]

We were using a collection called Window Titles with the field being Window Title.

Haven't tried anything different since the issue arose, we just had to change everything to loop through the collection and try each one with a recovery block around the attach