We would like to consult a solution front to issue presented by Blue Prism with the TAW Application (TimeAware2).
We have made different test and attempts to be able to Launch de TAW Application within Blue Prism without any success.
Below we present these mentioned cases so that you can give us another alternative to the issue:
1). In the first instance we perform the standard procedure of the operation with BluePrism to launch the application:
- From Application Modeller Wizard we define and indicate that the application is "Windows Application"
Then we indicate the path of file.exe because we have installed the software on the local system (without intervention of any other system).
- We mark the "Restrict to non-invasive automation techniques".
- We select the "Embedded (default)".
- Done the configuration for to launch the application, with the first default element, we select the "Launch" option on the Application Modeller and we noticed that the application is load but BluePrism does not enable the "Indentify" option:
In this case, each times we select the "Launch" option waiting for "Identify" option this does not work.
- Within this context, we tried to identify some element during while selecting the "Launch" and loading the application in the front, but this also did not work, Blue Prism did not recognizing any element of the TAW application. In this test we used the "Indentify" option (forced) in UI Automation mode, but the result of the attributes were not those of the TAW Application:
- We opted to try all options available in the Application Modeller for the different types of application: Java-Based ; Browser-based (Chrome and IE) and Mainframe Application (in this case, we selecting Microfocus .net API because we know TAW was developed in VB6). This didn't work too.
2). Without any success of all these options, we choose to try the Launch and Attach the application by actions in the object:
This did not work too.
3). Finally we opt for the hardest options: Inputs by SendKeys and Region Mode:
- With Sendkeys we can to write de User, Password and loged into the application, but then, inside the application it's impossible to navigate with sendkeys (contemplanting that the application never Launch correctly).
- By Region mode, we simulate the graphic parameters of the TAW Application in the background and we forced the inputs (USER,PASSWORD,LOGIN) with sendkeys. It was possible to simulated "click's" on different regions of the application, however some regions fail and this "solution model" is totally unstable for this operation.
We want to clarify that all options were tested in BluePrism 6.3 as in 6.4.
Couldn't launch and attach this application in Blueprism by all these means, that is why we need an alternatives.
Thank you for your support.
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Paola López
Cencosud S.A.
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