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 Fiona Fok (FionaCherry)
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FionaCherry Member since 2017 24 posts
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Posted: Feb 13, 2018
Last activity: Feb 14, 2018
Posted: 13 Feb 2018 17:58 EST
Last activity: 14 Feb 2018 23:13 EST
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Clipboard used by RPA

Hi everyone,

We have a situation. We are leveraging the clipboard to get text from a control (by clicking given copy button). Then, we have a power shell script launching the RPA bot. The get text function only works when the PC is focused/active. The get text function failed as soon as we disconnect from that PC.

We are leveraging the script from this link: https://pdn.pega.com/community/product-support/question/how-copy-text-clipboard-automations

At this time, we are unable to get the text from the control (control.text does not work). I have tried passing the control into the script component (Windows.Window), but no luck of getting the text as well.

Any suggestions can resolve this issue? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Fiona

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Posted: 6 years ago
Posted: 14 Feb 2018 23:13 EST
Andrew Grondin (grona) GCS Solutions Engineer I
Pegasystems Inc.
US

Disconnecting from a PC is going to generally cause problems for automations. Instead of using the clipboard, which is dependent on Windows being active, try using a container variable internal to the automation.

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