Application Instance Opens a new window

[Baba_Karim_Abdulai]

Hello UiPath Family,

I have an issue with the Use Application/Browser activity. I have placed the activity in Try Catch using the activities the Send Hotkeys in the Try and Click in the Finally. This is because there is a popup message that the bot will have to click on OK to continue but sometimes, it is not able to click on the OK and faults so I used the Send Hotkeys and the Click so that if one fails, the other would work.

Now the problem is that, I am testing the click and so I have manually opened the URL to the point that the popup to click OK is showing but sometimes instead of it clicking on the OK popup, it opens a new browser. Can I prevent it from opening a new browser because it opens a new one, it makes the bot fault.

Please assist.

[sonaliaggarwal47 (Sonali Aggarwal)]

Hi @Baba_Karim_Abdulai

Please try to follow below steps to ensure new browser/tab is not opened.

Use Application/Browser always opens a new window

If you are certain that a Chrome window is already opened, and you do not want to open a new one, set Open=Never. If there’s no specific window you want to attach to, but just any, you can omit the “title” part of the window’s selector. To open a new tab, you can try sending hotkey Ctrl+T, or by injecting JS (How to open new tab of the same browser - #3 by Yoichi)

[Baba_Karim_Abdulai]

Thank you @sonaliaggarwal47

[sonaliaggarwal47 (Sonali Aggarwal)]

@Baba_Karim_Abdulai

let me know if suggested solution works for you.

[SorenB]

Hi @Baba_Karim_Abdulai

You should use a Use Application/Browser activity with property Open set to IfNotOpen.
Then use a Check App State activity to check for (and handle) the pop-up that might occur.

Regards
Soren