How hide Open Browser

Hi,

I’m using open browser activity, i want to hide the browser and get the data. I used hidden option but it is not working. Any other alternative.

what do you mean by hide?
you could just minimize it.

I want to do extract the data with out opening the window (back-end Operations ). Is it possible to extract data with out opening the browser or any other option?

Hi there @vickyms57,
You can use the ‘Hidden’ property within ‘Open Browser’.

However, you will only be able to use API-based interaction, Simulate Type/Simulate Click.

Thanks,
Josh

Hi,
Will Element Exists activity works if we use he ‘Hidden’ property within ‘Open Browser’?

Hi @vickyms57,

Yes, Element Exists may return true and the element hidden also.

Regards,
Arivu

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Hidden option is not working for Open Browser activity. I’ve used Get text and Element Exists activity in Open Browser.

I have the same problem. I built a sequence with Open Browser and extracted data (did it not hidden to make sure it worked the way I was intending it too), but when I check the box for “Hidden” under Options of the Open Browser activity and then run the workflow again the browser is still visible as the workflow runs. The activities I have inside of the workflow are: type into, send hotkey, build data table, and extract data.

Anyone have troubleshooting tips when the “hidden” configuration does not operate as expected?

Hi @riosjosh

Welcome to our UiPath Forum! :slight_smile:

Could you maybe post some screenshots of your project? It would be worthy to investigate it a bit.

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Hi @loginerror thanks for the reply. I will do you one better. Attached is my workflow. And before I get a hundred comments sending me to LMGTFY :rofl: this is a training exercise for me, but will need to do something almost identical. This bot works as intended only that I would rather not have the bot searching in Google be shown to the user. AskaDA.zip (1.3 MB)

I am having the same problem when trying to open IE as hidden mode. It just ignores the setting and opens in foreground. Tracking this topic to maybe find a solution

I’m having the same issue.

Hi @BDHolm

Welcome to our UiPath Forum! :slight_smile:

Could you try with the latest UiPath.UiAutomation package? It seems to be working for me on Studio 2019.8.0-beta83 and the latest available stable packages.

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I am running 2019.4.20. Will the UiPath.UiAutomation package work with it?

Hi @BDHolm

Yes, the Studio version and packages are not depended on each other since they were decoupled in 2018.3 :slight_smile:

I have Studio 2019.10.0-beta.484 and I am facing the same problem.

Hi @Naseer_Ahmed_Khan

Welcome to our UiPath Forum! :slight_smile:

Could you let us know the versions of your packages as per the package manager?
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Check the box of “Enable Protected mode” of IE and it should work.

Its working only in IE not in chrome

Hi everybody,

I used to have this “hidden” property working perfectly under Chrome, but few months ago it stop working… now is showing the browser.
Don’t know what happened but I can’t make it work again in “hidden mode”

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Now, I’ve tested under IE, Chrome and Edge and it still showing the browser besides I have “Hidden = True”