How to identify one specific application running in the background?

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I currently have an application that is open. Let’s call this application - “ABC”.

I want to identify whether “ABC” is open or not. If it is open then do nothing and if it is not open then open it.

I used Get Process activity and got a list of all processes running in the background including “ABC”, however, how do i narrow it down for UiPath to only identify ABC and to ignore the other processes.

Can someone help me with this?

Thanks !

Anamika

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Hi @Anamika,

Use can use GetProcessesByName and pass “ABC” as parameter.

Regards,
PD

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There are some potential solotions.
If you know the process by name it is easy.
Search in your result for the process (for example Datatable search)
Or use try-catch and address your process, If it fails, start the process in the exception block.