What is the Difference of All the Scoping Activities?

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As far as I know, there are many activities to “define a scope” to all the activities under it,
and that sometimes there are activities which cannot run without a scope above it (like Type Text Activity).

But how do these differ from each other and when should I use which one?
1 Open Browser
2 Attach Browser
3 Open Application
4 Attach Window
5 Get Active Window
6 Element Scope

been looking for it but doesn’t find any satisfying explanation about this.

(This problem made me thought of the above question,
so I think that by understanding the above I will have better understanding about the below)
Want to open browser and access a web page, but when I use Open Browser it often leads to exceptions like this. So I thought to use Start Process to open the browser, and Type Into the address bar the URL. But Type Into needs a scope, which one should I use? (By the way, Attach Browser and Attach Window now working) with exception:
Cannot find the UI element corresponding to this selector: (XAML included, open-browser.xaml (6.6 KB)
)

Any insight is appreciated.

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Hello!

Are you still having the Open Browser issue?

Check if you can solve it using this guide:

About the Scoping Activities, you can check it all on the following knowledge base:

Regards,

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  1. Open Browser: Enables us to open a browser with a specified URL and execute multiple activities within it.

  2. Attach Browser: Enables us to attach to an already opened browser and perform multiple actions within it. This activity is also automatically generated when using the Web recorder.

  3. Open Application: Launches an application and enables us to perform multiple actions within it. Using this activity, we can pass the arguments as well.

  4. Attach Window: Enables us to attach to an already opened window and perform multiple actions within it. This activity is also automatically generated when using the Desktop recorder.

  5. Get Active Window: Retrieves the current active Window and enables us to perform multiple actions within it.

  6. Element Scope: A container that enables us to attach to an existing UI element and perform multiple actions within it.

You may come across most of the activities while going through “Selectors” .

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Hello @Lucas.Pimenta, I was using Mozilla Firefox, and I guess the computer used for the real automation would have no administration right so I’m afraid it will become a problem soon or later. But thank you for the references, checked it all :slight_smile:

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Thank you for the easily-understood comparison!
If you would satisfy my curiosity, as we know “Attach Browser” requires the browser already opened so I tried to open it using “Start Process” as in the XAML I attached but it didn’t work. Any idea why?

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Hi,

I checked your .XAML file and tried below thing with Start process. it actually worked.
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Please check by passing argument as “calendar.google.com” to Start Process activity and then continue working with it.

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Then it seems like the similar error with the one i referred in my question (I have to clear Mozilla cache each time) and sometimes it works sometimes it won’t with no clear reason) :frowning: