Device

Select the device where you want to open an application.

URI

• Specify the path to the application or a website to open. Use forward slashes in the path. For example:

  • C:/Program Files/SAP/FrontEnd/SAPgui/saplogon.exe
  • ="C:/Program Files/SAP/FrontEnd/SAPgui/saplogon.exe"
  • https://www.google.com
  • about://version

    See Access Websites in Desktop Automation for more information.

• For the built-in Windows applications, you can specify the process name, such as calc.exe.

• To open built-in Excel, specify the following:

  excel://new to create a new spreadsheet

  excel://<full path to spreadsheet>/<spreadsheet name>.xlsx to open an existing spreadsheet

  For more information, see Built-in Excel.

• For the RDP connection, specify the following:

  rdp://<username>\<domain>:<password>@<hostname>?<param1>=<value1>&<param2>=<value2>

  Where available parameters are:

  • d: domain (or type domain as part of username in URL)

  • g: desktop geometry (WxH)

  • a: connection color depth

  • Z: specify a number of seconds to wait before dismissing an extra screen during login (see below)

  For example: rdp://admin:AdminPassword@Server1

  If the system you are connecting to is configured to show an extra screen when the user logs in, set a number of seconds to wait before dismissing the extra screen during login in the Z parameter, such as rdp://admin:AdminPassword@Server1?Z=3. If this screen is not dismissed, the action may fail.

  Note The Open step with an RDP connection waits until the connection is established before continuing robot execution. If remote connection fails, an error message is provided.

Also use the Open step to work with cookies in the Desktop Automation built-in browser. See Cookie Management in the Desktop Automation built-in browser for more details.