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Migrate a Robot to a Different Browser Engine

Basic Engine Robots come with two different browsers: The classic engine for backward compatibility with previous Kofax Kapow products and the default (WebKit) engine for legacy web applications. However, these browsers might not be compatible with every internal application or Internet website. If you encounter problems using any of the browsers, you can migrate your robot to other browser type in Design Studio using the following procedure. See Types of browsers for more information.

Migrating a Robot to the Classic Browser

  1. Right-click a Basic Engine Robot identified by a blue icon in the tree view and select Migrate.
  2. Select robots (and snippets) that you want to migrate and click Next.
  3. In the Backup step, specify the folder to contain the backup files and click Finish.

    After Kofax RPA migrates your robot, you can see that the color of the robot icon is changed to orange .

    When migrating a WebKit robot that has steps with legacy waiting criterion, this waiting criterion is converted to "Wait Real-Time for Timer Events" and "Max. Wait for Timer Events (ms)".

Migrating a Robot to the Default Browser

  1. Right-click a Basic Engine Robot identified by an orange icon in the tree view and select Migrate.
  2. Select robots (and snippets) that you want to migrate and click Next.
  3. In the Backup step, specify the folder to contain the backup files and click Finish.

    After Kofax RPA migrates your robot, you can see that the color of the robot icon is changed to blue .