Windows automation

Windows automation is the automation based on manipulation of controls of Windows™ applications.

• Guidance to use Windows automation
  To start working with Windows automation, see the guidance to have a proper environment during the development and implementation of Windows automation.

• Main, dialog, and child window
  Windows are sections of the viewing area on your screen that are usually rectangular-shaped, where the application's controls, also called elements, are loaded. You interact with these controls by using your mouse, keyboard, or other input device.

• Active window
  For the operating system, the active window is the window where the cursor has focus to interact with its elements.

• Controls
  Automate applications with a graphical user interface (GUI) by referencing the application's controls in your script. Controls are applications’ user interface elements that display content or allow user interaction, such as button, text fields and menus.

• Selectors
  Selectors are a combination of one or more attributes that are used in IBM Robotic Process Automation to identify GUI controls. You can see the attributes of an application’s control by mapping them using the recorder in IBM RPA Studio.

• Using the recorder to map Windows application's controls
  Learn how to watch the attributes of an application's controls and create commands automatically with the recorder.

• Actions for Windows automation
  Learn how to use commands to manipulate Windows™ applications like to attach windows to the scope before you manipulate them, search or click controls, and get and set values to controls, for example.