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Hi all,
I'm automating SAP application and in order to be 100% sure that my automation clicks on the correct element, I want to use SAP shortcuts (for instance, "Shift+F5" and so on). Could someone help me to understand how I can make Power Automate desktop understand them? If some specific syntax is used, I would appreciate if you share the link to the whole list (including Ctrl, Alt, and so on) and provide and example for Shift+F5 combination (because often I need to combine more that 1 shortcut).
I thought about using an Action "Send keys" but, as I understood it receives a string input, meaning when typing Shift I would not pass a Shift button, but 5 keys. "S", "h", "i", "f" and "t".
Thank you!
Hi. Just stumbled back on this thread and I have a situation where I can not get it to work. The process I am automating is to open a Power BI report, then hit Control P to print. There is no UI Element for this so need to use the keyboard send keys
Has anyone every tried to Control P in a software? It is just not doing it
{Control}{(P)}
Has told me there was no active application. I then tried to capture the window in the flow step, but it does not seem to work.
Any advice?
Max, I had the same issue and did two things. Ensure Send text as hardware keys is active. And you need to use this as the text to send - Double nesting from the left one step at a time. {Control}({Alt}({F5}))UI
Code for UI Text
I will show you an example, maybe this will help
{F}{End}{Up:4}{Enter}{Right}{Home}{Down:7}{Enter}
See bold above for how to send the same key multiple times
@Serg24 I am trying to send 9x {Control}({Next}) in a row to an Excel spreadsheet that has just been opened via automation. This is to navigate through Excel sheet tabs, as I can't figure out how to do so otherwise.
I am unable to get the keystrokes sent to the Excel spreadsheet however. How can I direct the keystrokes to the correct window? I can easily send text to certain cells in the spreadsheet, but apparently that action is not enough to designate the spreadsheet as the active window.
EDIT: I figured it out, I used "Set Active Excel Worksheet" to designate the correct sheet tab.
Hi @Pmorg73 ,
I've just tested Ctrl+H combination and it works fine. It seems that you forgot to add curve brackets around H, so your expression should be: {Control}({H}), where {Control} and {H} are keys you want to pass and () around {H} is used for passing 2 different keys simultaneously.
To work with UI elements, that are not created at the moment of a flow start, I suggest you to use variables in path definition. It should give you a new UI element that you can use later on.
Thanks for this answer. I am struggling with using MS Word. I want to find and replace my text in a file. So the keyboard shortcut is Control+H
I entered a Send Keys of {Control}(H)
It does not seem to work. I am generally finding word hard to work with. Id tried it with UI elements, but when you create a new file it seems to forget what the UI is. For example Save,or New just fail in new docs. Is keyboard shortcuts the way to go, and what am I doing wrong in my example above?
Thank you very much, @adijain! This is exactly what I was looking for!
Would be nice if this explanation can be added to the official documentation on Send Keys.
Hello @Serg24,
The "Send Keys" Action sends keystrokes to the application that is currently active. It can either be sent in the background as a software input or can be mimicked like from a keyboard when sent as hardware keys. To simulate key-presses inside a Send Keys Action, use the following notation: {KeyCode}. where KeyCode is the capital form of the letter itself for letters A-Z. OemSemicolon for ';', Oemplus for '+', Oemcomma for ',', OemMinus for '-', OemPeriod for '.', OemQuestion for '?', Oemtilde for '~', OemOpenBrackets for '[', OemPipe for '|', etc.
Further {KeyCode1}({KeyCode2}) would send a combination of the keys {KeyCode1} + {KeyCode2}.
In your case for the key combination SHIFT + F5 you would need to use this key code: {Shift}({F5})
Please find the full list of valid key codes below:
Full List of Valid Key Codes
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