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Hi community

I run a lot of finance automations using PAD with Business Central. A few of the areas of the business use differing tenants.

I basically need to launch a browser and login to those different tenants - one easy way of doing this is by having more than one chrome profile - but PAD doesn't seem to support launching different browser profiles (unless I am mistaken?)

So I suppose my questions are

1.Is it possible to choose a specific chrome profile on launching a browser?

2.If not is there another way of selecting a different MS login when using different tenants of online services?

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

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AS-06081019-0 1,738 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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PAD launches the browser with the login you are in. However, if you want to switch to different profiles you use sendkeys method using arrow keys/enter keys etc. This needs to planned properly using delay actions so that it opens desired profile.
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Try passing the URL: URL+“--profile-directory=PAD”(check it) when opening the browser

hope it helps!!

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tezza192 18 on at

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I have tried this - it doesnt work - i get no option to change tenant

Is it possible to launch browser with a selected Chrome profile?

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VJR 7,635 on at

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Try this

- Use Run application with the below command using the right parameters

chrome.exe --profile-directory="profile name"

- Then use the Attach option of Launch Chrome to attach to the above opened Chrome instance

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tezza192 18 on at

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Thanks - this works great

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neerajverma7876 6 on at

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Could you please explain URL: URL+“--profile-directory=PAD” ?? I want to launch "Profile 1" for "google.com" directly?

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Hello, I have a similar situation, I need to run different chrome profiles, but this solution does not work for me, after I try to join a running instance of chrome, I get the error "Could not get control of Chrome (browser communication error; make sure the add-in is installed)."

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Try this
LOOP LoopIndex FROM 1 TO 50 STEP 1 @@statistics_Input_Number: '1' @@statistics_Action_Submit: '1' Display.ShowCustomDialog CardTemplateJson: '''{ \"type\": \"AdaptiveCard\", \"version\": \"1.4\", \"id\": \"AdaptiveCard\", \"body\": [ { \"type\": \"Input.Number\", \"id\": \"profil\", \"value\": 1.0, \"label\": \"${profil_Label}\" } ], \"actions\": [ { \"type\": \"Action.Submit\", \"id\": \"Submit\", \"title\": \"${Submit_Title}\" } ] }''' CustomFormData=> FormProfil ButtonPressed=> ButtonPressedProfil2 @profil_Label: $'''No Profil''' @Submit_Title: $'''Ok''' SET BrowserVar TO $'''\"C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe\" --profile-directory=\"Profile %FormProfil['profil']%\"''' System.RunApplication.RunApplication ApplicationPath: $'''C:\\Program Files\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe''' CommandLineArguments: $'''www.google.com --profile-directory=\"Profile %FormProfil['profil']%\"''' WindowStyle: System.ProcessWindowStyle.Maximized ProcessId=> AppProcessId WebAutomation.LaunchChrome.AttachToChromeByUrl TabUrl: $'''https://www.google.com/''' AttachTimeout: 5 BrowserInstance=> Browser Display.ShowMessageDialog.ShowMessage Message: $'''akun %FormProfil['profil']%''' Icon: Display.Icon.None Buttons: Display.Buttons.OK DefaultButton: Display.DefaultButton.Button1 IsTopMost: False ButtonPressed=> ButtonPressed WebAutomation.CloseWebBrowser BrowserInstance: Browser END

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