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1. select left-most tab in Edge browser; 2. Vertical Tabs popup appears

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1.) I have an application in PAD where I need to select multiple businesses sequentially and run the same 2 reports in each on for download in CSV.

I select the business name 1 from a dropdown on the main tab, navigate to the proper URL, initiate report 1 (which opens up new tab), then c;icl on first (leftmost tab), initiate report 2, then select business name 2 and repeat for total of 9 businesses.

The method I select the left-most tab is by sending a mouse click to its screen location. The name of the left-most tab changes depending on which report I previously ran.

I want to ba able to make this PAD portable to use it on different computers with different screen configuration - thus no mouse clicks at specific coordinates.

Any ideas?

2.) Another problem in this same automation (perhaps fixing problem 1. will fix this).

Sporadically, happening to a different business each time, the Tab Actions Menu will pop up:

This breaks the flow. Normally from here I would {tab}{enter} to download the CSV and process it.

Sometimes the entire flow works fine. Other times problems occur.

Any help or ideas is appreciated for problems 1. and/or 2.

David

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MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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For problem number 1: Send Keys {Control}({PageUp}) should go 1 tab to the left of the current tab, so how I see it, put this send keys in a loop with the loop maximum being the current number loop you are on. Something like this:

Loop 'this is your existing loop to run the reports - assuming it runs 1-9, it holds the LoopIndex for how many times you need to back (1 time after running the first report, 2 times after running the second report and so on. If you don't have a LoopIndex with this number, you could set a variable and +1 to the variable after running each report so you know how many tabs you need to send keys. Once you have that variable, run the following Loop.

Loop 'this is where we get back to the first tab Loop 1 to %LoopIndex% (or other variable you have determined) increment of 1

Send Keys {Control}({PageUp})

End (Loop for send keys)

End (Loop for main flow)

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VJR 7,635 on at

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Make use of Sendkeys like:

Ctrl 1 to navigate to the first tab

and after work on any tab is done Ctrl F4 to close the current tab.

that way you will not have to deal with too many tabs at once.

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