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Hi all,

I am having trouble with two parts of my web automation flow.

Each time I click on "cap accounting budget" a pop up window displays the data I am need to gather. the pop up window website is the same minus the project number at the end.
The location of the budget element is in the same place for each project but the value differs.
After closing the pop up, I need to return to the main browser in order to start the cycle again.

Is there a way to account for the pop-up that has different web addresses but follows the same process each time? How do I capture the budget element? I wanted to try 'capture based on text' and then 'contains' but I don't know to write that it should select any value that is within that data table cell. When I tried to close the pop-up to click back onto the main website, it worked for the first iteration but not the second.

In the image below, 1. is the hyperlink I click on, 2. is the pop-up with the information I'm looking for, and 3. is the hyperlink I need to click to get back to the main search screen.

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UshaJyothiKasibhotla 225 Moderator on at

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As far as I understood when a pop-up opens it opens in a new browser with another URL, right?
and the URL may be dynamic
I have faced the same issue
The URL value may contain one value which will be dynamically stored that value into a variable and pass into the new URL give this in launch the new Microsoft browser Edge.
For example see the image
in this image coin number is my variable that I have passed into the url
Hope this helps
Usha.

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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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You need to use Launch new Chrome but make it attach to an already existing window instead of launching a new one. This way you can attach to the pop-up and interact with it. Make sure you save this browser instance as a different variable. This way you will keep the main window as the original %Browser% variable and will be able to continue working with it after closing the pop-up, without the need to attach to it again.

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@Agnius wrote:
You need to use Launch new Chrome but make it attach to an already existing window instead of launching a new one. This way you can attach to the pop-up and interact with it. Make sure you save this browser instance as a different variable. This way you will keep the main window as the original %Browser% variable and will be able to continue working with it after closing the pop-up, without the need to attach to it again.

You've done it again! Thank you!

Updated flow. I could probably get rid of the "click link on web page' click on body 'overview...' since it's the same web page as the click on link below but it's working for now so I'll leave it.

This is the launch chrome for the pop-up

this is the launch chrome to return to the main page.

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Hi Usha,

Thank you for your suggestion. I don't know how to pass a variable into a URL but the bot was able to pick up the text I was looking for each time.

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