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Im working on a workflow using power automate desktop. Web application is opening multiple child web Tab. Can anyone let me know how to close the child web tab using Power Automate Desktop(PAD).  i tried send keys option eg Ctrl W and also Ctrl F4. but it's not working.

 

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    Highboy Profile Picture
    1,187 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    I have had the same problem, and solved it like this.
    When a tab is opend, I "launch" a new edge and attach it to the "tab".
    The when I have to close the tab, I just close the newly opend web browser instance, and it will then close the tab, and not the original brows, that spawned the tab.
    Still can't figure out why they wont add a "Close tab in edge" function.

     

  • Th11 Profile Picture
    on at

    HI @Highboy , Many thanks for your reply. In my scenario, clicking the attachment link opens a new tab where I may attach the file and continue the procedure. In order to "launch a new Chrome" for the recently opened tab, I attempted to. But for some reason it didn't turn out. Could you kindly send the screenshot for the circumstance mentioned above? Thanks!

     

    Regards,

    Thulasi.

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    Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Th11 

     

    Try this logic 

    Nived_Nambiar_0-1686625055479.png

     

    first you should launched a web session in edge (in my case i have attached at first step for demo purposes)

     

    for demo purposes bot has clicked on a link which opens a new tab

     

    Next bot will attach that tab by finding using the title and then finally close it using browser session variable using close web browser

     

    I think it would have limiatation when comes to title which may dynamically changes 

     

     

  • YeuHarng Profile Picture
    48 on at

    Is that possible to close 2 tab ? cuz when i use close web browser, it just close one tab 

  • kinuasa Profile Picture
    801 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Although this is an example, You can use script as below to close tabs.

     

     

    #PowerShell script to close browser tabs with UI Automation
    
    #Strings contained in the tab title
    $tabTitle = "Google"
    #Browser window handle
    $browserHandle = 1234567
    
    #UI Automation
    Add-Type -AssemblyName "UIAutomationClient"
    Add-Type -AssemblyName "UIAutomationTypes"
    $uiAuto = [System.Windows.Automation.AutomationElement]
    $pcdn = [System.Windows.Automation.PropertyCondition]
    $tree = [System.Windows.Automation.TreeScope]
    
    $elmEdgeWindow = $uiAuto::FromHandle($browserHandle)
    if($elmEdgeWindow -ne $null){
     $cndTabBar = New-Object $pcdn($uiAuto::ClassNameProperty, "TabStripRegionView")
     $elmTabBar = $elmEdgeWindow.FindFirst($tree::Subtree, $cndTabBar)
     if($elmTabBar -ne $null){
     $cndTabStrip = New-Object $pcdn($uiAuto::ClassNameProperty, "TabStrip")
     $elmTabStrip = $elmTabBar.FindFirst($tree::Children, $cndTabStrip)
     if($elmTabStrip -ne $null){
     $cndTabItems = New-Object $pcdn($uiAuto::ControlTypeProperty, [System.Windows.Automation.ControlType]::TabItem)
     foreach($elmTabItem in $elmTabStrip.FindAll($tree::Subtree, $cndTabItems)){
     if($elmTabItem.Current.Name.Contains($tabTitle)){
     $cndTabCloseButton = New-Object $pcdn($uiAuto::ClassNameProperty, "TabCloseButton")
     $elmTabCloseButton = $elmTabItem.FindFirst($tree::Children, $cndTabCloseButton)
     if($elmTabCloseButton -ne $null){
     $ivkTabCloseButton = $elmTabCloseButton.GetCurrentPattern([System.Windows.Automation.InvokePattern]::Pattern)
     $ivkTabCloseButton.Invoke()
     }
     }
     }
     }
     }
    }

     

     

    The code below is a sample flow:

     

    SET TabTitle TO $'''Google'''
    WebAutomation.LaunchEdge.LaunchEdge Url: $'''https://powerusers.microsoft.com/''' WindowState: WebAutomation.BrowserWindowState.Normal ClearCache: False ClearCookies: False WaitForPageToLoadTimeout: 60 Timeout: 60 BrowserInstance=> Browser
    WebAutomation.CreateNewTab.CreateNewTab BrowserInstance: Browser Url: $'''https://www.google.com/''' WaitForPageToLoadTimeout: 60 NewBrowserInstance=> NewBrowser
    WebAutomation.CreateNewTab.CreateNewTab BrowserInstance: Browser Url: $'''https://www.bing.com/''' WaitForPageToLoadTimeout: 60 NewBrowserInstance=> NewBrowser
    WebAutomation.CreateNewTab.CreateNewTab BrowserInstance: Browser Url: $'''https://www.google.com/''' WaitForPageToLoadTimeout: 60 NewBrowserInstance=> NewBrowser
    Scripting.RunPowershellScript Script: $'''#PowerShell script to close browser tabs with UI Automation
    
    #Strings contained in the tab title
    $tabTitle = \"%TabTitle%\"
    #Browser window handle
    $browserHandle = %Browser.Handle%
    
    #UI Automation
    Add-Type -AssemblyName \"UIAutomationClient\"
    Add-Type -AssemblyName \"UIAutomationTypes\"
    $uiAuto = [System.Windows.Automation.AutomationElement]
    $pcdn = [System.Windows.Automation.PropertyCondition]
    $tree = [System.Windows.Automation.TreeScope]
    
    $elmEdgeWindow = $uiAuto::FromHandle($browserHandle)
    if($elmEdgeWindow -ne $null){
     $cndTabBar = New-Object $pcdn($uiAuto::ClassNameProperty, \"TabStripRegionView\")
     $elmTabBar = $elmEdgeWindow.FindFirst($tree::Subtree, $cndTabBar)
     if($elmTabBar -ne $null){
     $cndTabStrip = New-Object $pcdn($uiAuto::ClassNameProperty, \"TabStrip\")
     $elmTabStrip = $elmTabBar.FindFirst($tree::Children, $cndTabStrip)
     if($elmTabStrip -ne $null){
     $cndTabItems = New-Object $pcdn($uiAuto::ControlTypeProperty, [System.Windows.Automation.ControlType]::TabItem)
     foreach($elmTabItem in $elmTabStrip.FindAll($tree::Subtree, $cndTabItems)){
     if($elmTabItem.Current.Name.Contains($tabTitle)){
     $cndTabCloseButton = New-Object $pcdn($uiAuto::ClassNameProperty, \"TabCloseButton\")
     $elmTabCloseButton = $elmTabItem.FindFirst($tree::Children, $cndTabCloseButton)
     if($elmTabCloseButton -ne $null){
     $ivkTabCloseButton = $elmTabCloseButton.GetCurrentPattern([System.Windows.Automation.InvokePattern]::Pattern)
     $ivkTabCloseButton.Invoke()
     }
     }
     }
     }
     }
    }''' ScriptOutput=> PowershellOutput

     

  • YeuHarng Profile Picture
    48 on at

    alright thx bro!

     

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