Navigating Menu Items, potentially without UI

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Posted on 18 Apr 2023 18:46:20 by ez1138

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Hi, is there a way to set the sequence of menu selections without having to select the UI each time? Basically, is there a way to type out the sequence of menu selections? Maybe I'm wording it wrong and for that I apologize.

Another question/part...

Maybe a better question is related to the last step in the screen-shot. I would love a way to "paste" this data in to this menu selection. For instance, the menu item can be "123@there.com". I copied there 123@there.com from a cell in Excel. Is there a way to paste that in to my menu selection's last step?

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Nived_Nambiar 17,982 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 20 Apr 2023 at 01:41:13

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Re: Navigating Menu Items, potentially without UI

Hi @ez1138

Could you please share screenshot of menu option you need to select ?
ez1138 218 on 19 Apr 2023 at 17:22:12

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Re: Navigating Menu Items, potentially without UI

Using my non-working command, here's what it comes up with as far as an error. Thanks again.
ez1138 218 on 19 Apr 2023 at 17:08:27

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Re: Navigating Menu Items, potentially without UI

Believe so.

This is what I have in there for a paste. Nothing happens. Do I need to add in the %'s?

menubar[Name="Auto-fill"] > pane > pane > menu[Name="Auto-fill"] > menuitem[Name="{LControlKey}({V})"]
Nived_Nambiar 17,982 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 19 Apr 2023 at 16:00:19

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Re: Navigating Menu Items, potentially without UI

I hope you are taking about how to pass variables or make the selector select option as per input from flow.

Here i have variable MenuOption set to value File.

Now in selector, i will set the variable like below

Hope this helps
ez1138 218 on 19 Apr 2023 at 15:07:03

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Re: Navigating Menu Items, potentially without UI

Hi, closer the solution.

How do I modify the following to add a "paste" function since my flow already copied something that I would like to paste in? The paste would replace the 123 Client (123@there.com).

menubar[Name="Auto-fill"] > pane > pane > menu[Name="Auto-fill"] > menuitem[Name="123 Client (123@there.com)"]
Nived_Nambiar 17,982 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 19 Apr 2023 at 14:47:16

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Re: Navigating Menu Items, potentially without UI

Hi @ez1138

taking example of notepad application, i need to select file menu option, but i need to make it dynamic like if i need to select edit , we should able to pass that in selector, so for that i need to check which attribute has value equal to menu option.

as you can see above, highlighted attribute has value equal to File, which i can take by checking it and then if i change attribute value to Edit, it will select edit menu option like below

Hope this helps 🙂
ez1138 218 on 19 Apr 2023 at 14:35:30

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Re: Navigating Menu Items, potentially without UI

Hi, not sure what "check selector for that" means.
Nived_Nambiar 17,982 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 19 Apr 2023 at 14:33:35

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Re: Navigating Menu Items, potentially without UI

Hi @mgd1317 @ez1138

Check selector for that
ez1138 218 on 19 Apr 2023 at 14:32:31

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Re: Navigating Menu Items, potentially without UI

Maybe rather than going through an extension can I use the context menu (aka right-click menu)? Not sure what the name of that menu is.
mgd1317 49 on 19 Apr 2023 at 14:11:04

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Re: Navigating Menu Items, potentially without UI

Hi, thanks for the clarification. How do I know what the name of the actual menu is to set the variable if it's a Chrome extension?