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Navigating Menu Items, potentially without UI

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Posted on by ez1138 218

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

    Hi @ez1138 

     

    In case of notepad, using select menu option in window, selector was like this

     

    Nived_Nambiar_0-1681877125218.png

     

    Where Name attribute is the name of menu, where we can pass dynamic value for manu name you need to pass menu name, simmilarly you can pass menu name after tuning your selector with attribute that stores menu name 🙂

  • ez1138 Profile Picture
    ez1138 218 on at

    Hi, I will take a look.  A little confused on the "notepad" reference.  The menu is within the web page.  Apologize for not understanding.

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

    Hi @ez1138 

     

    Since i would not have access to webpage (i think so), so i just gave you an example with Notepad, so in Notepad, there is File, Edit options, so looking at selector, i found one attribute which has name of menu option.

     

    So i tuned the selector to include name as variable so that we can change it dynamically depending upon requirement.

     

    Simmilar way you have to try in your case. 🙂

     

  • mgd1317 Profile Picture
    mgd1317 49 on at

    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?

  • ez1138 Profile Picture
    ez1138 218 on at

    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.

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

    Hi @mgd1317  @ez1138 

     

    Check selector for that 

  • ez1138 Profile Picture
    ez1138 218 on at

    Hi, not sure what "check selector for that" means.

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

    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.

     

    Nived_Nambiar_0-1681915554335.png

     

    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

     

    Nived_Nambiar_1-1681915625771.png

     

    Hope this helps 🙂

     

  • ez1138 Profile Picture
    ez1138 218 on at

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

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

     

    Nived_Nambiar_0-1681919914689.png

     

     

    Here i have variable MenuOption set to value File.

     

    Now in selector, i will set the variable like below

    Nived_Nambiar_1-1681919993633.png

     

     

    Hope this helps 

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