Device

Select the device where you want to open an application.

URI

• Specify the path to the application or a website to open. Use forward slashes in the path. For example:

  • C:/Program Files/SAP/FrontEnd/SAPgui/saplogon.exe
  • ="C:/Program Files/SAP/FrontEnd/SAPgui/saplogon.exe"
  • https://www.google.com
  • about://version

    See Access Websites in Desktop Automation for more information.

• For the built-in Windows applications, you can specify the process name, such as calc.exe.

• To open built-in Excel, specify the following:

  excel://new to create a new spreadsheet

  excel://<full path to spreadsheet>/<spreadsheet name>.xlsx to open an existing spreadsheet

  For more information, see Built-in Excel.

• For the RDP connection, specify the following:

  rdp://<username>\<domain>:<password>@<hostname>?<param1>=<value1>&<param2>=<value2>

  Where available parameters are:

  • d: domain (or type domain as part of username in URL)

  • g: desktop geometry (WxH)

  • a: connection color depth

  • Z: specify a number of seconds to wait before dismissing an extra screen during login (see below)

  For example: rdp://admin:AdminPassword@Server1

  If the system you are connecting to is configured to show an extra screen when the user logs in, set a number of seconds to wait before dismissing the extra screen during login in the Z parameter, such as rdp://admin:AdminPassword@Server1?Z=3. If this screen is not dismissed, the action may fail.

Also use the Open step to work with cookies in the Desktop Automation built-in browser. See Cookie Management in the Desktop Automation built-in browser for more details.