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Open Step

Opens an application on the Automation Device or locally. For example, a headless terminal is opened on the local device if its driver is enabled on the local device.

Properties

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 Device Automation for more information.

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

  • 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)

    • c: working directory

    • n: client hostname

    • g: desktop geometry (WxH)

    • e: disable encryption (French TS)

    • E: disable encryption from client to server

    • C: use private color map

    • a: connection color depth

    • z: enable RDP compression

    • x: RDP5 experience (m[odem 28.8], b[roadband], l[an] or hex nr.)

    • P: use persistent bitmap caching

    • 0: attach to console

    • 4: use RDP version 4

    • 5: use RDP version 5 (default)

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