Windows and Applications Actions

These actions manage the application windows on the AI Employee’s computer. Because keyboard and mouse actions always land on the window in front, most jobs start by focusing the right window before typing or clicking - see Mouse, Keyboard, and Text.

Window - Focus

Finds a window and brings it to the front so the following actions interact with it. You can match on part of the window title, the program’s executable name (for example chrome.exe), or both; the AI Employee keeps looking for the window, by default for up to about 10 minutes, before failing. Key settings: Window Name Contains (Optional) and Window Executable Name (Optional) (both support {{Field}} tokens; at least one must be provided), Adjust Window Size (resize the window with x,y,w,h values - the suggested size is 50,0,1390,750), Maximize Window, and Adjust Window Region. The found window’s title is saved so later actions can reference it.

Window - Wait For

Pauses the job until a matching window exists, without bringing it to the front - useful when another step launches a program and you need to wait for it to open. It matches windows the same way as Window - Focus and by default waits up to about 10 minutes; the action fails if the window never appears. Key settings: Window Name Contains (Optional) and Window Executable Name (Optional).

Window - Maximize

Maximizes the window the AI Employee is currently controlling; the action fails if no window has been focused yet. This is a legacy action - for new jobs, turn on the Maximize Window setting on Window - Focus instead, which finds and maximizes the window in one step.

Window - Close

Finds a matching window and asks the application to close it, the same as clicking the window’s close button. The action fails if no matching window is found, if the application refuses to close (for example an unsaved-changes dialog is blocking it), or if the target is the AI Employee’s own window, which cannot be closed this way. Key settings: Window Name Contains (Optional) and Window Executable Name (Optional) - provide at least one.

Window - Exists

Checks whether a matching window is currently open, without focusing it. By default it checks once and immediately succeeds or fails, which makes it ideal for branching: route the success result one way and the failure result another (for example, skip the login steps when the application is already open). Key settings: Window Name Contains (Optional) and Window Executable Name (Optional); increase the action’s attempts setting to briefly poll for the window instead of checking once.