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Highlight/Focus window

Highlight/Focus window

Brings the window of a process running on the machine where the robot runs to the foreground (focus), identified by the process name. Useful for making sure a desktop application is visible and active before interacting with it.


Options​

Process name​

Name of the process whose window will be brought to the foreground, for example calc for the calculator or notepad for notepad. There is no need to include the .exe extension.

Returns​

This action has no returns.

Rules and Conditions​

  • The Process name field is required.
  • The process provided must be running on the machine where the robot is being executed.
  • The process name must match the name shown in the Windows Task Manager (without the .exe extension).
  • On macOS, provide the application name as the system shows it (for example, Google Chrome); the match is case-insensitive. On Linux, provide the exact process name (or the window class), and xdotool must be installed.