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Highlight/Focus window

Highlight/Focus window

Brings the window of a process running on Windows 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 Windows 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).