Use the newly opened browser tab

[Sylvain]

Hi,

I have been able to open a new tab by clicking on a link:

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ChromeElementAction>strSessionId,links_1,click

Now, it looks like the macro keeps working on the original tab, is that right?
Is it possible select the new tab to perform actions in this one?

Thank you

[Grovkillen]

A word of wisdom:

NEVER USE TABS FOR AUTOMATION!

The way that the browser is using tabs is a hack which is triggering to redraw the window when a user select a new tab. As far as Window is concerned there are no tabs. If you look in the "View System Windows" and use the crossbar to select a Chrome window you see that it will only show the active tab's caption etc. So for the sake of your script execute the Chrome command to open up a separate window instead of trying to go back and forth using tabs.

[Sylvain]

Thanks for the information.

So instead of that:

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ChromeElementAction>strSessionId,links_1,click

This enabled me to navigate to the page within the same tab:

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ChromeGetElementData>strSessionId,links_1,attribute/href,the_url
ChromeNavigate>strSessionId,url,the_url

from then I was able to perform the actions needed on that page.