Using the More menu options
Additional functionality is available under the More menu, next to the Control Name field. Use the More menu options to work with interrogated controls, by highlighting or deleting a control, refreshing matching, or adding context menu items.
Highlighting a control
Perform the following steps to highlight a control so you can identify it. To use the Highlight feature, the control must be currently matched.
- From the Control name drop-down list, select a currently matched control.
- Click the More menu and then click
Highlight.
Result: A box briefly flashes around the selected control.
Refreshing matching
If you change match rules or other properties, or a control is not currently matching, you can refresh the matching to make Robot Studio rematch the control.
- From the Control name drop-down list, select a control.
- Click the More menu and then click Refresh
Matching.
Result: The matching status of the control is updated (if it changes).
Deleting a control
To delete a control, select it as the current control. If the control is used in an automation, you receive a warning that automations can get broken, giving you an opportunity to cancel the deletion.
- From the Control name drop-down list, select a control.
- Click the More menu, and then click
Delete.
- If the control or any of its children are not used in any automation, you are prompted with a simple confirmation message. Answer Yes to delete the control.
- If an automation does use the control or any of its children, you
receive the following message. Clicking Yes can
break the listed automations.
Delete warning
Collapse or Expand All
- Properties
- Target Properties
- Target Properties
- Testing
- On the Interrogation Form, click the More icon.
- In the More menu, click either Expand All
or Collapse All.
Expand or Collapse All
Adding Context Menu or Menu items
Container controls often have menus or context menus associated with them. When a control has a menu, the Add Menu Items or the Add Context Menu Items option is available.
To add menu items to the list of interrogated objects, perform the following steps.- From the Control name drop-down list, select a container control.
- From the More menu, select either Add Menu
Items or Add Context Menu Items.
Add menu items - In the Add Menu Items or Add Context Menu Items window, select the options that
you want to add to the list of interrogated controls.
Add menu items
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