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Lesson 8 - Advanced Citrix Automation - Recap

This document recaps a lesson on advanced Citrix automation. It discusses using Find Image activity to wait for applications to load rather than relying on delays. It also recommends using keyboard shortcuts over clicking icons to start applications, as shortcuts are more reliable. The document provides best practices such as always using keyboard shortcuts when possible and waiting for applications to load using Find Image instead of delays.

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Lesson 8 - Advanced Citrix Automation - Recap

This document recaps a lesson on advanced Citrix automation. It discusses using Find Image activity to wait for applications to load rather than relying on delays. It also recommends using keyboard shortcuts over clicking icons to start applications, as shortcuts are more reliable. The document provides best practices such as always using keyboard shortcuts when possible and waiting for applications to load using Find Image instead of delays.

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LESSON 8 – ADVANCED CITRIX AUTOMATION -

RECAP
Overview

In this chapter we talked about the challenges that come with automating Citrix environments.
We looked at Find Image Activity, because it’s important to know when to perform certain actions,
and we also tackled the challenge of starting an application in such environments.
Takeaways

Use Find Image to wait for a page or an application to finish loading.

It’s easier to automate such environments by using keyboard


shortcuts.

If you want to start an application by double clicking its desktop icon pay attention to the
image selection, since it will be vulnerable to background color changes or even state
changes such as when the icon is selected.
A better way of starting an application is by assigning it a keyboard shortcut.

If you want to run an application with parameters you can use Win + R and put in
the full path of the application and add the parameters after it.
Best practices

Always use keyboard shortcuts when possible since it’s faster and more reliable.

When waiting for an application to load, don’t add a delay to your actions - you
should instead use Find Image or other similar techniques.

When using command prompt to run an application, you can either try to use the Win +
R combination or, if this doesn’t work even in fullscreen mode, try opening Start menu and
typing “cmd”.
Useful links

About Citrix Automation

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