Logging out and closing the browser
The process is now automated! Well done, you!
Let's still do some housekeeping and clean up after ourselves. Maria told us that after completing her task, she logs out and closes her browser. This might not come as a huge surprise for you anymore, but our robot can do this thing, too!
Let's add the next (last!) step, Log out and close the browser, to our task:
*** Tasks ***
Insert the sales data for the week and export it as a PDF
Open the intranet website
Log in
Download the Excel file
Fill the form using the data from the Excel file
Collect the results
Export the table as a PDF
Log out and close the browser
Then (you guessed it, right? 🙂) we add a new keyword:
*** Keywords ***
Log out and close the browser
So, two things. Log out. Close the browser. You already know about the Click Button keyword, so let's go with that for the logout:
*** Keywords ***
Log out and close the browser
Click Button Log out
How do we close the browser? There's a keyword for that, too (thanks again, RPA.Browser.Selenium!)!:
*** Keywords ***
Log out and close the browser
Click Button Log out
Close Browser
Done!?
Almost. One more detail before the class is dismissed. We want to ensure that the logout and closing of the browser happens even if some part of our process fails and the robot fails to reach the end of the task. To do it, we use a special keyword: [Teardown] (the brackets are essential!).
Let's modify our *** Tasks *** section like this:
*** Tasks ***
Insert the sales data for the week and export it as a PDF
Open the intranet website
Log in
Download the Excel file
Fill the form using the data from the Excel file
Collect the results
Export the table as a PDF
[Teardown] Log out and close the browser
What if we decided to leave out the [Teardown]? In that case, the logout and closing of the browser would not happen if one of our keywords happened to fail during execution. Using the [Teardown] keyword and giving our keyword as the argument, we ensure that no matter what, at least the cleanup step always happens. Neat!
Our finished robot now looks like this:
*** Settings ***
Documentation Insert the sales data for the week and export it as a PDF.
Library RPA.Browser.Selenium auto_close=${FALSE}
Library RPA.Excel.Files
Library RPA.HTTP
Library RPA.PDF
*** Tasks ***
Insert the sales data for the week and export it as a PDF
Open the intranet website
Log in
Download the Excel file
Fill the form using the data from the Excel file
Collect the results
Export the table as a PDF
[Teardown] Log out and close the browser
*** Keywords ***
Open the intranet website
Open Available Browser https://robotsparebinindustries.com/
Log in
Input Text username maria
Input Password password thoushallnotpass
Submit Form
Wait Until Page Contains Element id:sales-form
Download the Excel file
Download https://robotsparebinindustries.com/SalesData.xlsx overwrite=True
Fill and submit the form for one person
[Arguments] ${sales_rep}
Input Text firstname ${sales_rep}[First Name]
Input Text lastname ${sales_rep}[Last Name]
Input Text salesresult ${sales_rep}[Sales]
Select From List By Value salestarget ${sales_rep}[Sales Target]
Click Button Submit
Fill the form using the data from the Excel file
Open Workbook SalesData.xlsx
${sales_reps}= Read Worksheet As Table header=True
Close Workbook
FOR ${sales_rep} IN @{sales_reps}
Fill and submit the form for one person ${sales_rep}
END
Collect the results
Screenshot css:div.sales-summary ${OUTPUT_DIR}${/}sales_summary.png
Export the table as a PDF
Wait Until Element Is Visible id:sales-results
${sales_results_html}= Get Element Attribute id:sales-results outerHTML
Html To Pdf ${sales_results_html} ${OUTPUT_DIR}${/}sales_results.pdf
Log out and close the browser
Click Button Log out
Close Browser
If we run it, we will see that it logs out and closes the browser at the end. Such a polite robot!
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[Teardown] keyword ensures your process does not leave a mess behind. Such as an open browser.