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This function is one of Action Operation. You can find the movie in ARGOS RPA+ video tutorial.



Locate Image

This tool is the MAIN tool for image-based automation navigation.



Need help?

Technical contact to tech@argos-labs.com



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  • It executes mouse events (various clicks and a mouse over) in reference to a location of the specific image (Target Image).
  • Target Image does not have to be the on-screen object to click. You CAN click anywhere outside of the Target Image.
  • Always recommended to use this with [Image Match] verification tool for verifying screen changes before and after the mouse event.


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Left Text bubble

  • 1. Use this to capture just the target App window.
  • 2. This icon captures the entire screen.
  • 3. Use this icon to define “click location”
  • 4. Click this to define “target image”
  • 5. This defines the “search area” on the Window.
  • App properties are automatically captured when app specific window is captured
  • These mouse icons defines click types

Right Text Bubble

  • You can use wildcard here! (*)
  • For recursive images, you can define appearance order from the top



  • When you use [Locate Image] down click and up click to select an area on the screen, you have to do it either one of the 2 ways below.

1) at the origin --- Locate Image - Down
2) at the destination --- Locate Image - DownAndUp

OR

1) at the origin --- Locate Image - Down
2) at the destination --- Locate Image - No Click (mouse over)
3) at the destination --- Locate Image - Up




  • What does “Index” mean in Locate Image?

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This is called “Index”. You can set this with a positive integer to specify xx-th (as in 4th or 5th)  target image when you expect multiple of them to show on your target screen. A negative integer value will result in error that Failure Handler can not detect, and the default is 1.




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