Browser Actions › Actions › Get Menu Item (β)
Tries to find a specific main menu element without triggering it, then returns it.
Parameters
Browser
The browser to work with.
Selecting "frontmost browser" will only work if the application currently in the foreground is a supported browser.
Type: Browser
Targeting options
You can look up a menu item or sub menu by either …
- its "title", e.g.
Contacts… - its "path", e.g.
Edit > AutoFill > Contacts… - its "segmented path", e.g.
Edit,AutoFill,Contacts…
A menu path is a single string containing the path segments separated by ">".
Leading and trailing whitespace in segments is trimmed. The lookup deals gracefully with segments ending in either an ellipses or triple dots, if either variant exists in the menu structure, it'll be found.
Options:
- title
- path
- segmented path
Menu item title
The menu item label as it occurs in the actual menu. Depending on the selected filter criteria, a partial title might be enough.
Type: Text
Title filter criteria
Only available when searching by title.
Options:
- is
- contains
- begins with
- ends with
- matches regular expression
Menu item path
The menu item's hierarchical path, starting at the main menu, separated by ">" characters, e.g. View > Translation > Translate to German.
During the lookup, the path will be split up by ">", and any leading or trailing whitespace in the single segments will be trimmed.
Type: Text
Case-insensitive lookup
Enable if lowercase and uppercase shouldn't make a difference. Only available when searching by title or path.
Type: Boolean (YES/NO)
Main menu title
The first segment of a menu item's path, e.g. View or Edit etc.
Type: Text
Sub-menu or item #1
The next segment of the menu item's path.
Type: Text
Sub-menu or item #2
The next segment of the menu item's path.
Type: Text
Sub-menu or item #3
The next segment of the menu item's path.
Type: Text
Sub-menu or item #4
The next segment of the menu item's path.
Type: Text
If menu item can't be found
If the specified menu item couldn't be found, the action can either cancel the workflow and raise an error, or it could silently and gracefully just return nothing. This might be preferable if you don't want the workflow to stop while being able to check for its return value in an "If" block down the line.
On success, it returns a menu item reference which can be used as input in other menu actions of Browser Actions.
Options:
- stop and raise error
- return no value
Return Value
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