Can OpenRPA open multiple website in parallel

[Bill Xiao]

Hi Allan, can I open more than one website at the same time and operate on them simultaneously? Say by using Parallel activity and each branch has separate OpenURL for opening different websites in parallel. Based on my experiment, it seems impossible. Like the following workflow, when it's running, there is only one website open.

[Allan Zimmermann]

No, that is not possible.
You could use 2 different browser, say Edge and chrome or IE and chrome.

On a separate node, related to this. Get Element is not designed to be used inside the Parallel activity( it works, but it's not actually doing 2 things at the same time, since Get Element does not support going idle or is implemented using AsyncAcitvity . It's on my to do list to get done at some point )

[Bill Xiao]

@allan-zimmermann How about using Selenium webdriver instead of NativeMessage channel to drive the browser automation? In the Parallel case, if each parallel branch utilizing a separate Selenium webdriver instance, it's feasible to do multiple website automations at the same time without interference between them.