Ui.Vision RPA Enterprise Installation in Microsoft Edge: Solution for "XModules not found"

UI.Vision RPA HowTo
, ,
1

From an Enterprise user:

Thank you for your help in establishing UI Vision with the Chrome browsers. Could you please meet to discuss the UI Vision settings that are required for Edge Browsers? We are having challenges with installing the X Modules.

2

Solution: This was a group policy issue. The RPA extension uses a technology called “Chrome/Edge Native Messaging API” to communicate with the XModule binaries. Now, Microsoft’s group policies and endpoint management solutions like Intune allow to block native messaging for browser extensions.

The customer had this setting in Intune:

Blocked extensions (this was not the problem):

Blocked extensions list intune
Blocked extensions list intune1099×482 49.8 KB

But native Message had this setting:

native Message intune edge

=> This is/was the issue. Native messaging must be allowed for the XModules to be found by the RPA browser extension.

3

Update from the user:

I did not have to enable Native Messaging (at least not yet). As it turns out, the extension installs OK in Edge using either the customized extension you created for Chrome or the extension from the Edge store. I discovered why the module was showing as Not Installed in previous testing that was done as well. It is because Edge sync’s settings across multiple workstations if a user signs into Edge in our environment. If the user has installed the UI.Vision extension one workstation, when they look at extensions on another workstation (where it is not installed) it will still be listed in extensions in Edge when they check. The solution is just to install the extension and then it shows as installed.

After a fair amount of testing I was able to come up with these steps:

  1. I installed the player package
  2. The extension showed installed in Chrome and I enabled it and set the home folder.
  3. I manually added the registry key for Edge (duplicate of the Chrome registry key)
  4. Now the Extension shows up in both Edge and Chrome
  5. I enabled and set the home folder in Edge as well.
  6. It shows - XModules status: PRO Edition active - in both Edge and Chrome on the xModuels PRO tab
  7. It shows as - Installed (v1.0.12) - in both Edge and Chrome on the xModules tab

So if all goes well, we will just need to update our existing packages to add the Edge registry entries.