Launching applications

The Navigate stage is used to open an application or to close it. As the name suggests, it is also used to move from one page to another, as we shall see in later examples. Let's use the Navigate stage to launch the Amazon site in Internet Explorer:

  1. Open the Launch action to edit it.
  2. From the toolbox, drag a Navigate stage and drop it beneath the Start stage.
  3. Double-click the Navigate stage to open up its properties. Rename the stage Launch Amazon. The Navigate Properties dialog (shown in the following screenshot) contains the following key sections:
    1. On the left, we see the Application Explorer. Every element that we have spied on the page (for now, there's only Element 1) is listed here,
    2. To the right is the Actions ...

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