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title: "Advance Click Step"
url: "https://docs.robotiq.ai/en/article/advance-click-step"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2025-12-24T15:30:49.239Z"
---

# Advance Click Step

The Advance Click Step makes your mouse click on a specific spot in an application. You can use it to click buttons, links, or other things you see on screen in your automated tasks.

## How to Use the Advance Click Step

Use this step to make a mouse click happen in an application.

### Step 1: Add the Advance Click Step

1.  Open your process in the Robotiq.ai editor.
2.  Drag the **Advance Click Step** into your workflow.

### Step 2: Set Up Step Information

1.  **Step name** (Optional): Give the step a name. This helps you find it in the editor.

### Step 3: Set Up Application Settings

1.  **Wait for window activation** (Required):
    -   Pick `T` (true) if the robot should wait for the window you want to click in to open. This is the default setting.
    -   Pick `F` (false) if the robot should not wait.
2.  **Wait timeout (in seconds)** (Required): Type in how long the robot waits for the window to open.
    -   If "Wait for window activation" is `T` and you don't set a timeout, the robot waits forever or until the process stops.
3.  **Choose Application** (Required): Pick the name of the application you set up earlier. You must have opened this application in your workflow already.
4.  **Application** (Required): This field automatically shows the application's name after you pick it.
5.  **Choose existing class name** (Optional): Give the specific name of a window element that already exists.
6.  **Class name** (Optional): Give the specific name of the application window element.
7.  **Window title** (Optional): Type in the text you see on the application window's control.

**Important:** The "Choose existing class name," "Class name," and "Window title" fields are hidden at first. Click to open them and type in your values.

### Step 4: Set Up Click Settings

1.  **Click type** (Required):
    -   `Left` (default): Clicks with the main mouse button.
    -   `Right`: Clicks with the secondary mouse button.
2.  **Double Click** (Required):
    -   Pick `T` (true) to double-click.
    -   Pick `F` (false) for a single click. This is the default.
3.  **Use coordinates (if image not found)** (Required):
    -   Pick `T` (true) to use X, Y coordinates if the image isn't found.
    -   Pick `F` (false) to not use coordinates. This is the default.
4.  **X, Y coordinates** (Optional): Type in the X and Y screen coordinates in pixels.
    -   If "Use coordinates" is `T` and you don't set coordinates, the robot clicks at (0,0).
5.  **Number of retries to find element to click on** (Optional): Type in how many times the robot should try to find and click the image.
6.  **Wait time between retries (in ms)** (Optional): Type in how long to wait in milliseconds between each try.

### Step 5: Add the Image to Click

1.  **Image** (Required): Show the robot the picture of what you want to click.
    -   **From Clipboard**: Click this button to use an image you copied.
    -   **From File**: Click this button to pick an image file from your computer.
    -   **Remove Image**: Click this button to take away the image you picked.

### Step 6: Add Anchors (Optional)

Anchors help the robot find the image better by showing it a specific area to look in.

1.  **Anchors image** (Optional):
    -   Click **Add new** to add an anchor.
    -   **Choose image type** (Required): Pick the kind of anchor.
        -   `Left anchor`
        -   `Right anchor`
        -   `Top anchor`
        -   `Bottom anchor`
    -   **Image**: Show the robot the picture for the anchor.
        -   **From Clipboard**: Use an image from your clipboard.
        -   **From File**: Pick an image file from your computer.
        -   **Remove Image**: Take away the anchor image you picked.

**Important:** You need to add a main image first before you can add anchors. You can add more than one anchor for a single image.

## What the Parameters Mean

**Step name** (Optional)

-   A name you give to the process step.
-   Example: `Click Login Button`

**Wait for window activation** (Required)

-   Tells the robot if it should wait for the application window to open.
-   `T` (true) or `F` (false). `T` is the default.

**Wait timeout (in seconds)** (Required)

-   The longest the robot will wait for the window to open.
-   Example: `30` (seconds)

**Choose Application** (Required)

-   The name of the application you want to use.
-   Example: `MyBrowserApp`

**Application** (Required)

-   The system name of the application. This fills in by itself.

**Choose existing class name** (Optional)

-   A unique name for a specific part of a window.
-   Example: `ButtonClass`

**Class name** (Optional)

-   A unique name for the application window part.
-   Example: `LoginButton`

**Window title** (Optional)

-   The text you see on the application window or control.
-   Example: `Login Window`

**Click type** (Required)

-   Says which mouse button to use.
-   `Left` (default) or `Right`.

**Double Click** (Required)

-   Makes a double-click if `T`.
-   `T` (true) or `F` (false). `F` is the default.

**Use coordinates (if image not found)** (Required)

-   If `T`, the robot clicks at the X, Y coordinates you give if it can't find the image.
-   `T` (true) or `F` (false). `F` is the default.

**X, Y coordinates** (Optional)

-   Screen coordinates (in pixels) for the click.
-   Example: `X=100, Y=250`

**Number of retries to find element to click on** (Optional)

-   How many times the robot tries to find the image.
-   Example: `5`

**Wait time between retries (in ms)** (Optional)

-   How long to wait between each try.
-   Example: `500` (milliseconds)

**Image** (Required)

-   The picture of the thing you want to click.

**Anchors image** (Optional)

-   Extra pictures that show an area around the main image to help find it better.
-   Anchor types: `Left anchor`, `Right anchor`, `Top anchor`, `Bottom anchor`.

## Other Articles

-   [Open Window Process Step](https://docs.robotiq.ai/en/article/open-window-process-step)
-   [Click and Type Step](https://docs.robotiq.ai/en/article/click-and-type-step)
-   [Find Image Step](https://docs.robotiq.ai/en/article/find-image-step)

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