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AskUI Controller Not Responding to Instructions​

A possible solution is to start the AskUI Controller as administrator:

  • Right-Click the application and click Run as administrator

Background: When you start the AskUI Controller and during the execution another process is started AND it is an admin process, the controller stops executing instructions.

Execution Policy in PowerShell Blocks Commands​

When you try to execute commands inside PowerShell it may not be possible due to a restrictive Execution Policy.

You can set the Execution Policy inside the PowerShell with the following command if you have the necessary permissions:

Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted

AskUI Controller​

On Windows, the AskUI Controller may not terminate after each execution. This may lead to problems when using the AskUI Controller in a pipeline like a pipeline's run not coming to an end.

In this case you can force termination of the AskUI Controller. The UiController.stop() takes an optional boolean argument which is set to false by default. If we pass true to the UiController.stop() method, e.g., uiController.stop(true), we kill the AskUI Controller process.

await uiController.stop(true);

If you are using the Jest framework to execute your instructions, you can also force Jest to exit as described on our Jest-Troubleshooting page. This option terminates all processes which were set up and didn't close properly. The first option explicitly stops the AskUI Controller.