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Where is Windows App Autofill ? Keepass has it but cant find in 1Password.
Hello.
Tech Savy 1 Password user here, running a family account. The setup in question is with the 1Password desktop App on Win10.
I have a desktop application that spawns a login screen, which I want to use 1Password to fill.
The login screen does not allow copy and paste of credentials, only manual type - so using 1Password's "click and drag" functions or simple Copy/Paste via Quick Access don't work. It's not in a web browser so browser autofill is also off the table.
I can't find any way to get 1Password to auto-fill to this application.
And yet - downloading a portable version of open-source KeePass has me up and running in on this in about 10 mins. Keepass, free and open source, allows me to target the window and autofill from its own DB.
Keepass works perfectly here, despite being open source and free. Why can't 1Password, which we pay a premium for, do this as well ? The code is literally freely available (depending on whatever KeePass's license is of course). Am I missing the functionality in 1Password somewhere ? Or is there some reason this wasn't implemented ?
It's a pain to have to keep KeePass around for basic functionality (Desktop App Autofill) that 1Password doesnt have. I'd like to use exclusively 1Password. Please advise. Thank you.
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Hello,
To avoid losing characters, position the mouse cursor to the left of the data you want to copy by "click and drag"Hi Former Member
Yes, that’s exactly the click and drag operation I referenced in the OP. It doesn’t work properly in some applications, including the one I’m testing, due to it not always re-focusing on the app login properly. The result is that when you click and drag - the first 1-4 chars of the field are cut off - it happens consistently for me.
So yes - I could be opening a bug report for that - but that’s not really a good solution anyway to me. It’s still a lot of manual work - you have to have 1P open in another window and click and drag each field. It’s fragile and not auto fill.
With Keepass, you can have the app minimized and with a single keyboard shortcut - get it to auto type directly into multiple fields and then submit the form. You are able to configure the fields and windows for this auto-type behavior on an entry by entry basis. See the docs for Keepass version 2.x here if interested https://keepass.info/help/base/autotype.html . Version 2.x’s “Global Autotype HotKey” is the specific feature I’m using.
1Password should have the capabilities to do this - especially since the Keepass code is open source and viewable as an example. It’s a true “Autofill” and I’m sure 1P is aware of this functionality - I’m wondering why 1P doesn’t include it on Windows. It’s the only autofill we need really.
Keepass - for how powerful and secure it is - is not “pretty” and doesn’t have any cloud functionality since it’s a purely local application. So I end up using 1P for storage and then Keepass for auto type of specific entries - which is a pain because then I’m managing two copies of an entry (the original in 1P and a copy in Keepass). I want to just use 1P instead for the whole flow.
@K2342 you mentioned "click and drag" - actually, if you open some item in the 1Password desktop app, and drag some field from 1Password to the userid or password input field of the app you want to login, the data is autofilled. From Windows' point of view, the data is simulated keyboard input with this, not copy+paste, so it should work even if your app doesn't support pasting. Did you actually try this drag+drop operation?
Hi Ekalb. Yes, I mentioned that in my original post. It's not the functionality I'm looking for - on Windows it doesnt do any form of autofill (see that same page link you referenced for details).
With Keepass, I can autofill any target window in any application. It's open source and free - so I dont understand why 1Password for Windows cannot do this as well.
Hello,
Have you tried with the quick access?
The explanations are here: https://support.1password.com/quick-access/
