Web Recorder - How to use                   Examples

You can use this command to automate many web tasks.

1. Open Browser
   Specify the URL where you want Internet Explorer to go before you perform other activities. Generally, this is the first command in the task followed by other Manage Controls commands.
   
   
2. Close Browser
   This command matches the Open Browser command. It closes the browser opened by the Open Browser command.
   
   
3. Manage Controls
   This is the most powerful of all web recorder commands. Actually this is many commands in one. Using this command, you can select various controls on the Internet Explorer page for e.g. links, check box, radio button, drop down etc. Simply specify the URL and then capture the control by selecting it.
   
   
4. Download File
   Using this command, you can download any http file. This command doesn't require a browser. It works on its own. Use this command to download stock data, log files or patches that you need to download routinely.
   
   
5. Extract Table
   Using this command, you can select any table on the IE browser and imports its data to a csv file. CSV file is comma separated file that will open in Excel as rows and columns. This command can be used to extract data from any website. It is also very effective when you need to transfer data from ERP web front end to some other application like Excel.
   
   
6. Find Broken Links
   Using this command option, you can test whether all the links in a particular website or a web page  are working or not. Results are stored in CSV (comma separated file) that will open in Excel as rows and columns. Once the task is complete open the CSV file to identify broken links.
   
   
7. Extract Data
   This a very handy command. You can extract the text data from the website or webpage using this command. Its versatile nature allows you to also specify the range of your text that you want to copy by specifying the Before and after Keywords. e.g. in '=Price: $249 xyz', if you want to copy only $249, then specify '=Price:'in the 'Before Keyword space and 'xyz' in the 'After Keyword' space.