Task Description:
Let's say you you want to present the progression of weather system over a
period of time. This task downloads the updated web images of weather maps at regular intervals.
Note: This sample task uses an example of http://www.wunderground.com just for illustrative purposes.
| Solution |
| 1. | Record a new task |
- Keep the http://www.wunderground.com/global/Region/AS/2xTemperature.html web page open.
- Click on the 'Record' button
- Refresh the web page using F5
- Right-click the image
- Hit 's' in the right-click menu to bring up the Save as dialog box
- Save the image as file
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| 2. | Timestamp the saved images |
- You need to edit the above recorded task in order to add timestamps to the saved image.
- Select the task in the main Automation Anywhere window and click on 'Edit'
- Select the Keystroke actions that were recorded to save the file and replace it with the following
c:\daily weather images\$Day$.$Month$.$Year$_$Hour$.$Minute$.$Second$
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| 3. | Schedule the task |
- Using the schedule property of Automation Anywhere, you can schedule this
task to run every few minutes so that you have the updated web images of the weather maps.
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| When you run this task,
it right-clicks the weather map image and saves it to the folder with latest timestamp. |
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