I am presently evaluating AA and have a couple questions regarding looping through IE tables.
The web site from which I am attempting to extract data makes extensive use of java servlets. It has an initial page with multiple rows of data several columns across. At the end of each row of data is a button/hotspot to click amd get the details for the item in that row of data. The AA Web recorder handles this beautifully when I record the session.
What I would like to do is loop through the rows in the table on the first page to get the details which are displayed on the next page. I'm sure this is a typical task for AA, but the first issue I have is that when I write the data from the first table to an Excel file the column which would identify the link to the next page is empty. The address does show in the Web Recorder dialogue under the "Tasks Actions List" under "Control Details". My question is how do I capture this value to automatically proceed to get the details for each row?
The second question I have is regarding looping in general. On page 62 of the documentation it provides an example of how to extract data from an IE table, but I'm wondering if I need a nested loop for what I am describing. That is do I need to loop through both tables or can I loop through the first, go to the details page, and then simply extract the detail on the second page to an Excel file.
Do you have a sample atmn file which would detail looping in this fashion?
Thanks in advance.