Automation anywhere and web forms

[Nixies]

Hi

I'm tyring to put together an automation anywhere task which goes onto a website and refreshes an advert however, i'm finding it really hard to get anything on the web to consitantly work. It seems that the loading time varies it seems to click on the wrong places, the programme only seems to work 1 in 20 times. I was wondering if anyone could give me some hints to things they have done in the past that helped them create web based programmes with a higher success rate.

The problem I commonly hit upon are:

1. The title of the web page alter when I log into different pages and automation anywhere has trouble identifying them.

2. the pages load slowely badly and the programme programme rushes on and get in a mess.

Any hint and tips would be appericated. Has anyone come up with a good method of error checking?

Ed

[forumsupport]

Hello,

For web automation, we recommend you to use the 'Web Recorder' tool as Web Recorder is ideal for web recording. Web Recorder understands all web controls. If websites change and web controls move, Automation Anywhere will find the correct controls and the task will continue to work. There is an internal plug-in for Internet Explorer which tells web recorder to wait until the page is fully loaded before executing the next action or command.

What you can do is,

1. Click on Web Recorder link or Tools->Web Recorder.

2. Enter the website URL and click on Start button. It will open a new browser for Internet Explorer. Web Recorder works tightly with Internet Explorer, there is an internal plug-in for Internet Explorer which tells web recorder to wait until the page is fully loaded before executing the web action.

3. Perform the activities that you want to automate like select an item from dropdown, etc.

4. Click on 'Stop Recording' (small window in lower right corner) to stop recording your activity.

5. Type your task name and click 'Save' to save the task.

6. Now anytime you need to perform these actions just run the task, either by double clicking the task or using the 'RUN' button and Automation Anywhere will perform the activity for you.

7. When you open the tasks created using Web Recorder in Task Editor, you will see all the Web Recorder commands related to the controls you worked with while recording for e.g. links, text boxes, drop down menus etc. A task created using Web Recorder is not restricted to only Web Recorder commands. You can enter other commands like Keystrokes, Mouse Clicks and any other command from the list of commands provided in the Task Editor.

For e.g. if you wish to get data from Excel or word then what you can do is, record your task in Internet Explorer using Web Recorder. Then edit your task and insert other actions to transfer the data from Excel to webpage.

To make the task generic, you can use wildcards. You can use a wildcard at the beginning, end or both sides of the window titles.

Hope that helps. If you could tell us more about your case, we would be able to help you more with specific task.