BBS navigation using Modem connection

[tburk]

Can Automation Anywhere dial a modem? Once connected I would guess that 'Keystrokes' control would be able to navigate the BBS nicely, is this accurate?

[forumsupport]

Hello,

If you want to connect to internet using a dial-up connection then you can use Internet Connection command. You can find this command under 'Internet' command category. To insert this command,

Double click on Internet Connection command.
Select your dial-up connection from the drop down list.
Specify if you would like to reconnect if the attempt to connect failed.
You can specify how many times you want to attempt and the time between successive attempts to connect.

You can also insert a Disconnect command in the task. It will disconnect you from the dial-up connection.

Alternatively, you can also use 'Keystrokes' command to dial a modem and navigate the BBS.

Hope that helps.

[tburk]

Within our dial-up session there is a window that appears that requires a login user and password to be entered. We have noticed that the 'Internet Connection' control sits idle while this window is displayed thus 'freezing' the automated script. The script is supposed to wait for this "After Dial Terminal" window and begin sending keystrokes, but the problem is that the keystrokes commands never execute.

Can you think of a solution to this? Please see attached image of the displayed window during internet connection dialogue.

[forumsupport]

Hello,

What you can try is, instead of using keystrokes in 'After Dial Terminal window' use 'Currently active window'. Also before, these keystrokes command, insert following condition,

If After Dial Terminal window exist then
Activate window After Dial Terminal
Keystrokes for Login name in currently active window
Keystrokes for Password in currently active window
Endif

Hope that helps.

[tburk]

Here is the solution I found that works for us. I created a task which simply waits for the 'After Dial Terminal' window to appear, once it exists the username/password are inserted and the 'Done' button is clicked. This script is launched using the 'Open File/Program' command in the main script/atmn file and it is located just before the 'Open Internet Connection' command.

Thank you.
Tom