Manage Web Controls

[DavidCAllen]

Good Morning

I was hoping to use the Manage Web Controls function to click a button within a web page, which changes location within the page. However I have the action within a Loop and on the first iteration it works correctly, however on the second run it reloads the web page?

I have not used the Open Browser command as the button effectly opens a pop up window.

Any suggestions

Many thanks

David

[forumsupport]

Hello,

You need to insert 'Open Browser' command before 'Start Loop' so that the entire task activities is performed in a single instance of browser.

If the button changes its location on webpage then Web Recorder can find the correct button.

For Buttons, Manage Web Control command has three check boxes i.e. Name, Caption, Index under Advanced options. Following is an explanation of each of the check boxes.
• Name: While running the task, it will search for the button by the name that was recorded.
• Caption : Similar to the Name checkbox, but instead of searching the button by its name, it searches the button by its caption.
• Index : This option will search the button by its location index. Every button in a web page has a location index. For e.g. if you clicked on a button whose index number was 2 and you always want to click on that button when the task runs no matter what the name or caption of that button is, then you can keep only this option checked.

Hope that helps.