extrat data without spawning a new web page

[philkryder]

Colleagues -

I have a web based application, where our user has navigated to a particular spot where we want to capture some data that is on the page.

Whenever I try to use the web control captures, a NEW instance of the page is created.

This is confusing to the user.

How can I extract data from a page or invoke a control without spawning a new web page instance?

Thanks!
Phil

[forumsupport]

Hello Phil,

You need to first open the browser using 'Open Browser' command and then insert 'Manage Web Control' command to capture the required control on that webpage.

Alternatively, record the actions from Tools->Web Recorder and then you can edit the recorded task in task editor.

Hope that helps.

[philkryder]

sigh -

Your solutions imply that the entire session must be initiated by AA.
I hope that I am mis-interpreting.

we don't want to start the session with AA.

The worker may have been working for hours.

We simply want to fire up a macro in the middle of a session and extract some data.

Can you help?

Thanks!
Phil

[forumsupport]

Hello Phil,

This enhancement has already been forwarded to product development team for future version of product. However, you can always use keystrokes like Ctrl+a and Ctrl+c to capture the entire data into $Clipboard$ variable from an already open webpage and then use 'String Manipulation' command to get the desired data from $Clipboard$.

Hope that helps.