Task getting wrong results

[alexsur]

I need some help in understanding why my task doesn’t work properly. Apparently something happens at line 9 where the results are supposed to be sorted by the location selected on line 7 and 8. Unfortunately the results that I get with the task are not the right ones … they are different that if you do the steps manually in an IE window.
I have also a couple of general questions regarding to AA.
- As I’m using the software mostly to grab web information, is it possible to make the software to identify itself with a certain name (i.e. MySpyder.com) and if so can it follow the robot.txt instructions?
- Can multiple tasks run simultaneously if they use the same variables? Many of my tasks like the one attached, are using “Prompt Assignment” and “Clipboard” in the same manner.

Thank you,

[forumsupport]

Hello,

The task wasn't clicking on 'Search for Job' button and hence the result was incorrect. We have attached amended task, which works as expected.

Regarding your queries,

1) Can you please share more information on the same? If layout of webpage is same then Web recorder will take care of changing parameters in a URL. You just have to record the task once, if you want to run the same task with different parameters then make use of variables in place of a fixed value and run the task. Web Recorder will take care of dynamic URL.

2) Unfortunately, multiple tasks cannot run simultaneously. However, the exe created from the task can run simultaneously using its own set variables.

Hope that helps.

[alexsur]

When recording the task I did click 'Search for Job' button but it looks that for whatever reason AA misinterpret this action. Instead I see that you added 13 more commands to make this working which in my opinion intricate what was supposed to be a simple click. Anyway that doesn’t work either … the amended task stops at line 15 (see attached the error message).

Regarding your answer to my first query I’m afraid I don’t understand it. My question was how can I make AA to use the robot rules. This means that it will always get the /robots.txt file from the root of the web server to see if we are allowed to access pages as a robot. This is very important for collecting web information as this will determine whether an url should be spidered or not.

Thanks again

[alexsur]

Finally I figured out how to make it work. Thank you. It’s just that I have to ad all these additional commands instead of using a single “Search” click … but I guess one of the next AA versions will be able to handle this.
So if you could just answer to my first query regarding the robot behavior.
Thanks
Alex

[forumsupport]

Hello Allex,

What you can do is, using Web Recorder or 'Download File' command download robot.txt from the website and then using 'Read from Text file' command you can read the text file to validate the rules.

If you can send your contact number and best time to reach at, Automation Anywhere - Open A Support Case then a technical support person can call, understand the actual scenario and help you out quickly.