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masterwaldo
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Hi,

 

I just downloaded the trial version of WA yesterday after looking for some bot creator software. Quite happy with it because it offers a trial + the price is within my budget. I won't buy anything before I got the chance to try although they offered 30 days money back guarante...you know what I mean...;)

 

After playing with the software a while, here I got few questions:

 

1. How can I automate the login process without running the browser? I know already how to automate the login process by firing up the browser.

 

2. I have this situation at the moment:

ID1 | Description Line 1 | Button 1

ID2 | Description Line 2 | Button 2

ID3 | Description Line 3 | Button 3

ID4 | Description Line 4 | Button 4

 

Some description:

Each line above is auto generate after a while. How I can make the software to click the latest button available? What I found now is to manually capture the macro after new button appear. This is not really what I want.

 

Hope to get your answers soon.  I still got many questions though. If WA can cater my needs, I'll just buy this software instead of the other bot creator.

 

 

Thanks.

Waldo

 

Edit: 1 more thing. I don't  have excel. Is there any way to link the software with OpenOffice?

masterwaldo
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Re: Clicking automation

Hi,

 

Just found the answer for both of my questions after a lot of tried and error.

 

1) I didn't notice the form use Post method. After I noticed it, I change the parameter in the Job and walla.

 

2) Instead of asking the mouse to be clever, I just download the whole page using "Download From Web" (<-- This function is really great. I just realised it today), parsed the text according to the ID, do some looping until it gets to the latest ID, put it in a variable, send it as a link to the browser and I arrived to the desired page.

 

I'm still playing around with the software. It really easy to learn.

 

Waldo

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Re: Clicking automation

Some notes that you may find useful:

1) Regarding your "secret" question: "1 more thing. I don't  have excel. Is there any way to link the software with OpenOffice?", I'm afraid that you cannot use the actions under Excel category without having Microsoft Excel in the machine. The reason for that is that WinAutomation uses the Component Object Model to open, read from, edit and save excel files.

If Microsoft Excel is not installed in your machine, you can use csv files to achieve the same results in a slightly different way. Csv files are essentially plain text files that have specific delimiters to define the columns and rows. In order to read from a csv, you will have to use the "Read Text from File" action to read the contents as a list, and then use the "Split Text" action for each row to get the various values in a separate list.

If that sounds too complicated, please post a job that contains the Excel actions and I will try to convert it into a job that uses only csv files.

2) Regarding the "Download from Web" action, you can check this thread that is directly related to the parsing that needs to be done to the result page that you get. Basically, the "Download from Web" action acts like a gui-less browser and allows you to send information to web forms using the GET and POST methods, or retrieve information from websites and save them in variables inside WinAutomation.

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masterwaldo
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Re: Clicking automation

Finally after a long wait I got a reply .

 

I just finished my first bot today. Auto login, auto clicking and in random behaviour. Took me probably 8hrs to understand everything...I'm not a programmer.

 

The excel stuff will probably be used on the second part of the bot. I don't have questions at the moment. Probably will have questions when I'm working on it.

 

Btw, Move Mouse to Image function is really powerful. Much more better than simply capturing the mouse movement.

 

Waldo

 

 

 

 

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Re: Clicking automation

Yes, the built-in image recognition system can help you do miracles. It is basically used in 2 actions: "Wait for Image" and "Move Mouse to Image". The most common use of "Wait for Image" action is to make sure that a webpage that you have launched in your favorite browser (i.e. Mozilla Firefox) is actually fully loaded. Some more information about that can be found here.

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