RE: Web page text

[Alex Furman]

SWEA creates HtmlAnchor control for <A> tag. It is possible that the link is not <A> tag.  You can use SWEA DOM navigator to inspect the DOM tree. If "Preview Control Selection" is checked SWEA editor will not create a control automatically. Instead the DOM tree will be navigated to the selected HTML element.

> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:06:46 -0700
> Subject: Web page text
> From: kline...@gmail.com
> To: swexplorer...@googlegroups.com
>
>
> There is text on a webpage that when clicked is a link but it cant be
> added as an Anchor with SWexplorer. It just keeps coming up as
> HtmlContent every time
>

[Sean Kline]

It says its a <TD> tag

<TD
class=classNavTrackerFixedMenuItemCell style = "BACKGROUND-COLOR:#00ff00" noWrap colSpan=2>Eligibility and Benefits Inquiry</TD>

[Alex Furman]

It explains why HtmlContent control was created. For the control you can record Invoke actions (Click, MouseClick) by using SWDesigner Invoke tab.

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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:24:48 -0400
From: kline...@gmail.com
To: swexplorer...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Web page text

[Sean Kline]

I dont know why i didnt think of that ealier. Thanks for your help

[Sean Kline]

Now ive come to a page where there is a frame with text on it and it cant added to project view

[Alex Furman]

SWEA supports frames and iframes. Can you highlight the frame elements?

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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:45:06 -0400

From: kline...@gmail.com
To: swexplorer...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Web page text

[Sean Kline]

I can highlight it but it wont turn green

[Alex Furman]

Have you tried to automate any other page with frames?  Is it possible to reproduce the problem?

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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:30:25 -0400

From: kline...@gmail.com
To: swexplorer...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Web page text

[Sean Kline]

Im not sure that the problem is with the fact that it has frames i guess SWEA cant find the HTML for the text that i need.

[Alex Furman]

Have you tried to use SWEA DOM navigator to create control? Do you see the frame in the DOM navigator?

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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:43:18 -0400

From: kline...@gmail.com
To: swexplorer...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Web page text

[Sean Kline]

I  dont see it in the dom navigator i can send you the source if it will help.

[Sean Kline]

Ive replicated the problem and i think the problem is that SWexplorer cant activate the scene. I was able to grab text as an htmlcontent then when i searched another patient it wouldnt let me select text anymore. It worked about 3 times then wouldnt work after that

[Alex Furman]

Have you tried to log the identification messages from explorerManager error handler? If a scene was not activated SWEA will fire the Error event handler.   The identification messages can help to troubleshoot the problem.

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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:13:43 -0400

From: kline...@gmail.com
To: swexplorer...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Web page text

[Sean Kline]

May i ask why SWEA uses scenes in the first place?

[Sean Kline]

I seem to have another problem I forgot that this certain page has links that end in numbers that arent consistent. This one is called ms_id78 and then i clicked it again and it became ms_id94. In another program i was using i just added an asterisk after id and it would work

[Alex Furman]

You have to update the Scene descriptor. It contains UrlPattern which is a regular expression.
For example:

http://by19fd\.bay19\.hotmail\.msn\.com/cgi-bin/HoTMaiL\?curmbox=(.*) &a=(.*)&fti=yes

 

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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:30:39 -0400

From: kline...@gmail.com
To: swexplorer...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Web page text

[Alex Furman]

Scenes allow automation program to be tolerant to UI changes. UI changes very often. Without scenes every change to UI will lead to code change. With scenes in most cases only control binding should be changed.

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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:21:39 -0400

From: kline...@gmail.com
To: swexplorer...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Web page text

[Sean Kline]

Is there a way for me to only work with code and not scenes? With the websites im working with the UI doesnt change very often

[Sean Kline]

Your software is faster and cheaper then the software we were using. I do web automation all day on healthcare websites. I just want to make sure that i will be able to find a work around for whatever problems should occur. Things are looking good though, my company should be purchasing the $999 license if all goes well

[Alex Furman]

SWEA is fastest IE automation framework. SWEA provides little overhead to IE (SWEA IE engine is C++ code).

We added scenes because we needed automation to be predictable. You can’t simply click a button. You should be sure that the button is on a right page. The Web application can redirect to wrong page and a click on a button can lead to unpredictable errors. SWEA provides API (scenes and controls) to a Web application and takes care about the control binding. The scene binding is controled by SceneDescriptor. The control binding is controled by ControlDescriptor. The control can be bound by Html Id, Html Name and XPath. By default SWEA generates absolute XPATH expression. If a control  position "floats" on a page it is possible to use "relative" XPATH expressions.

For example://A[contains(text(), 'some link text')]  will bind HtmlAnchor to <A>some link text</A> tag.

 

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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:47:37 -0400

From: kline...@gmail.com
To: swexplorer...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Web page text

[Sean Kline]

What would cause a scene a very long time to activate?

[Sean Kline]

I got rid of the waitforactive(30000) and it took care of it

[Alex Furman]

Scene may not be activated if it failed to activate (ExplorerManager error event  is fired) or IE doesn't fire the "complete" events. 

 

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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:51:55 -0400

From: kline...@gmail.com
To: swexplorer...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Web page text

[Sean Kline]

It activates it just takes the entire wait time to do it

[Alex Furman]

To monitor the actual scene activation  you can subsribe to explorerManager.SceneActivated/SceneDeactivated events

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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:17:58 -0400

From: kline...@gmail.com
To: swexplorer...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Web page text

[Sean Kline]

How do i do that?

[Alex Furman]

AddHandler explorerManager.SceneActivated, AddressOf SWExplorerAutomationExamples.CodeTemplate.explorerManager_SceneActivated

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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:22:02 -0400

From: kline...@gmail.com
To: swexplorer...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Web page text

[Sean Kline]

Thank you, im still coming back to the fact that i need a way to wait until the webpage is done loading to do things. I cant use waitforactive because sometimes i dont know what scene needs to be activated until the page is done loading.

[Alex Furman]

In this case you should use manual identification. It is combination of:
explorerManager.RunIdentification() and scene.WaitForActive.

 

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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:26:13 -0400

From: kline...@gmail.com
To: swexplorer...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Web page text

[Sean Kline]

Ive been using explorermanager.runidentfication

[Alex Furman]

If explorermanager.runidentfication failed (Scene was not activated) than explorermanager error event will be called with an error message. The error message contains a detailed information about the identification problem.

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To: swexplorer...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Web page text

Ive been using explorermanager.runidentfication

[Sean Kline]

I have a feeling that nothing other than a wait while website is busy is going to work for this website. With waitforactive it doesnt wait until its done it waits until the time is up. I cant figure out any other way to only make it wait until the page is done being loaded

[Sean Kline]

Is there a way to use "on error goto" with SWEA