Web Recorder Clicktag questions

[JRL]

Just started attempting to use Web Recorder 3. Never used Web Recorder before.

I'm trying to get information from a customer web site. The recorded script worked perfectly but of course because the web site buttons change daily the script was only good for the day it was recorded. I've successfully made changes to the script that will give me the flexibility required for day to day data export.

The script needs to click a series of tags whose quantity and "TEXT" values will change daily. The recorded script used the line:

IE_ClickTag>%IE[0]%,{""},{""},{"A"},{"TEXT"},{"41"},ie_res

Because the tag "TEXT" will change every day, the line was modified to:

IE_ClickTag>%IE[0]%,{""},{""},{"A"},{"TEXT"},{"%CTagID%"},ie_res


This works most of the time. The problem I'm having is that when two of the tag "TEXT"s are the same, I get the first occurrence twice. Rather than using "TEXT" as the "Tagname" I have tried using "NAME", "TITLE", "ID" and "INDEX". I have not been able to make any of them work.

What I think should work is "ID". The error message I get when using ID is
Line 67 g not appropriate
"g" is the first letter of the id attribute that is being passed to the ClickTag function, The entire attribute is: "grdvwShipmentLineItems_ctl02_btnLink"

Any thoughts? need more info? I can't post the script, too much proprietary information that belongs to the customer.

[Marcus Tettmar]

Don't know why you'd get that message. If you want to refer to the tag's ID you would need to do:

IE_ClickTag>%IE[0]%,{""},{""},{"A"},{"ID"},{"grdvwShipmentLineItems_ctl02_btnLink"},ie_res

If in a variable do something like:

Let>var=grdvwShipmentLineItems_ctl02_btnLink
IE_ClickTag>%IE[0]%,{""},{""},{"A"},{"ID"},%var%,ie_res

[JRL]

If in a variable do something like:

Let>var=grdvwShipmentLineItems_ctl02_btnLink
IE_ClickTag>%IE[0]%,{""},{""},{"A"},{"ID"},%var%,ie_res

My code. (%kk% is incrementing in a Repeat loop)

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  Length>kk,len
  If>len=1
    Let>ButtonNbr=0%kk%
  Else
    Let>ButtonNbr=%kk%
  EndIf
  Let>CTagID=grdvwShipmentLineItems_ctl%ButtonNbr%_btnLink

  IE_ClickTag>%IE[0]%,{""},{""},{"A"},{"ID"},{"%CTagID%"},ie_res1

Changed the last line to:

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IE_ClickTag>%IE[0]%,{""},{""},{"A"},{"ID"},%CTagID%,ie_res1

And it now works.

Thank you!