User's Guide
Webmetrics RIA Script Recorder

Welcome. This guide will show users how the Webmetrics Script Recorder works and how to make use of the recorder's features and functions

Getting Started

  1. Overview
  2. Essential Tips and Tricks
  3. Installing the Script Recorder
  4. Starting the Script Recorder
  5. Commenting your script
  6. Recording a script
  7. Playing a script
  8. Playing a script saved to Webmetrics

How to...

  1. Basics
  2. Navigate to a page
  3. Click on a link
  4. Click on a checkbox
  5. Use select lists
  6. Select radio inputs
  7. Click submit buttons
  8. Click images
  9. Identify elements using the form tag
  10. Script elements not listed
  11. Close Dialog Boxes
  12. Generate Random Variables

Validation

  1. Adding a searchstring
  2. Adding an errorstring
  3. Verifying that a certain image has loaded

Advanced Topics

  1. Navigating pages that automatically refresh
  2. Navigating AJAX heavy websites
  3. Bypassing SSL certificate errors
  4. Handling elements not recorded by the Script Recorder
  5. Script sometimes record correctly or playback is incorrect

Troubleshooting

  1. Essential Tips and Tricks
  2. During playback, script is encounters an UnknownObjectException
  3. Script Recorder update caused an error
  4. Script doesn't play when clicking play button
  5. Script Recorder does not record user actions
  6. Popup window does not appear
  7. WIN32OLERuntimeError when trying to access a frame
  8. An AutoComplete dialog causes my script to pause

Exceptions

  1. UnknownObjectException
  2. ObjectDisabledException
  3. UnknownFrameException
  4. UnknownFormException
  5. ObjectReadOnlyException
  6. UnknownCellException
  7. NoMatchingWindowException

Additional Information

  1. Technologies supported
  2. Technologies not supported