user text input

218014437 · Post by **218014437** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:19 pm

Hello,
I am very interested in purchasing this product but need to know if it will be able to do what I think it can do. I just need a little help along the way. I am trying to set up a more simplified process using our existing software. I figure if I am able to set it up as a task using your software it will meet all of our requirements and no data will get left behind. After messing around with the program for a while, I was trying to create a prompt that would allow the user to enter the data specified, press ok, then that entry would be put into the software where the cursor was active. I would be doing this multiple times so it would be very important for me to be able to do this. Is this possible? How?

Post by **Oleg** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:19 am

There is the Send keystrokes action for this purpose. If you set the target to "Current Window" the action sends the keystrokes into active window into active input field.

I would be doing this multiple times so it would be very important for me to be able to do this.

What do you mean? Describe in more detail please.
There are loops for this purpose, but the algorithm depends on your particular purposes.
You can repeat necessary block of operations required amount of times.

218014437 · Post by **218014437** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:12 am

Yes I am aware of the send keystrokes action, but the prompted data would always vary. Ok basically I would like to prompt the user for an input, for example, prompt the user "Enter Order Number" and they enter the order number in that pop up box, click "ok", then that entry gets sent to the program used for storing this data where the cursor is active. Then I would send a few keystrokes to get to the next entry field then the next prompt would ask to "Enter Calibration Date" or something to that effect, and so on and so forth. Instead of having the user enter the data directly into the program we use, I would like to use Robotask to set up step by step instructions to simplify the process so that it is faster, more consistent, and accurate between all users. All of the data prompted from the user would vary every time the task is run as it is for different calibrations. I hope this makes more sense and thank you for your quick response.

218014437 · Post by **218014437** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:12 am

Ok sorry for being dumb I figured out the previous problem just had to focus. Now for my next road block:
I am at a point now where I am opening an excel file with calibration data I need to extract from the file and put into another program. The only problem is that every time I would be pulling up this excel file, the amount of rows with data will always vary. Is there a way to detect the amount of rows that contain data and then extract them?