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Good Morning Everyone Thanks folks, I agree about the 100% thing, the first bit is easy, it is more complicated to get it to be consistently reliable. My demo of macro express expired and I downloaded macro express pro. The code that was inconsistent started working much better in the pro version. I have have successfully gotten text from the pop up boxes in webUI version 4.3.2 by hovering the mouse over the text then right clicking and copying to the clipboard. (no need for smoooove any more) I then put the text in a variable and check it in the calling macro. Cheers!

Good Afternoon I have read the posts about automating data entry on the Datatel screens. (they changed their name to ellucian) and I see that this may not be easy. I am attempting to setup some unattended data entry on Verion 4.3.2 of the webUI. I have successfully gotten snippets of code to intermittently work to: * copy the person ID from the context box to a variable (using smoooove) * copy the contents of the quick access box to a variable (using smoooove) * Update data and save the records. My problem is that it is inconsistent. Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. If data entry is going to be unattended I would like to be able to tell what screen is active and what person record is in the context box. Then there are errors, and locked records to deal with. I have delays in place that are too long, and results are still inconsistent. I always start with a resize and position of the window and set the cursor position so I know where things start. QUESTIONS: Has anyone else done this? Is the inconsistency I am seeing a feature of macro express? Do the HOME, CONTROL-A, SHIFT HOME keystrokes not work in macro express or is this an ellucian silverlight thing? Your advice would be most appreciated.

I find that exporting to PDF gives a nice output. You will see the bold and strike through just as you would in the script editor. To do this: I opened the macro I wanted to print in the script editor, then picked file, printer setup, and picked adobe pdf from the drop down and clicked OK. Then I clicked the printer icon in ME and OK. I think the printer software turned it into a .PDF and it opens in adobe reader automatically. From adobe reader you can save the file where ever you want.

Good Afternoon all I have run the calculator tutorial and it worked fine. I am new (since yesterday) to this macro express program. I have a script that will do data entry based on wait times and reading from a file. However it would be more robust if it waited for specific things to happen and then proceeded. I can not get a screen control to work in the web based data entry program that I am trying to automate. My first question is - where can I find a dictionary defining the terms like control and focus etc? Macro Express seems to like to look for a window title. In my application there will be a pop up with no title and text like "enter employee ID" and a box beside that where the data goes. What I would like the script to see is the "enter employee ID" text and then know that the cursor is in the data entry box for employee ID. Can it do that? your advice would be most appreciated,