eeellama
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I think it could be done with something like jquery and bootstrap, and then inserting code at specific places so you could have fancy arrows and dialog boxes appear where you want them. The problems I'm having with this approach are that UBot doesn't seem to handle external scripts--and copying pasting those scripts into the Javascript elements does not seem to get me the desired result for reasons I'm unclear about, and I don't seem to be able insert extra html tags (divs I could hide/show for example) into the page.
My use case is to try and create step by step tutorials rather than what most folks here are doing with data scrapers. UBot Studio seems to be almost there with capabilities, far closer than any other product I've looked at.
If UBot could be extended in this way, including a plug in for scripting onchange detection of a "correct" user interaction response, I think this product would be very valuable to an expanded audience. I certainly would find it very valuable in the area of creating web based software tutorials.
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Does anyone know if it is possible for UBot Studio to display arrows or callouts on top the screen to give a user direction on what to do next? For example, let's say you wanted an arrow with "Enter your name" in it, pointing to a text input field. Could that be done?
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Excellent. Thanks so much!
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Does anyone know if it is possible for uBot to detect user interaction with a web page? Let's say that we have a script that we're waiting for the user to click in a drop-down (or some other control) and make a selection. Is it possible to "see" that and store their choice in a variable?
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Using Ex Browser you can open Chrome or Firefox instances: http://network.ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php/topic/18041-sell-exbrowser-now-on-sale/
Close, but what if I need to run the bot to run with the user's local copy of Internet Explorer?
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Does anyone know if it is possible to use uBot to script actions on a user's local browser instead of uBot's? I'm thinking of something along the lines of how some of the other web automation tools work (without naming them) as a browser plug-in to IE. I would really like to be able to "take over" the user's own browser by having them click a button after they've performed some steps on their own.
Is this possible?
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I'm working OK on 5, but looks like the uBot 4 folks are still having trouble.
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Today I'm getting "Unable to connect to license server. The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.
Anyone else?
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I've been playing around with Ubot Studio 3.3 now, and it has definitely helped me automate some tricky tasks on a very "AJAXy" website. I tried several automation tools before choosing Ubot, and all had some interesting features, but were not quite what I wanted.
What I DID like about some other tools (Winautomation and iMacros, for example) was the image recognition. I have one painful popup screen on a website where Ubot can't script the window, or figure out the elements. Weird. Image recognition might fix this.
Another thing I'd really like to see is the ability to have a prompt for the user pop up. While the UI gives you the ability to pre-fill a parameter, it's not how I want to go, particularly if I want to distribute my bot to others.
And on the subject of distributing the bot, or even making money from it, I really need to be able to de-brand the compiled bot and change the UI to where I can arrange the elements and look. That includes even hiding the browser window if wanted.
So, these might be some great enhancements for Ubot 4. In the meantime, though, I'm enjoying what Ubot CAN do. Thanks!
Arrows, Callouts, And Such
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Thanks. That does put a static arrow into the top pane. Can you think of a way for it to insert an arrow on a layer above and next to a text box already showing on a screen? If I were coding this type of thing straight, it would be in an absolutely positioned div with a higher z-index than anything else on the screen. I can't find a way to inject a whole block of HTML into the code (nor can I seem to load javascript frameworks and css to make it "pretty"). There has to be a way.