Capturing images while recording tasks

Automation Anywhere provides the latest technology for capturing and displaying screen shots as you create automation tasks.

To capture screen shots, click Tools > Options > Advanced Settings. Click Capture Screenshots While Recording.

You can resize images and move them inside the Workbench to a desired location. The captured image is the active window during recording, and shows you where mouse pointer is located.

Consider the following example for line number 17 in the task. When you click Mouse Click: Left Button, the corresponding image shows the Windows calculator.

Using the Visualize tab

Use the Visualize tab in the Workbench to view a complete graphical layout of the current task. The following example displays a task when you click Start > Run > OK in the Run window, and then click number '1' in the calculator.

You cannot set SnapPoints or visualize the images of 
this bot as it is protected however you can view or 
edit the variables value or view the bot dependencies only.

Setting SnapPoints to refresh the images

When you create a task manually using the Workbench, or you modify a recorded task, the images that you captured during recording might not be the most recent. Automation Anywhere provides a convenient way to refresh the images called SnapPoints.

To set SnapPoints, click the Set SnapPoint button. You can now set SnapPoints in the column to the left of the line numbers, as shown below. When you run a task after setting SnapPoints, Automation Anywhere recaptures the images for those commands on which you set SnapPoints.

The images are captured after the task runs.

Commands that Support SnapPoints

The following commands support SnapPoints:

• Insert Keystrokes command
• Mouse command
• Prompt command
• Excel command
• Web Recorder command
• Enterprise 11 Windows Actions command
• Message Box command
• Enterprise 11: Manage Window Controls command

When you 'Enable' Secure Recording