Output actions and methods

Automation requires certain screen scraping methods and scrape options to be configured to extract values from GUI elements, PDFs, or documents. There are three types of output methods, which we will discuss here.

FullText

FullText is the default output method and is the most frequently used. You need to follow the next steps to work with the FullText method:

1. Click on Screen Scraping from the Design panel, as shown in Figure 10.54, which gives you a cursor to select the Target element:

Figure 10.54 – Screen Scraping

2. Click on the element to be extracted, which will open Screen Scraper Wizard, and then complete the following:
   1. Select FullText (1) for Scraping Method.
   2. Check Ignore Hidden (2) under Scrape Options to ignore any hidden texts.
   3. Click on the Refresh (3) button if there's any change in Scrape Options.
   4. Verify the output in Scrape Result Preview (4).

Figure 10.55 –...