Perform Autofill on Webpage

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Perform Autofill on Webpage

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Description

This feature requires chrome to be installed on the running workstation.

Autofill web forms identifies a particular web field on a website using XPATH as identifier.

XPATH can be identified, copy/paste from chrome browser, using its inspector tool. Instruction below.

Keywords related to autofill web forms are grouped in the update notes.

Example
  • Specify XPath to the username field to autofill with "MYUSERNAME"
    • WEBTEXT //*[@id="id_username"] MYUSERNAME
  • Specify XPath to the password field to autofill with "MYPASSWORD"
    • WEBTEXT //*[@id="id_password"] MYPASSWORD
  • Specify XPath to submit button and trigger its click event to submit the form
    • WEBELEM //*[@id="main-copy"]/div/div/div/div/form/div[4]/input[1]
Additional Keywords
  • Keyword: WEBGETVALUE.
    • Sets a variable with value of a value attribute from a website.
  • Keyword: WEBGETTEXT.
    • Sets a variable with value from a text field from a website.

Identify XPath for a target web element
  • Open Chrome, navigate to web form URL
  • Press Ctrl+Shift+C, to open inspector and ready to target element
  • Left click the web element you want to target on the webpage
  • Right click on the highlighted text in the "Elements" tab in the inspector console
  • Choose:
    • Copy
      • Copy XPath
  • You can then paste this XPath to use in automation scripts