Perform Autofill on Webpage

[YiMeng]

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 URL of the web form
  • WEBFORM http://example.com/form

• 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