- AutoUser for Lotus Notes

Setting Text (1 reply)

AndyCase — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:15:23 -0400

Hi,

I have a field called "RichText.Job No."

Its a text entry field. When I select it and enter a new value, the text is NOT overwriiten, so I end up with too many characters. I have tried using the "kepress 127" delete key, but cant get rid of all whats there. I always have one character remaining!

Is the an easier way to clear or overwrite what is there?

Test Execution Options (3 replies)

AndyCase — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:17:58 -0400

There doesnt seem to be many options with regard to executing the scripts.

Options I would like to be able to do is:-
1. Set a point at which to stop in the script.
2. start running the script from a certain point within the script.

Can you provide some suggestions.

AutoUser Roadmap (1 reply)

Olaf — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:31:30 -0400

Hi,

i liked the road map posted previously....even if it lacks the figures for the release years ;)

I it possible to get an updated schedule in this thread?

Cheers,
Olaf

Tabs in tables (1 reply)

men — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:00:02 -0400

Hi,

i have a form with a table with tabs. The problem is: I can not capture the tabs in the table.

When I try to capture the tabs the focus is only arround all tabs, but not on the desired tab.

kind regards

Maik Endler

Close tab window (1 reply)

gagupta — Sat, 15 May 2010 04:00:44 -0400

Hello Guys,

I just started using Smart Toucan recently. I am writing a simple script to schedule a meeting using Calendar . In the script, I want to close the tabs that I open. I found 3 ways to do it from the UI:
- Click on the X button in the tab
- Right click the tab, select "Close Window"
- Press "Ctrl+W'

I can't get the first 2 ways working.

- Click on the X button in the tab: I used the following command. It just clicks the tab, not close it:
Click "Tab.New Calendar Entry for user"

- Right click the tab, select "Close Window": I used the following command. It doesn't work either (btw I had to use the "force" option to capture "Close Window"
RightClick "Tab.New Calendar Entry for user"
Click "Menu.#32768"

- Press "Ctrl+W': The following command works, but I can't use it (because I generate a popup outside Lotus Notes)
KeyPress Key.CTRL + asc('W')

I assume there would be a standard way to close a tab. Can someone point me to the right direction.

Thanks,
Gaurav

Visible() fails when LN-Client is started via WScript.Shell.run (2 replies)

TheodorHartmann — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:07:06 -0400

Hello,

I have problems with the following script: (ItemContainer.xml is attached)

01: ItemContainer = "LN_Connection_item_container.xml"
02: FastMode=false
03: TimeOut=5
04: 
05: Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
06: shell.run "notes", 1, false
07:
08: Sleep 2 ' or 20, or 200 -> same result
09: 
10: If Not Visible("Login.Text.Password") Then
11:	WriteLog "Unable to find password field" 
12: Else
13:	WriteLog "Detected password field"
14: End If
15:
16: WriteTo "Login.Text.Password", "wrongPassword"
17: KeyPress Key.Enter
18: 
19: Click "RichButton.New Message"
20: 
21: WriteLog "Reached end of script"

Result:
Login-Window is opened
"Unable to find password field" is written to the log
"wrongPassword" is written to the password field
Line #19 fails silently (as it is the wrong password, this button is not visible)
"Reached end of script" is written to the log

Also, the AU-Statusbar show's "No connection to Notes" during the execution, a few seconds after the end of script, the bulb goes green.

I know, user switching can be performed with the "Switch id" command, as shown in one of the examples, but for some cases, it would be useful, to perform a restart of the LN client.

Best regards,
Theodor Hartmann

IBM Lotus Notes 8.5

Release 8.5.1
Revision 20090929.1223 (Release 8.5.1)
Standard Configuration

AutoUser

Vers. 1.1.920

PS: If I remove line #5 and #6, and launch the LN client manually before starting the script, it works as expected

64Bit OS (1 reply)

eknori — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:13:55 -0400

Will AU work on 64bit OS? I'm going to get a new laptop later this month with Win7 64bit.

Function notesversion (5 replies)

men — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:25:59 -0400

Hello,

Function notesversion displays:

writelog "#### Current Version is: "¬esversion&" ####"

#### Current Version is: 5.0.0.0.b.de ####

but installed is:

Release 7.0.2 HF930 November 05, 2007 ...

kind regards
Maik Endler

More suggestions for the next version (1 reply)

sviveen — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:28:04 -0500

Is there already an option to fill out a date, calculated from today? In case a form has a validation and does not accept dates in the past, I would like to set the date automatically.

The command should be like: Date(Format:string,Offset:integer). Offset can be a positive of negative value, to indicate the days after (positive) or before (negative) today.

For example:

Write Date("dd-mmm-yyyy",10)

which should return the date tens days from now.

Problem with opening Notes search box (1 reply)

Karin Klimbold — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:04:59 -0500

Good Evening!

We are working on a script which requires finding notification mails within the inbox.

We want to use the search box which works perfect as long a we activate the inbox manually and run this code:

keypress key.ctrl+asc("e")   'opens search box
write "testmail"             'enters search term
keypress key.enter           'starts search

The problem is: This fails as soon as we add a command line which let AutoUser click on the inbox. The search box opens but the search field always remains empty. We have already tried to add a pause after opening the search box but this does not help as well.

Click "OutlineItem.Ordner Eingang" 
keypress key.ctrl+asc("e")   'opens search box
sleep 1                      'little pause which does not help
write "testmail"             'enters search term
keypress key.enter           'starts search

Clients used: German Notes 7.0.3 with AutoUser 1.1.746

Regards

Karin Klimbold

Auto User is not recognizing some of the objects in Lotus Notes (3 replies)

abhishek1502 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:30:23 -0500

Hi

Currently i am using Lotus Notes 8.5 Demo version.I am trying to send an email using Autouser through Lotus Notes .But Auto User is not able to identify some objects in Lotus Notes.
For Example when i am trying to capture the send button. It is giving the following error attached in the screenshot .

kindly provide me your valuable suggestion as how to workout with these kind of situations.

Thanks and Regards
Abhishek Sinha

email contact details (1 reply)

Des Boyle — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:05:00 -0500

Hi All,

I know that this isnt the correct place to post this message but could somebody send me your companys email address so I can send a query regarding purchasing. The internet filter at my place or work blocks me each time I try to send a query via your site...

Thanks
Des

Autouser tool is not recognizing Notes Calendar (1 reply)

KarThik — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:54:52 -0500

Hi downloaded this tool and tried automate the Notes 8.0.2 Calendar screen. When i hit the Capture button on the tool and go to notes, i am getting blue lines covering the objects and followed by the message in the tool as "Press Ctrl to capture..". I pressed Ctrl and then typed some words on the Subject. Then stopped the automation. I was routed to Auto User bif main screen after hitting back on the small dialog. In the big screen i am not getting the captured objects in the opened .vbs file.

Another question: Can we automate other applications using Auto User tool?

Thanks
-KarThik

Write to a local file (1 reply)

men — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:43:23 -0500

Hi,

how can I use WriteTo to write in a local file?

Kind regards
Maik

Demo Scripts for 8.5.1 (3 replies)

Howard Shevitz — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:56:30 -0400

Hello

I just upgraded my clients to 8.5.1. Doesn't look like your test scripts included in the download package support that yet. What's your status?

Howard

Problems with KeyPress and drop down boxes (3 replies)

marco — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:35:07 -0400

Hello,
I have tried AutoUser and had some problems with shortcuts in combination with drop down boxes. I use Lotus Notes 7.0.30 with AutoUser. What I want to do is to open the database open dialog and select a database from the drop down box. To open the drop down box I use the shortcut 'ALT+DOWN', but it didn't work. I added some sleeps to wait for the dialogs, but it doesn't help. Any suggestion what is wrong - my script or AutoUser. I attached my script and item container as a zip file.

~marco

New Version: Suggestions (1 reply)

AlexM — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:15:22 -0400

Hello

We have tested a beta release some months ago and haven't been able to use for our application. Now I have checked out the latest version and everything works fine!

So instead of a bug report I have just some ideas for new features / improvements I like to put forward:

1) I really want to have the ability to create a script with Ctrl ON, Ctrl OFF, Alt ON, ALT OFF and so on options.
Let me explain: let's say I want to click Actions -> Tools -> Preferences when I write a memo. If I create a script like this:

KeyPress Key.Alt+Asc("A")
KeyPress Key.Alt+Asc("T")
KeyPress Key.Alt+Asc("P")

It will not work because Alt will be pressed once more with eyery new line and the chain of commands will brake. So I want to have an ability to do it like this:

KeyPress Key.Alt+Asc("A")+Asc("T")+Asc("P")

KeyPress Key.Alt ON
KeyPress Asc("A")
KeyPress Asc("T")
KeyPress Asc("P")
KeyPress Key.Alt OFF

2) There are a lot of navigation items that are available for all applications. Like File menu commands, Edit commands and so on.

It will be very nice to have all this actions pre-defined by default in any new scripts, so I do not have to capture them manually any time I create a script. This will save a lot of time for any new script development.

3) Is it possible to enter values during script execution?
For example:
I need to perform an action on a document that I need to search in the view. I create a prompt or something like that in a script and it asks me "What are we searching for?"

I enter a key there, and a script than searches for this value in a view and than perform a set of actions on it. This will be nice to make some boring routine tasks automated without
writing a lotus notes agent.

Please let me know what you think about the ideas.

Regards,

Alex

Mysterious behaviour using notes functionalities (2 replies)

Krischan — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:27:28 -0400

Hi @ all,
it's me again :-) and I'm having a mysterious problem with AU and Notes!

We are trying to copy a Notes document to the clipboard with AU using Notes functionalities. Due to have several possibilities to do so we tried to copy the document using the menu actions of Notes. But unfortunately we always get an error message telling us that AU can't find the following items in the application.
Because of that we tried a different way to get the document copied using KeyPress and it worked without any problem.
Due to the fact we have to create different scripts to test all the possibilities which are available for an user we need both methods to copy documents and not only the working one.
As you can see in the example script you can reproduce this behaviour of notes by starting the script with "intExecution = 1" (this will work!) and "intExecution = 2" (this won't work!). The only condition is an yet opened database with at least one selected document.

Option Explicit

Dim intExecution

ItemContainer = "CopyTest_item_container.xml"
intExecution = 1

Select Case intExecution
	Case 1
		KeyPress Key.CTRL + Asc("c")
		Click "Menu.Datei"
		Click "Menu.Eigenschaften    Alt+Eingabe"
		WriteLog "Executed with value " & intExecution
	Case 2
		Click "Menu.Bearbeiten"
		Click "Menu.Kopieren    Strg+C"
		Click "Menu.Datei"
		Click "Menu.Eigenschaften    Alt+Eingabe"
		WriteLog "Executed with value " & intExecution
	Case Else
		WriteLog "Unexpected Execution!"
End Select

I'm sorry but this is a very urgent issue and we really need a bug fix on this.

Can not capture items! (5 replies)

adamch — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:25:45 -0400

Hi,

When i try to create a new script as "Jump start: Write your first script within two minutes" in help page, but i can not capture the items. The attachment is the snapshot.
I am so appreciated if you tell me what shall i do!
Many thanks!

Adam

Unpleasant problem with AutoNavigation (no replies)

Krischan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:35:33 -0400

Hi @ all,
on using the function AutoNavigation I found out a reproducable and unpleasant problem.
When I set AutoNavigation to True the appearance of the navigation frame of the used mail database will change. In the attached files you will find the optical result without using AutoNavigation (Screenshot#1.png) and with using it (Screenshot#2.png). And of course I was using the same script! ;-)
I think this is not a very urgent issue but it should be fixed later.

Error on using function RightClick (1 reply)

Krischan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:33:04 -0400

Hi there,
can you please check if I'm right because I think there is an error on using the function RightClick.
I tried to open the properties box of a mail document by using RightClick on a view item. First I captured the view item with Find text and then I captured the context menu item "Eigenschaften: Dokument". The capturing has been done properly. So I wrote the following script:

RightClick "Text.Testmail 01 (Mime)"
Click "Menu.Eigenschaften: Dokument"

But when executing the script I always got an error message telling me

Quote
Error 80004005 (65, 1), Can not find item "Menu.Eigenschaften: Dokument" in the application: (null)

After that I tried to record the actions with AU but the result was the same.

RightClick "LineViewOutlineItem.Nachricht Christian Kl�mper   Testmail 01 (Mime) 02.07.2009 13:27 46K B�roklammernsymbol"
Click "Menu.Eigenschaften: Dokument.1"

Thanks in advance.

Missing keycode in function KeyPress (no replies)

Krischan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:28:03 -0400

Hi @ all,
I think there is a keycode missing for another special key: the space bar. It works by using a string like KeyPress " " but I think the script will be more readable when using a keycode.

New command to switch in single step mode (3 replies)

Krischan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:43:17 -0500

Hi,
due to our voluminous scripts :-) it would be nice to have a function to interrupt the running script and to switch the execution mode to single step execution. That will give us the chance to control critical parts step by step inside the script. Maybe it is possible to switch back to normal mode with the same function (e.g. Script.Debug True and Script.Debug False).

Properties window looses focus (2 replies)

Krischan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:07:09 -0400

Hi @ all,
when capturing items inside the properties dialog window the items seem to be captured correctly. But when using them in the script the dialog box seems to loose the focus (when having the focus the box is in dark grey, without focus the box is in white color). Due to that all Clicks will not work because the items will not be found, e.g. the listbox item Document on top of the box.
This issue should be fixed shortly because at the moment we couldn't go on. For further scripting we need some field information of documents without opening the documents.

visible() sometimes fails - no pattern (2 replies)

Manuel Gomez — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:29:31 -0400

Hello !

I write script for doing search in Inbox. When checking status of navigation bar with using visible() it most time works but sometimes delivers wrong "false".

Click "OutlineItem.Mail"
If not visible("LineViewOutline.Inbox ") then
	Click "OutlineItem.Folder Inbox"
End if

Do you have any idea about it ?

Regards

Manuel Gomez

Function TextOf (4 replies)

Krischan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:49:30 -0400

Good morning,
it's me again :-)
I think I found another issue in AU concerning the function TextOf(item). I tried to read the content of a static text field but it returns only an empty string. As I know there are some not yet published fixes I guess this error is already done.
If it is not like this you can reproduce the behaviour with the mask I sent a few days ago. And the field you can find on the tab Eigenschaften and it is titled as DB-Titel:.

Capturing checkboxes (2 replies)

Krischan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:25:27 -0400

Hi @ all and good morning,

today I've got the problem again on capturing and using checkboxes and their values.

I can capture the item and it will be found correctly. I can use this item in my scripts. But when running the script and using the function Checked(item) Notes will hang up immediately and it will crash! :-( In the past it worked fine but I know there has been an update concerning this feature and now it doesn't work!

I hope you can reproduce this error or behaviour with help of the mask I sent you a few days ago. The checkbox items which don't work can be found on the tab Eigenschaften. The values are Aktiviert and Deaktiviert.

It is not so urgent to be fixed because I can rem this part in our scripts and check the values by my own. But nevertheless it should be fixed in the next few days.
Thanks for now

ShowUp "Switching to..." (1 reply)

Krischan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:36:32 -0400

Hello Lucius,
due to the fact we are using 10 different script files at the moment (specially a script file for variable definitions and classes (!)) AU displays a ShowUp with "Switching to [...]" each time it switches to another script. Inside this definition script there are a few classes and so there many properties. Due to this AU switches very very often between the scripts! But when showing this information the script interrupts for about one or two seconds and therefor the execution of our scripts takes a very long time.
And it's boring to see always this "Switching to [...]" :-)
Is it possible to set this feature to be enabled or not by the "Settings.ini" of AU?
It would be very helpful and would increase the execution of AU scripts...

Script.CurrentFolder (2 replies)

Krischan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:42:58 -0400

Hi again ;-)
I'm not sure but I think in the past the AU function Script.CurrentFolder returned the full path to the current folder where the script is saved in. Today the function only returns the name of the folder without any parent folder or driveletter... :-(
This is an urgent issue because we are using several selfmade functions using this information (e.g. creating log files) and all of them are not working anymore.
If the function was modified so it only returns the name of the current folder without driveletter etc. we have to modify our scripts but if it is another "feature" (sorry! ;-] ) it would be nice to have it fixed again like before. Thanks.

Using variables II (2 replies)

Krischan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:35:19 -0400

Hi @ all,
I think I just found another issue to be solved in AU when using variables in several script files. To explain what is happening I've created three script files:
Script01.vbs

Option Explicit

Script.Include "Script02.vbs"   ' just a public statement inside
Script.Include "Script03.vbs"   ' contains the function

ShowUp MyFunction, 2

Script02.vbs

Public intMyVar, intMyResult

Script03.vbs

Option Explicit

Public Function MyFunction
	intMyResult = 0
	For intMyVar = 1 to 10
		intMyResult = intMyResult + intMyVar
	Next
	MyFunction = intMyResult
End Function

When executing the first script there will occure an error telling (sorry, but it is a german error text)

Quote
Error 800a01f5 (5, 2), Ung�ltige Zuweisung: 'intMyVar': (null)

The script will be executed without any error messages when redefining the variable intMyVar additionally inside the function like this:

Option Explicit

Public Function MyFunction
	Dim intMyVar
	intMyResult = 0
	For intMyVar = 1 to 10
		intMyResult = intMyResult + intMyVar
	Next
	MyFunction = intMyResult
End Function

Am I right that there is a bug inside or is there something I have not regarded?