Capture
How to start recorder
- Start from Visual Studio Code LOCATORS tab
- Start capture in Visual Studio Code CLOUD LOCATORS tab
- Start by pressing hotkey
Ctrl+F10
Capture methods
Clicknium provides three recording methods:
- single capture
- continuous capture
- image capture.
Remarks:
- The new recorded locator will be added into current selected locator store.
Select capture technology and advanced option
We can select the capture technology and the advanced option with each capture method. For more information, please refer to Capture Technology and Capture Advanced Option.
Single capture
- Select UI element
Along the mouse moving, it will highlight the UI element and show its position on recorder panel. - Press
Ctrl + click
- Click the button
Complete
Continuous capture
- Operate for multiple times by "Selecting UI element and Pressing
Ctrl + click
" to add more locators - Click the button
Complete
on recorder panel
Image capture
- Select a UI element
- Press
Shift
and select an area of the element with the mouse - Validate image locators as below:
- Click the button
Complete
on recorder panel
Capture technology
The supporting capture technologies are as follows UIA
, IA
, Java
, IE
, Chrome
, Firefox
, Edge
and SAP
.
The default technology is Auto Detect
, which means the recorder will automatically select the technology.
For web UI element, you can choose IE
, Chrome
, Firefox
or Edge
capture technology according to your browser type.
For SAP application, you can choose SAP
capture technology.
For Java application, you can choose Java
capture technology.
For window UI element, you can choose UIA
or IA
capture technology.
Capture advanced option
Default advanced option is None
. When recording web UI element, you can also select XPath to generate an XPath string.