Recorder View/Applications Pane

The Recorder View for Robots or the Applications pane for Basic Engine Robots is located under the Robot view in the Robot Editor.

Recorder View (Robots )

Shows tabs with open application windows and a tree with available elements. You can select elements in the interface or select images and insert steps by right-clicking the selected element or image. The bottom part of the Recorder View shows the coordinates of the mouse relative to the top left corner of the application window as well as the live streaming status of the device state. For more information, see Edit Robot.

Applications Pane (Basic Engine Robots )

In the Applications pane, you can see a part of the current robot state: the part of the robot state that has to do with loaded pages. The state shown is the input state to the current step. In the Applications pane, you see the Page views of the windows in the current robot state. When loading from a URL, several windows may be opened, each containing a page. The current window is marked with an orange box.

If the opened page contains non-HTML content, you can preview the page depending on the type of the content. Use the Preview button to change the type of the content. You can preview CSV, JSON, text, Excel, XML, and Binary content and apply steps to them.

If you use the Classic browser engine, for each window, the Page view is split into several sub views depending on the type of the page. For example, if the loaded page is an HTML page, the Page view has sub views. There are five types of pages: HTML, XML, JSON, Excel and Binary. HTML and Binary use the same view and the other page types use their own specialized Page views.

To view XML content with the applied XSLT transformation in the Applications view, select Configure Robot > Basic tab. Click Configure next to Default Options, navigate to the Legacy tab, select Classic loading in the Format Handling setting and clear the Convert XML to HTML option.

To see the Cookies view of the state of the current step, you can open the Cookies window from the View menu. Cookies are added to this list as the robot loads web pages that use cookies.

Similarly, you can open the Authentications window from the View menu to see the authentications of the current state.