I understand your confusion now, since you are a long time iMacros user: iMacros does not have a desktop automation mode at all! iMacros supports only web automation.
When in Browser Mode, Ui.Vision works like iMacros, including recording. For your purposes just ignore the desktop automation feature.
In desktop mode recording is not supported. So if you would need to automate a desktop app (e. g. Microsoft Word or automate a browser extension itself), then you need to build the macro step by step by using the computer-vision XClick and the text-recogntion XClickText commands.
But from your emails I know that you need to automate a regular website.
→ So the solution is to switch from desktop automation mode to web automation mode.
How to switch to Browser Automation (this enables macro recording):
