Automating date controls can be tricky. I suggest to use computer vision for this. In the macro below I
- open the date selector
- limit the computer vision area to the date control area
- let Kantu find and click the number for the date e. g. “22” or “17” with XClick | OCR=text
Here is a screencast of the macro running:
The cal1.png to limit the search area is:
Macro code:
{
"Name": "Date Control Automation",
"CreationDate": "2019-3-22",
"Commands": [
{
"Command": "open",
"Target": "http://ems.rs/page.php?kat_id=260",
"Value": ""
},
{
"Command": "store",
"Target": "rus",
"Value": "!OCRlanguage"
},
{
"Command": "XClick",
"Target": "ocr=Дан",
"Value": ""
},
{
"Command": "comment",
"Target": "Area top left corner = bottom left corner of found image ",
"Value": ""
},
{
"Command": "visualAssert",
"Target": "cal1.png",
"Value": ""
},
{
"Command": "storeEval",
"Target": "${!imagex}-${!imagewidth}/2",
"Value": "x1"
},
{
"Command": "storeEval",
"Target": "${!imagey}-${!imageheight}/2",
"Value": "y1"
},
{
"Command": "comment",
"Target": "Area bottom right corner",
"Value": ""
},
{
"Command": "storeEval",
"Target": "${!imagex}+${!imagewidth}/2",
"Value": "x2"
},
{
"Command": "storeEval",
"Target": "${!imagey}+${!imageheight}/2",
"Value": "y2"
},
{
"Command": "echo",
"Target": "x1=${x1}, y1=${y1}, x2=${x2}, y2=${y2}",
"Value": "blue"
},
{
"Command": "visionLimitSearchArea",
"Target": "area=${x1},${y1},${x2},${y2}",
"Value": ""
},
{
"Command": "XClick",
"Target": "ocr=[22]",
"Value": ""
}
]
}
Update 2024: RPA V9.2.0 and newer: We improved the text search and introduced wildcard support (* and ?). Now the search behaves like a standard text search on Windows. The default text match mode is exact match: “OCRSearch | day” matches “day” but not “today” or “yesterday’s”. For a partial text match use *day*. So OCRSearch | *day* matches “day” and also “today” and “yesterday’s”.
=> In the demo macro above you need to replace
XClick |ocr=[22]
with
XClickText | 22