In this tour let us see how to load data using HTML Forms
Data Loader (HDL).
Step 1
To begin with first start HDL by clicking on the HTML
Forms Data Loader icon, you will get a window like this
Now you can either open a
existing file which you saved earlier to load the data, or you can click the
Capture button to Record fields of a new Web Based form. Let's click
"Capture" button to capture items of a new HTML Form.
Step 2
Once you click Capture button, the
built-in HDL Web Browser will open as shown below. Here type the URL
of the website and click Go. After the page is loaded. Click
"Start Recording" Button and HDL will start recording your
navigation.
To enter data into Customer Form
we have to click the "Customer Registration" link and then you
will get Customers Registration Form. Let's click
Customer Registration Link. After you click the "Customer
Registration Link you will see Customer Page as shown below,
enter a sample customer data by filling the values in Customer
ID, Company Name etc., by using "TAB" key or clicking through
mouse.
As you enter the data into fields
and clicks links or buttons, the HDL starts recording those
items. Please Note the Spreadsheet in the top section which
shows the recorded items.
After you finished entering all
the fields, now to save the customer record you have to click
"Submit" button. Then you will see a Thank you page which
confirms that customer data is saved.
That's It! now click the "Stop
Recording" button and then click "Finish" button.
Step 3
After you click "Finish"
button, the browser will close and HDL has captured all the
items and shows the items in the spreadsheet as shown below. If
the Form Item is a List Box or Radio Option HDL will show it as
a Combo Box with all the predefined values as can be seen for
Region and Countries Items. If it is a Check Box Item it will be
shown as check box item in spreadsheet.
Optionally, If you want, you can also add
forms items, in case they have not been captured or add
keystroke, Data, Time Delay, Link columns. To add columns just
click the Right mouse button in the column where you want to
insert the new column. However, in this tour we will not add any
items since we don't require any.
Now populate this spreadsheet
by directly writing into the spreadsheet or importing data from
any CSV file or Excel Sheet or copy and paste the data from any
other
sheet. Let us enter some sample data in the spreadsheet as shown
below.
Step 4
After you have entered the data
click the Load Button. Then, you will get a Load Data
Window and HDL built in browser will automatically navigate to
the first page in which you started recording as shown below.
Note: If the Form page does not directly
open and shows an error, Then it must be because the website requires you to logon first.
To logon type the URL of logon page and
enter the username and password and then navigate to the
Form page and then Click Start loading button once the Form in
which you want to load the data is visible.
To Start Filling this form with
the data which we entered in the spreadsheet click the Start
Loading Button in the Toolbar. When you click this button HDL
will show a dialog as shown below.
In this dialog you can choose the
speed with which data should be loaded into Web page and also
specify Error Control. That is, what should be done if a field
is not found in the page and so on.. for details about this
dialog please refer to other sections of the help.
Now for the sake of this demo
don't change anything and just click "OK" button and watch the
playback.
After loading is over HDL will
mark the rows with Green for those rows which were loaded
successfully and Red Color for those rows which got errors and
were not loaded successfully. So that next time you can skip
successful rows and load only unsuccessful rows.
After loading is over you can
close the Load Data window and save the spreadsheet for future
use. The files will be saved with "*.hdl"
extension
If again afterwards you want to load
the data in the same Form. Just open the saved file and populate the
spreadsheet with new data if require and click the Start Loading button.
This tour just shows you
a simple way to load data in HTML forms. In fact, you can also use
Macros (keystrokes) along with HTML Forms items to load the data in
complex HTML Forms. To see how this works see the Demo 2 by clicking
Demo Button in
the toolbar.
