What is a Click Step?

What is a Click Step?

 

Understanding Click Steps in Automation: A Beginner's Guide

Have you ever wondered what a click step is in the world of automation? Let's dive into the concept and see how it can streamline your processes.

Exploring Click Steps in Web Automation

To grasp the essence of a click step, let's walk through a simple automation scenario. Imagine starting a new web automation journey without the need for cookies. As you navigate through the automation interface, you encounter the pivotal element - the click step.

Defining the Click Step

In essence, a click step allows you to trigger actions within the browser interface. Whether it's clicking a button, typing in a field, or hovering over an element, the click step empowers you to interact with web elements seamlessly.

Recording a Click Step

Let's illustrate this with an example: initiating a click step on the "store" button. By instructing the automation tool to record the click, you visually confirm the element selection and proceed with the action. The visual cues, such as the green border highlighting the target element, ensure precision in your automation workflow.

Validating the Click Step

After selecting the desired element, confirming the action is crucial. Once you verify the element selection and intention to click, a simple confirmation step finalizes the click action. This validation ensures that the automation tool accurately captures your instructions.

Implementing Click Steps: A Practical Walkthrough

In practice, incorporating click steps in your automation scripts can enhance efficiency and accuracy. By seamlessly interacting with web elements, you streamline repetitive tasks and increase workflow productivity.

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Steps

Step 1- Click on new Automation

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Step 2- Go to Web option and click on it

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Step 3- On prompt window type google.com and Save go to URL to record step

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Step 4 – Record a click step by clicking, click there. Then after we do the click on Store, we will confirm that step

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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

So to go over what a click step is, I'm going to go ahead and start a new automation. This is going to be a web automation, and then I'm not going to use cookies here.

Now that we have a window open and we have the left tray window over, over here to add our steps, I'm going to start my automation off at google. com.

Then here we'll see an option on the left, which is a click step, which is what we were going to go over today. The click step is something that we can use to perform some sort of action. In the browser that we're looking at. So we might want to click something. We might want to type something. We might want to hover over something.

All of these are different types of steps that we may want to use. In this example, I'm going to click the store button. So I'm going to record a click step by clicking, click there. Then inside of the window, we'll see. Now that we have the instruction to click on the element that we want to record. Then after we do the click, we will confirm that step.

So here I'm going to click into the window so that we see the green border tracing what we're going to click on. Then I'm going to click store since that's what I want to do. Then we'll see this confirm button pops up as well as this found element text telling us that it found what we'd want to click.

So I'll go ahead and click confirm here. And now we have that step added to our automation.

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