Hi. Does anyone have an idea how to use TerminalSession activity to return data from some fileds on the screen:
What vaules should I fill forms below with:
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Hey @okalinic,
Configure Terminal Session with host, port, TN3270, Telnet, IBM 3278-2 (24x80), encoding IBM037, then use Get Text or Get Field to read data.
Tutorial:
You can use Terminal Activities by Installling UiPath.Terminal.Activities and also you can use UiAutomation Activities like Get Text
Cheers
Thank you, but can you show me some examples of using that package?
How can I set it up?
You can use any of these as per the use Actually I don’t have any sessions to connect and show you
Steps:
- Configure the connection and connect the session
- Use Find Text or Get Text at Position
Or You can use Use Application/Browser and indicate the Terminal then use Get Text to extract the Text store into variable and use
generally cobol apps run on a terminal..if it is same with you go through this kb article for details
if not then try to indicate using aa mode in the ui explorer or while indicating click f4 it changes mode and you need to be in active accessibility mode
cheers
In our case we access the mainframe app via terminal emulator running in remote desktop.
So we use “screenshot” function of the terminal emulator to get screen text into clipboard and then process data from clipboard.
Cheers
Ok, I used Take Screenshot activity, bu don’to know how to get text from it.
Do you have any idea on that issue?
Most of the time you you will use “get text from position”.
AS400 for instance uses codes for different screens, not sure about cobol but thats how we would check we were on the correct screens etc
