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Setting the Recorder Window

Setting General Recording Options

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For example, if your prefix for a script is

Script

Script1

is the default script

name for the first script you record,

Script2

is the default script name for the

second script you record, and so on.

During recording, when you are prompted to define a script or session name, you
can accept the default name, modify it, or change it completely.

Optionally, you can leave either or both of these boxes blank, so that session and
script names consist of the names that you define during recording.

Names can have a maximum of 40 characters. Consequently, the maximum length
of a prefix is 40 characters, less the number of digits in the numeric suffix of the last
script or session that you recorded.

Start Application

To have Robot prompt you to start the client after you begin recording, select

Prompt

for application name on start recording

With API recording, you must start the client after you begin the recording process,
when Robot prompts you to do so. As a result, the

Prompt for application name on

start recording

check box is disabled with API recording.

With network or proxy recording, you can start the client before or after you begin
recording. However, connection information is sometimes lost if you start the
application before you begin recording. We recommend that you start the
application after you begin recording.

If you start the client after you begin recording, you can have Robot prompt you to
start the client, or you can start it without being prompted (for example, if the client
is running on a computer different from Robot).

A custom recorder recognizes the Start Application check box only if it is configured
to do so.

Setting the Recorder Window

The Session Recorder window displays information about client requests and server
responses as they occur during a recording session. This window appears
automatically when you begin recording.

The following check boxes in the

Recording Window

group box set a variety of

options for the Session Recorder window:

Minimize on start recording

Select this check box to minimize the Session Recorder

window when you start recording. Clear this check box to display the window in a
normal state.