Taking value stored on clipboard and putting it into a variable
Hi, I have a robotic automation that looks at data on a webpage. There is a button on the page, that when clicked, stores the value of a field into the Clipboard.
I need to get that value into a variable, for further use. Is this possible?
Many thanks.
Paul
Accepted Solution
Updated: 1 Mar 2021 7:43 EST
Pegasystems Inc.
GB
Hi Paul,
If the text is placed in the Windows clipboard by the button. I think you could use System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.GetText https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms.clipboard.gettext?view=net-5.0 to get the value using a script and put it in a variable.
Did you try that?
Cheers,
Angel
Nationwide Building Society
GB
Hi Angel - no,not a Pega website. Basically, though, it could be any web page or application even.
In this case though I have a webpage with a field on it. I cannot seem to interrogate in the normal way, but the field does have a button linked to it that copies the current value of that field to the clipboard. So, on clicking that button, is there a way to past the value to a variable (ideally) or how would I copy it to an cell in Excel?
Hope that all makes some sense. Cheers
Paul
Accepted Solution
Updated: 1 Mar 2021 7:43 EST
Pegasystems Inc.
GB
Hi Paul,
If the text is placed in the Windows clipboard by the button. I think you could use System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.GetText https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms.clipboard.gettext?view=net-5.0 to get the value using a script and put it in a variable.
Did you try that?
Cheers,
Angel
Nationwide Building Society
GB