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Overview of creating Extract actions

This topic provides an overview of creating Extract actions during flow recording.

You can create Extract actions during flow recording or during screen operations recording, with somewhat different results (see Comparison of results: Flow recording and screen operations recording).

You can have multiple Extract actions for the same application screen, and you can have Extract actions and Insert actions for the same application screen.

There are two separate but similar user interfaces for creating Extract actions: the Select Variable window for creating Extract actions and the Create Multiple Extract Actions window.

Table 1 shows the features available in each of these windows:
Table 1. Features of Extract actions
Features: Create a Single Extract Action (Select Variable window) The Create Multiple Extract Actions window:
Create one or more Extract actions for an application screen. Each Extract action reads text from a field of the application screen and stores the text into a String variable. X X
Easily create multiple Extract actions for an application screen. Each Extract action reads text from a field of the application screen and stores the text into a String variable.   X
Create an Extract action that reads text from a rectangular area of the application screen and stores it into a String variable or into an array of String variables. X  
Create an Extract action that, within a recorded loop, stores the extracted text either into the same instance or into a separate instance of the selected variable in each iteration of the loop. X X
Notice that:


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