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Create Your First Metabot

Scenario

1. Navigate to https://www.unitconverters.net/length/cm-to-inches.htm.

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2. Enter ‘12’ in ‘From’ textbox.
3. Get the value from ‘To’ textbox.
4. Display it in message box.

Create A Bot

1. Asset
2. Logic

Create Asset

1. Open internet explorer browser and open https://www.unitconverters.net/length/cm-to-inches.htm(Please make sure that zoom is 100%).
2. Click on ‘New MetaBot’ button.

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3. Following window will appear

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4. Enter ‘MetaBot Name’, select ‘Internet Explorer’ and click on ‘Create’ button.
5. Metabot Designer’ window will come. In the window, click on ‘Add Screen’.

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6. A window will appear to select the screen. Click on the required window

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7. A screen gets added into ‘Assets’ tab.

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Create A Logic

1. Click on the ‘Logic’ tab.
2. Click on ‘Add Logic’

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3. A window will open to add logic

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In the above screen shot, you can see the screen on the right-hand side.


4. Go to the screen and click on ‘From’ textbox.

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Red border around the textbox signifies that you have selected the textbox.


5. Once you click on it, a pop-up window will appear to select the action.

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Here I will


1. Select action as ‘SetText’
2. Enter ‘12’
3. Click on ‘Add’
6. Similarly, select ‘To’ and add following action

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In the above window, I am getting the value of InnerText property and put it into clipboard.


7. Click on ‘Add’
8. Finally display the value of clipboard in message box

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All the actions you have created will be added in ‘Action List’



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9. Finally save the logic using the ‘Save’ button

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Running The Metabot

1. Open a task bot.
2. Drag and drop a metabot from the metabot tab.

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3. Run the task bot. You will get following output.

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