Hi,
I would like to ask if this possible to implement with Distill ?
We’ve got a gwt-based web site with authorization (first login in another site and redirects to the actual one with auth cookies).
We would like to monitor changes on some table column and receive notifications on the gwt-based web app.
For a notification, we need to be able to:
refresh the page without reloading the page (single-page application), but instead by pressing the refresh button that’s part of the portal UI
detect changes on the data table column. Notification system should read the new data entry, and notify us when the entry contains some value.
Hello @slisnychyi, welcome to the community forum! It looks like you are looking for a solution that combines two things into one: cookies for authentication + macros for automating actions. Is it a hard requirement that the page must not be reloaded? This could be something that we don’t support along with macros yet.
But when we are reloading page, auth cookies are stay at least on local machine. So, i think it should not be a problem or am i wrong (when auth cookies will expire i probably need to change them manually) ?
Can i somehow test this macros and see if it would work in my case without buying professional subscription for this test ?
Profiles are used to save cookies for webpages visually. If the website uses cookies for authentication, then it should work.
Macros are used to visually record and later replay those actions. It can be used to click buttons and links to get to the monitored page.
These two can potentially be combined to do what you need. On related note, we will support macros for local monitors in the near future. I think that it will make monitoring such pages very convenient.
We don’t have a free trial of the Professional plan right now.
Unless there is something fancy happening, it should be possible. We support custom delay as a step in macros. It could help in case one need to wait for a few seconds for the page to load.
On related note, we will support macros for local monitors in the near future
So, you there’s macros setup only for cloud version for now ?
Unless there is something fancy happening, it should be possible. We support custom delay as a step in macros. It could help in case one need to wait for a few seconds for the page to load.
As i understand distill.io tracks elements by XPath by selecting elements on the page, but as this is dynamic thing that we don’t know position for now and as well could have pagination in this table as well.
Should it work with such cases ?