If I click in the Distill macro function on that yellow field and then insert the text in the right “type” field of the macro, it doesn’t work, i.e. it doesn’t appear in the search field but it also does not turn the greyed out letters on the search bottom (in the screenshot marked with blue borders) black, most likely because it doesn’t appear in the search field.
The text doesn’t appear already at the first time because I’m unable to post it in the search box.
Yes, it was pasted. I need to paste quite a number of texts (also in the future) to use Distill because I have to monitor many foreign websites, which either require letters that are not on my English keyboard or have a completely different script, for example Greek, this cyrillic website or Asian characters.
So to be to paste appears to be important, I’m not sure, really how to get around that.
Right now the recorder doesn’t recognise pasting-text as an action, thus the action doesn’t get recorded. Recorder also doesn’t recognise non-English characters.
solution:
Type an English phrase in the search box, so that the Type action gets recorded.
Proceed further by performing other actions that you want to record.
Once you have recorded all steps, go back to the Type step with the placeholder English phrase. Edit the step and replace the English phrase with the non-English phrase by pasting. Save the step.
Save the macro.
Now, you can replay the macro and it should enter the non-English phrase during Type step.
I can do a lot of things but certainly don’t know how to import a macro. I don’t see that under Macros. I see an import button, which after hitting asks me to post it there but I don’t see that your macro that you created for me (thx) has any of these endings JSON or CSV.
