I am working on a macro that will run after a monitor detects a change. Testing the macro, the browser tab opens without cookies. My question is: can I associate a profile with my macro? Or, if I have the monitor use a profile, will the macro also run with that profile? (I am using the iOS app or the Chrome extension.)
Macro actions work for a local monitor – when pages are checked using your browser/desktop app. As I understand, you have recorded a macro that clicks on the cookie pop-up to save cookie preference. But when the page opens in your browser, the cookie pop-up does not display. Here are the options that will work for your case:
- You can remove corresponding steps from Macro that perform clicks on the cookie pop-up and save it.
- You can add the cookie part in the conditional
if else...block. Check out how to add a condition for more information onif else..block.
I see my problem now. I did not realize that even though I was using the iOS app to run my monitors, the browser used for recording and testing macros uses a Distill cloud server. I see that once I associate my macro with a monitor it will run on the iOS app and not use the cloud server.
Yes, you are right. Macro recording happens on the Distill server in the cloud.
Local monitors cannot run on mobile devices (iOS and Android apps). However, they can run locally using your browser with Distill’s browser extension or in Distill’s desktop app.