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Recording additional steps to macro
Each macro recording can be modified in many ways. One option is to record additional steps. This avoids having to re-record the entire macro if we just wanted to add to it. This feature can be useful for example if:
In both cases there are three ways to add steps to the macro – record, manual adding and adding from the debugging tool. The first one is the simplest solution because it is the former, as it proceeds in the same way as a standard macro recording. In this article you will learn how to record additional steps to a macro one by one.
To locate exactly where you want to add the next step, go to the Advanced View by clicking the third icon in the top left corner of the tool.
In the Advanced View you can see all the steps of your macro, arranged from top to bottom. Find the step after which you want to add another and right-click on it. From the context menu, select the “Record steps after this step” button.
As you can see in the image below, after pressing the button, the application will execute all the steps of the macro up to the one we selected, and then the Recording will start. Then, proceed as you would during normal macro recording, i.e. perform additional actions that will be added to the previously created steps.
Once you have added all the scheduled steps, stop recording with the Stop button in the app. The same as during standard recording.
After stopping the recording, the application will ask you if you want to continue playing the remaining steps.
If you want to continue playing the macro e.g. to check the correctness of the operation with the added steps, select “Yes”. Otherwise, click “No”.
The new steps will be highlighted in the list in the Advanced View as a new block “Appended steps”. This gives you a clear overview of which actions we have added at any given time.
So much for recording additional steps. Check also:
How to manually add steps?
How to append steps with the debugging tool?
