I'm using FinalBuilder6 to try and automate a task that someone performs every night which involves them connecting to a terminal server, execute a program, enter credentials and files get downloaded.
What I have done so far is:
I execute mstsc to connect to the terminal server
I click on the message box before the login box
I click in the field for the user name
Those things all work fine. The next step I have is to send keyboard input to type in the user name. To set this up I click on the "Click Here to find a control in a running application" to select the control where I want to type and on the keyboard input tab I have test being typed. When this step runs I get a message in the build log saying "Object reference not set to an instance of an object".
Anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
On a related note is there any way to do the GUI Automation in such a way that does not require me to select the target on every step. My vision is that I set an object variable to the target application then I can just sent keyboard input to that object.
Which version of windows and terminal service client are you using. I Just tested this and it worked fine and logged me into the remote machine. This may be a timing related issue though. I had to include a pause after executing mstsc, and after clicking on the connect button I added a Wait for Window to find the user name field before attempting to provide the user name.
Having gotten past that, I hit a road block… it’s seems it’s not possible (at least with FinalBuilder) to automate windows inside a remote desktop window. The windows api calls we use to find windows and child windows does not work for remote desktops.
Saeed, it’s not a website I’m trying to login to rather it a location application on the server that does not support command line arguments.
Vincent, I am using Windows 2003 as both the target of the TS connection and from the client side of the automation. I have gotten to the point that I can login to the terminal server but like you I have run into an issue with being able to control the child window.