User Guide :    Hotornot Robot :    Concept

1. Robot and Path
   A robot is a set of path. Path is independent to each other. A good example to understant this: A robot just like a servent, and a path is the thing that the servent knows, such as submit resume to hotjob, click yes in hotornot.com. So after you name your robot, the very first thing is create a path.
   
   
2. Path and Action
   
   A path is a set of actions, an action is one step of the path. In order to submit rusume online, you should go to the website, and login in, and search ..., each step is an action. Each action is associated with a web page item, that is to say, each actio does something to its web page. You assign a page item to an action when you click one of the following radio button.
   
   
   
3. Page Item
   We have 8 types of page item.
   1. Url page: a static url. use it when you know the url is static, won't change. such as the login page url
   2. A description: a text area in the web page.
   3. A logon form: input account name and password
   4. A search form: other forms
   5. A link: a dynamic link in the page
   6. A Click: a dynamic click in the page, even an link implemented by java script, suggest use this instead of a link
   7. A frame: for multi-frames page, it catches the frame.
   8. A list of links: same type of links, such as the job results get by search
   
   
   
4. Property of Action
   
   You can right click an action to set its property. We have two properties now.
   1. Repeat, set it to repeat forever or repeat number of times, then robot will repeat the action.
   2. Do action when page change, set it if you want the robot does the action only when page is different than it visit last time.
   
   
   
5. Form
   If the page Item is a form, you should get the input value, so that robot knows what to submit. Following is the the action you can do.