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Third Party Application Task

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In Infoveave the user can setup task to interact with the third party application and run the action. The third party applications tasks generally includes the 

Create a Thrid Party Application Interaction Task

Steps to set up an thrid party application interaction task.

  1. To create any thrid party application interaction task select Task from Automation Tasks .
  2. Click New to setup a new task.  
  1. Pick the thrid party application interaction task you like to instate, from the drop-down list.

You may configure the task setting either as a plain text or in JSON format.

API Task

Infoveave support API Task. API task is executed by providing a task name, a method from the dropdown or you execute API task by giving URL. API tasks include both external and internal APIs. 

  1. To create new Tasks, click New. Select the task type from drop-down list and click Ok.
  2. Based on your action, select HTTP request type from drop-down list. Infoveave supports six different request type. These are:
    • GET
    • POST
    • PUT
    • PATCH
    • DELETE
    • Custom APIs
  1. Click on  for respective Headers and URL parameters. Click Delete  if you want to remove from the tabular view.
  2. Click Test to run the API with your configuration. After running it, you will receive output in preview table.
  3. Click Save to save API task.  

Custom Task

Infoveave custom plugin task gives you an option to work with a custom task which supports programming languages such as C, C#, and others to schedule your jobs and tasks.

  1. To create new Tasks, click New. Select the task type from drop-down list and click Ok.
  2. After selecting custom plugin option as task, enter the task name and select task name from drop-down list.
    • Each task contains some code that will be displayed in body area. If you want to write any custom script, you can use the body area.

  1. After this, click Save to create custom plugin as a task.

Web Application Automation Task

Infoveave offers a Web application automation task that helps you to automate the tedious, repetitive tasks on the internet browser with fewer errors. You can do your human-inference processes like browse tasks or testing, scrape data, or fill forms.

Choose the Task

  1. To create new Tasks, click New. Select the web application automation option as task, from drop-down list and click Ok.
  2. Enter the task name and fill up all keys such as start URL, browser, arguments, actions.
    • Each web application task consists of some form of subtasks or events. These keys help you to organize the entire task with these steps.
  1. Enter the webpage link as a starting URL.
    • This will be your main webpage from where you will start the automation task.
  1. Select the browser from the drop-down list.
  2. Click   to add parameters.
    • You can assign values to each individual parameters and call these parameters in action whenever you need that certain values.
  1. Click   to add actions.
    • Each action defines individual event in the webpage. Select the action type with their values and add to view in the tabular form.
    • Click on the
      respective  icon to remove parameters or actions from the list.
  • Infoveave offers four different options in action. These are:
    • Click: It performs the click action on id mentioned in the list.
    • Input-Text: It is used to enter text on the text field on the webpage.
    • Wait: It is used to wait/pause the entire process for some time.
    • Script: It is used to include custom script which will get executed while executing a task.
  • In Action section,
    • Column Type defines the type of action on the webpage.
    • Column Selectors specify id of the component where action will happen like textbox’s id or button’s id.
    • Value contains the data which will be going to be entered on the webpage.
  1. Define one more action click with id to sign in to the account.
  2. Click Edit to change the configuration of web application automation task.
  3. Click Share to share task with other users.
  4. Click Delete to delete the task from the existing list.

  • Ex: Consider you want to login to facebook account. In this example, first enter the webpage link which you want to visit, https://www.facebook.com/login/.

    In facebook login page, actions help you to enter the login credential. Using inspect elements, get textbox’s id and enter credentials to log in.

Execute Command Task

Infoveave offers Execute command task that helps you to execute operations in the server using a command.

  1. To create new Tasks, click New. Select the Execute command from drop-down list and click Ok.
  2. After selecting execute command option as task, enter the task name.
    • There are two keys such as commands and parameters. Enter the values for them based on your needs.
  1. Click Save to create execute command as a task. It will display all other types of existing tasks.
  2. After creating a task, click Execute  to start executing the task.
    • You will receive a pop-up notification once task will get finish.
  1. Click Edit  to change the configuration of What-If execution task.
  2. Click Share  to share task with other users.
  3. Click Delete  to delete the task from the existing list.